Robert Blumberg is the president of Blumberg Consulting, Inc. He has broad experience both as a computer software executive and as a consultant focusing on product R&D, marketing and business development. Blumberg specializes in the commercialization of software products, from market analysis to product design and go-to- market planning. Previously, he was president of Fresher Information, a DBMS vendor specializing in unstructured data management. Before that, Blumberg founded Live Picture, where he held various executive positions. Blumberg has also been a featured speaker at many industry events and management forums in the U.S. and elsewhere. He may be reached at rblumberg@earthlink.net.

Discovery: The Road to Business Intelligence
June 1, 2003 In this final article of their series, Blumberg and Atre discuss discovery systems, the systems designed to automatically...

Digging Into the Web: XML, Meta Data and Other Paths to Unstructured Data
May 1, 2003 In today's economy, making unstructured data available to decision-makers at all levels of the organization is required to...

Automatic Classification: Moving to the Mainstream
April 1, 2003 The new generation of search products and technologies promises to transform infoglut into an information opportunity.

More Than Search
March 1, 2003 This is the second installment of a five-part series. This article explores how the new generation of search products and...

The Problem with Unstructured Data
February 1, 2003 This is the first in a series of articles that will look at the emerging solutions for treating unstructured data and some...