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IT managers in the Internet

The proliferation of the Internet and the availability of various types of computer files (including documents, sound files, video files and multimedia presentation files) have made it difficult for IT managers and computer users to keep track of new types of data. Databases have traditionally been used to track individual records, but today's computers can handle data of a much different type which is not easily converted into traditional relational database formats. This research examines how users and vendors are meeting the new needs of today's computer users.

The Need for Managing Unstructured Information

Many companies have struggled to create enterprise data warehouses designed to give top decision makers access to all the data generated by key operational systems. After finally getting those large decision-support systems into production, however, these companies are finding that the new data warehouses hold, at most, between 10 percent to 15 percent of all the data used daily across an enterprise. The other 85 percent to 90 percent is unstructured data: documents, images, text files, video, audio and other types of content that do not fit the parameters used in traditional databases. For many organizations, this unstructured information can be as important as the data from traditional operational systems (such as financial and manufacturing applications) (Leland, 1999, p. 38).

Despite the forecasts of a "paperless" society that were made when computers were initially introduced into the workplace, users are finding not only that paper files have continued to exist, but that electronic files now contain more than just documents. They also contain video and other types of unstructured data that are proliferating in most organizations. The Gartner Group estimates that American companies produced 5.5 billion documents annually at the end of the 1990s, and most of those documents are being accessed and retrieved man...

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