http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/#comment-2655 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Telling Attensity and Clearforest apart Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:02:29 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/#comment-2655 [...] Frankly, most enterprises that have a need for this technology should put both Attensity and Clearforest on their short lists. But he’s one technical note that may help predict who you’ll wind up actually selecting: Attensity’s lead strategy for integration is to dump everything into relational tables, for conventional analytics-stack products like Business Objects’ and Teradata’s to manipulate. Clearforest’s lead strategy for integration has more of an SOA/XML flavor, grown out of conventional OO. If one of those sounds like an obviously better fit to your situation than the other, then that’s the vendor you absolutely, positively should not leave out of your evaluation process. • • • [...] [...] Frankly, most enterprises that have a need for this technology should put both Attensity and Clearforest on their short lists. But he’s one technical note that may help predict who you’ll wind up actually selecting: Attensity’s lead strategy for integration is to dump everything into relational tables, for conventional analytics-stack products like Business Objects’ and Teradata’s to manipulate. Clearforest’s lead strategy for integration has more of an SOA/XML flavor, grown out of conventional OO. If one of those sounds like an obviously better fit to your situation than the other, then that’s the vendor you absolutely, positively should not leave out of your evaluation process. • • • [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/#comment-1725 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Business Objects’ perspective on text mining (and search) Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:52:59 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/#comment-1725 [...] I had a call with Business Objects, mainly about their overall EIM/ETL product line (Enterprise Information Management, a superset of Extract/Transform/Load). But I took the opportunity to ask about their deal with Attensity. (Attensity themselves posted more about the relationship, including some detailed links, here.) It actually sounds pretty real. They also mentioned that there seem to be a bunch of startups proposing search as a substitute for data warehousing, much as FAST sometimes likes to. [...] [...] I had a call with Business Objects, mainly about their overall EIM/ETL product line (Enterprise Information Management, a superset of Extract/Transform/Load). But I took the opportunity to ask about their deal with Attensity. (Attensity themselves posted more about the relationship, including some detailed links, here.) It actually sounds pretty real. They also mentioned that there seem to be a bunch of startups proposing search as a substitute for data warehousing, much as FAST sometimes likes to. [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/#comment-1716 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Text mining into big data warehouses Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:54:11 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2006/07/27/more-on-attensity/#comment-1716 [...] I previously noted that Attensity seemed to putting a lot of emphasis on a partnership with Business Objects and Teradata, although due to vacations I’ve still failed to get anybody from Business Objects to give me their view of the relationship’s importance. Now Greenplum tells me that O’Reilly is using their system to support text mining (apparently via homegrown technology), although I wasn’t too clear on the details. I also got the sense Greenplum is doing more in text mining, but the details of that completely escaped me. [...] [...] I previously noted that Attensity seemed to putting a lot of emphasis on a partnership with Business Objects and Teradata, although due to vacations I’ve still failed to get anybody from Business Objects to give me their view of the relationship’s importance. Now Greenplum tells me that O’Reilly is using their system to support text mining (apparently via homegrown technology), although I wasn’t too clear on the details. I also got the sense Greenplum is doing more in text mining, but the details of that completely escaped me. [...]

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