What is Aspire?
Aspire is a scalable and resilient server cluster for secure acquisition, processing, and publishing of unstructured and structured content.
Supporting a wide variety of content repositories for content acquisition (connectors) and content publishing/indexing (publishers) and new components may also be developed and deployed on top of it.
Why unstructured content?
It is estimated that 80% of all content produced and stored by organizations is unstructured. This means it does not have a common pre-defined structure, which makes it difficult to find, categorize, analyze, and, most importantly, use it.
Examples of unstructured content:
PDF documents
MS Word
PPT presentations
Spreadsheets
Websites
Compressed files
Videos
Pictures
Application Logs
What is Aspire used for?
Aspire can be used in many use cases; some examples are:
Enterprise search portals
Index content from an array of content sources into a Search Engine
documents, articles, FAQs, etc.
Content Migration systems
Scan metadata from all content in a multiplicity of content sources
Categorize documents and apply business rules
Migrate content from legacy content sources into cloud-based storage repositories
Data Marketplace solutions
Scan dataset metadata
Data Lake ingestion
Ingest content from multiple enterprise content sources into a Data Lake for Big Data analysis
E-commerce solutions
Scan, process, and index products into a search engine.
Support knowledge portals
Scan through support tickets, articles, and questions into a search engine for support teams to get fast access to hidden knowledge.