RAVN Systems, a UK specialist in unstructured data processing, has announced a new product range powered by its Applied Cognitive Engine (RAVN ACE). ACE brings together different technologies from the fields of Information Retrieval, Cognitive Computing and Artificial Intelligence in a solution which can be delivered either on-premise or as a hosted service.

The company says the era of simply searching and finding documents has passed and the challenge now is how to extract and distil the information held within documents, emails and other unstructured content.  With the exponential growth of corporate data, IT solutions need to go beyond merely finding the most relevant documents a user might be interested in.

It says there is a need for a solution that reads, interprets, summarises and finds the most relevant information contained within this content as well as enforcing policies about data retention and data loss prevention.

The series of products built on top of the RAVN ACE platform include:

RAVN Extract - Content Summarisation and Information Distillation - automatically distils key information from documents, adding structure to otherwise unstructured data sets and thus greatly simplifying any business activity involving unstructured content, ranging from data ingestion into other systems through to business intelligence on the 85% of data that would otherwise be outside the scope of analysis.

RAVN Govern - Policing, Compliance and Risk Analytics - mitigates risk by establishing whether contracts or other business documentation deviate from accepted norms and risk profiles. By automatically categorising sets of content, extracting KPIs and aggregating risk, RAVN Govern ensures non-compliance is identified and quantified, so it can be managed appropriately.

RAVN Refine - Discovery and Management in Place - allows you to intelligently sub-divide your data into clear scopes and refinements and to apply appropriate policies for retention, disposal and other controls for such considerations as sensitivity control. It also exposes "Dark Data" that may otherwise be lost or in breach of regulatory or policy compliance.

RAVN Connect Family - Advanced Enterprise Search - an innovative approach to capturing, finding, managing and collaborating on your organisation's hard won knowledge and experience - learning from behaviour and implicit links between data objects and people.

Peter Wallqvist, Managing Director of RAVN Systems states, "RAVN Systems are extremely proud to announce the release of this ground-breaking technology and are already working with several international corporations and law firms to extract the vital information they need from mountains of unstructured information. The resulting efficiency gains most often have a truly transformational impact on an information intensive organisation's profitability"

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