Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Information, without order, is chaotic. Attempting to work ...

Most enterprise data lives outside databases. Here's why that's holding AI back — and how connecting context can change it.

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has shown that real-world data contained in unstructured narratives has big predictive value when it comes to clinical ...

Business information is mostly generated by systems or people. Data from systems is most likely to be structured. In its traditional format, this is most typified by data in relational databases that ...

Let's start by examining those two broad-brush data categories: structured and unstructured. Structured data refers to the data resident within relational databases, often presented via customer ...

Customer feedback typically falls into one of two categories. There’s structured feedback, typically given in the form of survey questionnaires and responses. Then there’s unstructured feedback — ...

What’s the best way to store, search, and analyze content not based on their technical characteristics but on their meaning? The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects ...

This is a guest post from John Schneider, CTO at Apixio. It’s a paradox today we have more healthcare data than ever, yet we can’t seem to do meaningful work with it. Why? Because much of the new data ...

Enterprises face key challenges in harnessing unstructured data so they can make the most of their investments in AI, but several vendors are addressing these challenges.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Many databases are filled with information that’s carefully organized ...

Structured data is a small and declining percentage of business information. But it is critically important for almost all organisations. Structured data volumes are growing more slowly than stores of ...