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Every year, technology research firm Gartner surveys 1,500 CIOs. For the third year in a row, the firm’s 2008 survey revealed that business intelligence (BI) applications are the top technology focus for CIOs. At first glance, this may seem strange given the consolidation activity in the BI industry. Read More

After users become familiar with your BI project's benefits, they'll likely want more. Be prepared to provide analysis of unstructured data. We'll show you how to begin....TDWI has described two types of data sources: semi-structured and unstructured. Semi-structured data includes spreadsheets, flat files, XML documents and RSS feeds. Unstructured data inside your organization is everything else you can imagine, such as e-mail, word processing files, audio-visual content, Web... Read More

The key is to devise a universal index that manages both structured data and unstructured content without losing the integrity of either. This type of index must be built from the ground up with both data and content in mind in order to succeed; a true “mash up” of structured and unstructured information to allow for a true “mash up” of search and BI functionality. Read More

As much as people talk about information relevance in search, it’s not much good unless tied to an activity. Attivio is seeking to solve this problem with its Active Intelligence Engine. Rather than restricting itself to one or a small number of data types, Attivio is providing an enterprise search sieve for multiple data types that can then be deployed to solve specific problems. One example... Read More

Search functionality for the new website is powered by enterprise search company Attivio, based in Newton, Ma.  Boldfacers chose Attivio for its ability to provide an innovative active intelligence component to match visitors’ interests and connect them together to vastly improve... Read More

Ali Riaz has 126 friends on his facebook.com account. Ten of them are his employees. Riaz does not mind befriending his staff members online — as long as they initiate the process. "I don't want to impose," said Riaz, chief executive officer of Attivio… Read More

Vendors specifically mentioned as blending search with other kinds of data retrieval were Mark Logic and Attivio.
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…The Embedded AIE core occupies less than 10MB of disk without compromising search functionality because of its modular architecture. It can index 100 million documents per server, with the index typically 20 to 40 percent of the source data; Intelligent Facet Discovery--Embedded AIE automatically selects, calculates, and displays the most relevant facets… Read More

Firmaet Attivio lancerer søgemaskine, der fylder omkring 10 MB, og som sigter mod integration i embedded produkter...  Read More

Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine is enterprise search software with characteristics of a business intelligence query tool. It works by creating a "universal index" of data from relational databases, Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, e-mail, and enterprise applications, including Salesforce.com. Among its features are a "fuzzy" query language, probabilistic relevancy… Read More

Attivio, an enterprise search start-up loaded with veterans from FAST Search & Transfer (now Microsoft), are building a search platform that can pull in virtually any piece of information to create a one-stop shop for corporate users hunting for data. Andrew McKay, senior vice president of products at Attivio, talks about the company, its product line and the search market in general. Listen Here

Your company collects terabytes of data, yet finding the information that employees need is tricky because it's scattered far and wide. IT pros have tried many techniques to solve this data management dilemma, including. Read More

Search has been nearly perfected for the wide Internet, but internally, enterprises are still finding it difficult to embed search into corporate applications and intranets. Andrew McKay, senior vice president for Products at Attivio, has some suggestions for building search with an inside-out perspective. Listen Here

Attivio is a new company that is aiming to tie the ability to search unstructured documents with business intelligence; enabling one search across all of a company's data and content. Read More

"Embedded search" (also referred to as “OEM search”) is the integration or embedding of search technology into another software application that is itself a commercial product or service. In many ways, the search provider is an extension of the OEM’s R&D department, creating not just a commercial relationship, but a true partnership. Read More

The Company, a silver sponsor at AIIM, the world's largest educational conference and expo dedicated to content and information management products and solutions, will also be demonstrating the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) in Booth #2641 on the show floor. Read More

Ms. Lunger will report directly to CEO Ali Riaz and serve as the Company's business intelligence and corporate performance management industry expert in charge of facilitating new relationships in this arena. Read More

Consultant and information technology analyst Curt Monash says that "Attivio is going after problems that should have been solved by the integration of text search and XML into relational database managers such as Oracle. But those implementations never lived up to their promise." Read More

The way Riaz sees it, Attivio is beginning the next chapter in the evolution of information, from creating to finding, and now with Attivio, to using information. "Finding doesn't always require searching", says Sue Aldrich, Senior Vice President and Senior Consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group. Read More

Rather than focusing its technology development on traditional search issues, such relevancy tuning and natural language processing, Attivio is more focused on helping businesses find information across an organization without breaking up the relationships among data, or having to move. Read More

But Ali Riaz, Fast's former chief operating officer who left in 2006 to start his own enterprise search company, Attivio, had another reading. Read More

Another problem, according to Ali Riaz, former president and COO of FAST, is that expectations "are higher since the assumption is 'it's our data and we know what should be there." Read More

Ali Riaz, former president and COO of FAST (2000-2006), is currently CEO and founder of Attivio, Inc., an "Information Fabric/Information Infrastructure platform provider." Read More

One of these individuals – Ali Riaz, now CEO of Attivio, Inc. – burnished the Fast Search image and fueled sales. In the wake of Mr. Riaz’s departure, Fast Search had to trim some costs. Read More

 When Andrew McKay was at FAST, I grumped about his search/BI integration story. Now that he’s trying to do the same thing at a startup call Attivio, it sounds more plausible. Read More