Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Information, without order, is chaotic. Attempting to work ...

When a conversation turns to analytics or big data, the terms structured, semi-structured and unstructured might get bandied about. These are classifications of data that are now important to ...

What’s the best way to store, search, and analyze content not based on their technical characteristics but on their meaning? The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects ...

Estimates suggest that upwards of 80% of business information is unstructured data. That could cause headaches for anyone who needs to manage, organise and keep all that data secure. One survey, ...

Data scientists today face a perfect storm: an explosion of inconsistent, unstructured, multimodal data scattered across silos – and mounting pressure to turn it into accessible, AI-ready insights.

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has shown that real-world data contained in unstructured narratives has big predictive value when it comes to clinical ...

This year every organization is racing to understand and unlock the power of AI to improve sales and service experiences. But there is often one final piece that is missing. Great AI requires great ...

This is a guest post from John Schneider, CTO at Apixio. It’s a paradox today we have more healthcare data than ever, yet we can’t seem to do meaningful work with it. Why? Because much of the new data ...

Structured data is a small and declining percentage of business information. But it is critically important for almost all organisations. Structured data volumes are growing more slowly than stores of ...