May 10th, 2008
The Value Of Integrating Unstructured Data
It seems to be an unquestioned assumption that unstructured data is valuable - if only companies could find a way to harness its power for the corporate good.
I’ve always wondered about that assumption. Sure, maybe the rogue Excel spreadsheet forecasting the 10-year profit margin of widgets would be a good thing to hunt down. But there’s also a lot of garbage out there that might be better off gathering electronic dust in the nether regions of a desktop PC. And I couldn’t help but wonder if the time and effort it takes to get the Excel spreadsheet would be worth it. I mean, if it’s really worthwhile, wouldn’t people have the sense to store it where it would be found and used?
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