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 ...

Business information is mostly generated by systems or people. Data from systems is most likely to be structured. In its traditional format, this is most typified by data in relational databases that ...

A retailer analyzes the video feeds from its surveillance cameras to determine how customers are moving through stores and how much time they spend in front of different displays. After sifting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roughly 80% of enterprise data sits in emails, contracts, call transcripts, and PDFs where traditional databases can't touch it. Much of this "unstructured" data isn't ignored because it lacks value, ...

Allowing quality data in can lead to a better understanding of an organization. Here are 5 steps to improve your organization's data quality for unstructured data. Image: momius/Adobe Stock Finding ...