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Using text analytics for customer insight

Understanding customer experience (CX) is vital to organisations.Yet so much insight available to an organisation in the form of text that is not analysed, but could provide a whole new set of insights. Consider, Infoboss empowers you to derive insight from this ‘dark data’ using a varierty of advanced text analysis techniques. This short video…
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Temporary files, the single use plastic of DATA

Here’s a corporate tale that I’m sure you’ll recognise… It’s not true of course (or is it?), but it is based on real true life events. CEO calls the head of HR, “Can you email me the list of all staff and their package details? Thanks. Bye.”. Head of HR to assistant, “Can you get…
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The ‘dark data’ conundrum

Originally published in Computer Fraud & Security (Science Direct, Elsevier) [July 2020] Unstructured “Dark” data is both an opportunity and a threat to every business. How your organisation manages this unique category of data will potentially define its chances of success or failure over the years to come. This article explores the risk and opportunity…
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Unstructured data infographic

Download, view and share the full infographic Unstructured ‘dark’ data (text files, emails, log file data, photos and more) accounts for almost 80% of the data estate of the modern organisation. With so much emphasis being placed on compliance (minimisation and protection) and additional pressure for more and greater insights from data, this corpus of…
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Unstructured data is a risk – are your controls fit for purpose?

The short and dare I say, most truthful answer is probably, no! The long answer probably includes soothing(?) words like, “we have a data protection and retention policy, we’re fine”. Really? It’s like throwing a dice to determine whether you have a data breach every day. Will your business accept the fine and reputational damage…
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Classifying documents (I didn’t realise you could do that!)

One of the challenges many organisations’ currently face is classifying documents in their shared drives or cloud storage. They usually need to classify them to determine what they should do with them. Delete them because they’re worthless or beyond the retention period, move them to lower cost storage, analyse them for hidden nuggets of information,…
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The business benefits of illuminating “dark data”

Across the data estates of almost every organisation there are ever-expanding stores of unstructured and un-analysed data, sometimes referred to as “dark data”. This data can take many forms: text messages, documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, comment fields in databases, chat scripts, social media messages, photographs, scanned documents, conversations in collaboration tools, log files, IoT devices, survey…
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Slay the elephant in the room – unstructured data!

Analysts at Gartner estimate that upward of 80% of enterprise data today is unstructured. A Data Genomics Project report calculates the rate of growth for unstructured data in modern IT environments is around 40 per cent year-over-year. Now consider this, Up to 78 per cent of organisations have little or no understanding of what is…
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