Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries by automating tasks and generating insights, but its true effectiveness depends on high-quality, relevant data. Structured data is the most ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When a conversation turns to analytics or big data, the terms structured, semi-structured and unstructured might get bandied about. These are classifications of data that are now important to ...

Back in the 1990s, business intelligence (BI) initiatives often consisted of software tools applied to structured datasets (like corporate ERP) to enable more accurate analysis of past events as a ...

Estimates suggest that upwards of 80% of business information is unstructured data. That could cause headaches for anyone who needs to manage, organise and keep all that data secure. One survey, ...

Allowing quality data in can lead to a better understanding of an organization. Here are 5 steps to improve your organization's data quality for unstructured data. Image: momius/Adobe Stock Finding ...

With structured data, data fields are aligned side-by-side in fixed record lengths, with specific data fields appearing at static locations within each record. Unstructured data does not contain a set ...