Look Out: Computer Vision in AI is Coming Into Sight
Analyst Perspective
Unstructured data has been a significant factor in data lakes and analytics for some time. Twelve years ago, nearly a third of enterprises were working with large amounts of unstructured data. As I’ve pointed out previously, unstructured data is really a misnomer. The data is structured; it's just not structured into rows and columns that fit neatly into a relational table like much of the other information enterprises process. Consequently, it requires different skills, different technology and more computing power to process this data. Our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research shows that nearly 6 in 10 enterprises (59%) have inadequate unstructured data management technology. A similar percentage (58%) had inadequate training in analyzing unstructured data. However, as computing power increases and the cost of storage decreases, it becomes much more practical to go deeper into the use of unstructured data.