Dan Sullivan is president of the Ballston Group and author of Proven Portals: Best Practices in Enterprise Portals (Addison Wesley, 2003). Sullivan may be reached at dsullivan@ballstongroup.com.

Exploring Text with Qualitative Data Analysis
May 1, 2004

Conducting Your First Text Mining Project, Part 2
April 1, 2004

The Need for Text Mining in Business Intelligence
February 10, 2004 The time is here to focus on the business intelligence value of text and the role of text mining techniques in harnessing...

Conducting Your First Text Mining Project, Part 1
February 1, 2004

The Most Important BI Merger Isn't Making Headlines
January 1, 2004

Supporting Compliance Efforts with Enterprise Change Management
December 1, 2003

The Role of Application Integration in Enterprise Portals
November 1, 2003 The challenges and benefits of application integration occur behind the scenes of the portal interface where we find...

Defining a Meta Data Standard for Enterprise Content
October 1, 2003

Address Policies and Procedures Early and Often
September 1, 2003

Text Mining Improves Business Intelligence and Predictive Modeling in Insurance
July 1, 2003 This article describes a basic text mining technique, term extraction, and discusses how it was successfully used at...

Vendor Evaluations, Part 2: Designing an In-House Evaluation
March 1, 2003

Vendor Evaluations, Part 1: Functional Requirements
February 1, 2003

When the Perfect Search Tool Is Not Enough
January 1, 2003

Best Practices in Enterprise Information Portal Adoption: 5 Key Drivers
November 1, 2002 The promise of portal ROI will only be realized if users adopt the portal in their day-to-day work.

Ascertaining Objectivity in a Climate of Distrust
October 1, 2002

When the Emperor Has No Clothes
September 1, 2002

Ensuring Adoption of Information Portals
August 1, 2002

Five Elements of Successful Enterprise Search
June 1, 2002

Information Extraction in Enterprise Content Management
May 1, 2002

Enterprise Content Management
April 1, 2002

Evaluating Enterprise Content Management Tools
March 1, 2002

The Evolution of Content and Collaboration
February 1, 2002

Poor Search Quality in Your Enterprise Information Portal?
January 1, 2002

InStranet Brings the Unstructured to BI
November 1, 2001

Document Warehousing & Content Management
October 1, 2001

Structuring the Unstructured
September 1, 2001

Integrating Data and Document Warehouses
July 1, 2001 Adding text to the BI environment is a logical next step in the evolution of data warehousing.

The Need for Text Mining in Business Intelligence
December 1, 2000 Extending the data warehouse to support documents and text mining will require new data structures as well as new tools. This...