IBM Unstructures Biz Intelligence

On Wednesday, IBM plans to unveil its WebSphere Content Discovery for Business Intelligence solution, an enterprise search and unstructured information discovery software. IBM calls it an "industry first" for its ability to gather and understand unstructured information from audio, video, comments, and others. Working with Cognos to integrate the solution with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Cognos Go!, IBM built upon the open source Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), a framework for connecting different text analytics modules, which helps identify and extract specific business information from unstructured data, such as comments, description and notes fields that are typically found in most applications for users to enter more details about a claim, a problem or a transaction. The knowledge, says