BI Search and Text Analytics: New Additions to the BI Technology Stack

The technology stack for Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW) is expanding to accommodate two relatively new additions, namely BI search and text analytics. Although each stands ably on its own, the two are related in that they tend to operate on unstructured data. In fact, the growing use of BI search and text analytics is part of a larger trend toward leveraging unstructured data in BI and DW, fields that previously have relied almost exclusively on structured data. This paper is designed for technical executives who wish to understand the many options that are available today - though still not used that much - for integrating unstructured data into data warehouse and business intelligence databases and tools.