In this contributed article, Bal Heroor, CEO and Principal at Mactores, believes that by 2027, it is nearly unavoidable that every business, both big and small, will need to get serious about adopting a high-value data analytics system. While this can be a costly investment, there’s no reason that even a startup can’t be a part of the data transformation that is affecting almost every industry sector today.

In this special guest feature, Jordan Dimitrov, Product Manager, Unstructured Data Analytics, Cognyte, addresses the importance of unstructured data, why AI is an invaluable tool and how to move beyond legacy approaches to data management. Unstructured data comprises the majority of data being used for investigations by governmental organizations today and will play an increasingly vital role in investigative analytics going forward. To ensure a holistic, data-driven intelligence assessment, unstructured data fusion and analysis are essential.