Ikanow: Creating Pathways through Information

March 1, 2012

We learned about an interesting open source player called Ikanow. One of my colleagues pronounced it, “I can know.” Sounded good to me. You can get information about the firm’s solutions for “agile intelligence.” You can apply for a free trial of the open analytics system the company offers.

The purpose of this short item is to highlight a story from the Ikanow blog, “Enabling Reasoning from Unstructured and Structured Data.” The write up explains how the Ikanow system can deliver useful insights via the firm’s analytics system. This passage caught my attention:

entities and events were built up from the available structured metadata to create more complex structures. This allows us to bridge the information with unstructured news reporting in order to look for trends or events in the data. The examples below illustrate some of types of visualizations that were generated in this example.

The company has positioned itself at the intersection of two hot trends in content processing: analytics based on entities and visualization which cause the important points to pop.

Here’s how the company is positioning its Infinit.e solution:

At IKANOW, we have created an environment that supports Open Analytics, a new process for enabling and deploying rapid innovation in the analytic market space. We start by providing a culture that supports the concept and by providing tools and techniques that enable innovation to occur on the edges of the technology; we believe this puts the power of true analytics in the hands of the people who require it, rather than relying on licensing models and proprietary interfaces or closed innovation, which ultimately prohibits overall innovation expansion. Our team understands there is no out-of-the-box solution to satisfy all analytic needs, and a new way of thinking about the problem is needed. Unlike structured enterprise search, unstructured ‘Beyond Search’ analytics is research-driven intelligence based on unknowns. Agile Intelligence is an approach that addresses many of the analyst enablement impediments experienced today by incorporating Agile Scrum software development practices into the analytic domain.

Worth an agile look.

Stephen E Arnold, March 1, 2012 (published at about 1100 Eastern time for )

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We learned about an interesting open source player called Ikanow. One of my colleagues pronounced it, “I can know.” Sounded good to me. You can get information about the firm’s solutions for “agile intelligence.” | Infinit.e on March 28th, 2012 8:05 pm

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.