"The authors, the best minds on the topic, are breaking new ground. They show how every organization can realize the benefits of a system that can search and present complex ideas or data from what has been a mostly untapped source of raw data." --Randy Chalfant, CTO, Sun Microsystems The Definitive Guide to Unstructured Data Management and Analysis--From the World's Leading Information Management Expert A wealth of invaluable information exists in unstructured textual form, but organizations have found it difficult or impossible to access and utilize it. This is changing rapidly: new approaches finally make it possible to glean useful knowledge from virtually any collection of unstructured data. William H. Inmon--the father of data warehousing--and Anthony Nesavich introduce the next data revolution: unstructured data management. Inmon and Nesavich cover all you need to know to make unstructured data work for your organization. You'll learn how to bring it into your existing structured data environment, leverage existing analytical infrastructure, and implement textual analytic processing technologies to solve new problems and uncover new opportunities. Inmon and Nesavich introduce breakthrough techniques covered in no other book--including the powerful role of textual integration, new ways to integrate textual data into data warehouses, and new SQL techniques for reading and analyzing text. They also present five chapter-length, real-world case studies--demonstrating unstructured data at work in medical research, insurance, chemical manufacturing, contracting, and beyond. This book will be indispensable to every business and technical professional trying to make sense of a large body of unstructured text: managers, database designers, data modelers, DBAs, researchers, and end users alike. Coverage includes *What unstructured data is, and how it differs from structured data*First generation technology for handling unstructured data, from search engines to ECM--and
Bill Inmon--the "father of data warehousing"--has written 50 books and published in nine languages on subjects such as data warehousing, database design, and architecture.
For current events, seminars, conference speaking schedules, and a lot of other information related to data warehousing, unstructured data, and textual ETL, take a look at Bill Inmon’s Web site at www.inmoncif.com.
Anthony aka “Tony” Nesavich received his master's degree in computer information technology from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He worked with Bill Inmon at Inmon Data Systems (IDS) where he was instrumental in the development of the IDS Foundation software. Much of Tony’s contributions to IDS are discussed in this book. Tony lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife Melissa and his faithful dog, Lola.