Q: Has your organization standardized on any text mining products?
Curt Hall recommends that organizations that haven't already standardized on a text mining product consider doing so. "Simply put, the benefits gained by standardizing IT product(s) in general can include better leverage over vendor licensing agreements, more streamlined maintenance, and reductions in support costs. Moreover, standardization can also help prevent organizations from ending up with a bunch of different applications built using a bunch of different and/or incompatible tools."
* Excerpted from "Corporate Use of Text Mining and Analysis: Part II -- Development Issues and Software/Services Trends" (
), Data Insight & Social BI Executive Update, Vol. 11 No. 19