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

Data scientists today face a perfect storm: an explosion of inconsistent, unstructured, multimodal data scattered across silos – and mounting pressure to turn it into accessible, AI-ready insights.

Roughly 80% of enterprise data sits in emails, contracts, call transcripts, and PDFs where traditional databases can't touch it. Much of this "unstructured" data isn't ignored because it lacks value, ...

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 ...

Organisations today struggle to manage and store their spiralling amounts of data. It is estimated that as much as 80% of this data is unstructured, which includes many of their documentary assets, ...

When leaders think about data, structured data—such as payment amounts, invoice processing dates and customer names—likely crosses their minds first. Because structured data is objective, it’s ...