Discovery

Unlike "Big Data" which is primarily generated by machines, people, not machines are creating content at unprecedented rates and volumes. Today's knowledge workers generate more than 80 percent of the information found in the enterprise in the form documents, spreadsheets, presentations, email, collaboration and media. This unstructured content does share two important characteristics with Big Data. Firstly, it is big. The volume of content being created and stored by organisations is doubling every two years. Secondly, there is a desire to extract and protect value in this content. This "Big Content" represents the sum of the collaboration, intellectual property, competitive advantage, and expertise in the organisation. Unfortunately, it also represents all of the detritus, outdated and duplicated information that exists within every organisation. The problem organisations face is how to quickly find value in their "Big Content".

Organisations that can solve "Big Content" problems will benefit by being able to separate what is valuable from content that is valueless. Through enriching and providing better access to the valuable content, its value can be amplified to improve productivity, collaboration, customer engagement and innovation. The valueless can be managed to reduce risk and cost.

OpenText Discovery Suite accelerates time to value for Big Content

Big Content problems can be summarised as the three U's. Big Content is unintegrated, unstructured and unmanaged. Discovery Suite addresses these problems by:

• Eliminating silos with a Unified Information Access Platform for Enterprise content and content sources
• Bringing structure to the unstructured with content analytics to normalise and enrich metadata
• Managing content and making content smarter with problem-specific unified information applications

Discovery applications enable organisations to accelerate time to value – and transform one of their biggest problems into their most valuable asset.