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Enterprises are increasingly tasked with conducting deep inspection of their unstructured content stores, either as a discovery exercise or for compliance or analytics purposes.

When the push for federated search became evident some years ago, market demand was focused on connectors, which enabled a company’s search engine to ‘talk’ to its various enterprise applications.

However, there is a need to go deeper than the base connector level, and extract and render file contents for deep inspection, analysis and surveillance of information.

Document Filters go deeper than the application layer that connectors support, and actually pull through the text and metadata that drive analytics.

In this sense, filters serve as the very tool that power all content processing systems.

We interview Bob Smith to gain  ISYS Search Software’s perspective on Text Analytics.

Bob is President of ISYS Search Software’s Americas.