Early awareness enables quick action. Discovering issues before they become problems and being the first to know important information is always advantageous – especially when you can intervene early or turn insight into opportunity. When the information you need for early discovery is drawn from multiple sources and is derived from analytical processes, the speed and accuracy of that information and the accompanying analysis are dependent on the technology that delivers it.

Businesses improve their transactions

Business Intelligence (BI) and other data-driven applications have helped businesses improve transactions and manage massive data volumes. Many companies rely on BI to provide a composite view of enterprise data as a framework for making well-informed business decisions. .

Data volumes explodes, global markets move faster

But as global markets move faster, data volume explodes and data buried in documents, emails, blogs, web sites, etc., becomes increasingly important, companies are bumping up against the limits of these data-centric applications, which offer limited or no access to the enormous realm of information locked in various content repositories.

Improve the value of existing BI

Unified Information Access (UIA) is emerging as a core technology for dramatically improving the value of existing BI and data applications that rely on data warehouses. UIA, which unites textual information with traditional tabular data in a universal index, does more than incorporate documents into data applications. It also provides rich text analytics, easy-to-use search and discovery paradigms and near real-time information availability. Together, these capabilities deliver broader, deeper and more-timely insight, including trends and connections that could otherwise be missed.

UIA also includes these capabilities

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