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“Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford) "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine” (Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner) “War is 90% information.” (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust.” (Ginni Rometty, CEO, IBM) “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” (Geoffrey Moore, author and consultant) “The world is one big data problem.” (Andrew McAfee) “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding.” (Hal Varian, chief economist at Google) “The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” (Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective) "The most valuable commodity I know of is information." (Gordon Gekko, Wall Street) "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have our opinions, let’s go with mine." (Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO) “Processed data is information. Processed information is knowledge, Processed knowledge is Wisdom.” (Ankala V. Subbarao)
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Most enterprises still try to use paper-based principles to manage the digital era. This won’t work with the growing volume, variety, and velocity of information. 80% of information is unstructured, and we need to automate how important content is identified, captured, analyzed, and governed. Only then can we turn information chaos into opportunities.
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Content analytics is a key part of “big data” business intelligence, but it is also driving auto-classification, content remediation, security correction, adaptive case management, and operations monitoring. Below, we've compiled the key statistics from AIIM's independent research study on Content Analytics. Explore the take-up of analytics applications for inbound routing and text recognition, content classification and metadata correction, improved search and knowledge extraction, and business insight.
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Can content analytics provide the answer to who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird and put an old rumor to rest?
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AIIM Community | Document Management
I thought I’d summarize some of the press I see about the iManage spinout from HP. If you come across other updates, feel free to enter them in the comments. I have to admit from the perspective of an association that relies on independent companies as members; I’m kind of glad to see the acquisition pendulum go in the other direction for a change. We don’t take official positions on these types of things, but it does seem to be a win/win for both HP and iManage.
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Warning to new casual readers -- past readers will know that I am a bit of a renegade in the association technology community. For example, see my post A Manifesto for Associations to Survive Disruption or my e-book lamenting the state of Association Management Systems, The AMS as We Know it is Dead. We are also a somewhat crazy association that is trying to make Hubspot the core of our business. Beyond all this, I am more engaged in social and community technologies than is probably healthy. Certainly, more than my wife finds tolerable. My personal and professional experience of over 30 years in the association space and as an ASAE member -- plus the experience of my own association with our own online community – has me asking this question:
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