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Text-Aware Applications: What Defines Excellence

Dave Haucke — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:56:38 +0000

This just in: if your analytics only take structured data into consideration, you’re missing a big piece of the story. Accounting for ALL of your data (structured and unstructured) is the thrust of text-aware software.

A successful text-aware solution needs to deeply inspect and unlock the intelligence hidden within unstructured data sources. Many industry experts say this is so important that it will define who wins or loses in a variety of market segments. So the question is…who can you turn to, who can you trust and what are the costs?

To help you better understand your options, we’re hosting a 30-minute webcast with Nick Patience, Co-Founder of The 451 Group; Andrew Neugebauer, Sr. Product Manager for Sybase, An SAP Company; and ISYS CMO Mark Vadgama. The webcast will offer:

451 Group: Extracting ‘intelligence’ from Unstructured Data
Sybase IQ: Overview of Unstructured Data Analytics
ISYS: A cost-effective, partner-driven solution for text extraction

Sybase Taps ISYS Document Filters

Bob Smith — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:07:45 +0000

As Gartner prepares to release its upcoming “State of the Union” on enterprise search, what’s clear from our perspective is that future market growth will be driven by innovations in text analytics and federated analysis of content stores. No, this isn’t breaking news, and it doesn’t mean that commodity enterprise search goes away. But if our customer base is any indication, today’s requirements have almost exclusively moved away from “search as convenience” to the “mandate of instant insight.”

Sybase is one of the driving forces behind text analytics today, and ISYS is pleased that it’s pioneering work in text analytics is playing a key role in the latest release of Sybase IQ. At the TDWI conference last month in San Diego, Sybase announced its intention to enter into an agreement with ISYS under which Sybase will resell ISYS Document Filters as a key component for text analytics in Sybase IQ.

Since the introduction of ISYS Document Filters in 2009, we’ve learned a great deal from implementations that are serving broad applications and use cases. In fact, the innovations we’re actively infusing into our text extraction capabilities are being shaped by those experiences. The applications that ISYS Document Filters help drive give us just a glimpse of how text analytics is evolving and how today’s innovators are approaching the “mandate of instant insight” challenge.

Analyzing Search Performance and Behavior

Dave Haucke — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:07:59 +0000

No matter how loud our groans, technology marketing materials remain riddled with a variety of TLAs (three-letter acronyms). At the forefront of this acronym army is our friend ROI. It’s no surprise that ROI continues to be so popular. Let’s face it — it’s in our nature as consumers to understand what we stand to gain from our purchases.

One of the ways ISYS helps its customers determine the ROI for search and information access is via our ISYS SearchTrends analytics capability. SearchTrends delivers the standard reports, such as top search terms and the like. And while it’s always good to learn more about what your audiences are gravitating toward, the really interesting intelligence to be gleaned from SearchTrends is the information your customers aren’t finding.

Part Four in our white paper series takes a look at search analytics and the type of insight that reporting tools like SearchTrends deliver. Read “Measuring the Impact of Your Search Engine via Analytics” (PDF) to learn more about how to leverage search metrics on your website, intranet or portal.

ISYS Presenting at Gilbane SF

Dave Haucke — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:11:01 +0000

This Thursday (June 19 at 11 a.m. Pacific), ISYS will be participating in a panel discussion at the Gilbane Conference in San Francisco. The panel is part of Gilbane’s Enterprise Search and Text Analytics track, with the topic focused on what’s new and hot in search. The panel will be moderated by Gilbane’s lead analyst for search, Lynda Moulton, who is constantly battling Steve Arnold for the title of “Most Prolific Enterprise Search Blogger” (although Steve, and possibly even Lynda, might object to the phrase “enterprise search”). Both Lynda’s blog and Steve’s blog provide perhaps the best and most thorough collection of news and analysis of what’s happening in search, so be sure to check them out.

A brief description of the session can be found on the Gilbane San Francisco website. For ISYS’ part, we’ll be discussing some of the new capabilities you’ll find in our new upcoming release. This will be your chance to get the inside scoop on the technology before it’s released, so be sure to attend and say hello after the session.