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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Data scientists estimate that 80% of the world’s electronic information is “unstructured”, or held as email, documents, video and photographs, or even free text. “unstructured data is data held ...

The enterprise data landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift as the importance of unstructured data grows in parallel with the rise of generative AI and agentic workflows. Data platforms are ...

Applying gen AI to solve useful problems at scale requires a paradigm shift in how we think about data management and integration. Krishna Subramanian, COO and co-founder of Komprise, walks through ...

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 ...

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 ...