Welcome to my Expert Channel on Text Analytics for the BeyeNETWORK.

Text analytics is a set of technologies and processes that aim to discover and present knowledge - facts, business rules and relationships - previously locked in textual form. Text analytics is the emerging answer to the widely recognized "unstructured information" challenge.

Leading organizations in the spectrum of business domains are harnessing text analytics to meet CRM, marketing, reputation management, publishing and competitive intelligence challenges and a broad variety of operational needs. According to The Data Warehousing Institute researcher Philip Russom, "Organizations embracing text analytics all report having an epiphany moment when they suddenly knew more than before."

This channel will help you understand text analytics and how it can help you create competitive advantage.

As channel expert, I will cover technology, applications and implementation strategy including how to integrate text analytics with existing business intelligence, data quality, content management and operational IT programs. I welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions. Please contact me at grimes@altaplana.com to share your thoughts.

Seth is a business intelligence and decision systems expert. He is founding chair of the Text Analytics Summit and principal consultant at Washington, D.C., based Alta Plana Corporation. Seth consults, writes, and speaks on information-systems strategy, data management and analysis systems, IT industry trends, and emerging analytical technologies.

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