Toronto-based Crawford Technologies’ newest solution, Data Extractor Express, is a “groundbreaking product” that enables access to large amounts of data stored in ECM solutions, and then prepares it for reuse in analytics applications. Characterized as “the first solution of its kind,” it offers the unique ability to retrieve customer and business data points spanning years of activity, providing a complete picture for analysis. Data Extraction Express is a purpose-built application that allows knowledge workers to specify a set of documents from which data will be extracted. It has the capability of processing millions of invoices, statements, bills, reports and other documents. Using business rules, it extracts documents from archives – such as the IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) – for analysis. Those documents are interrogated to pull out pertinent data for analysis in big data and analytics tools.
“The ability to use big data and analytics tools on data that has been stored in organization archives – dark data – can yield significant business intelligence information, especially when it’s combined with structured data,” said Ernie Crawford, President of Crawford Technologies. “I’m excited that our early customers have derived significant value from this technology, and I feel it will yield great value to many businesses and government organizations.” Crawford Technologies is currently demonstrating the software at the IBM World of Watson Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, which ends today.
Crawford Tech launches Data Extractor Express that unlocks ‘Dark Data’
