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 hard 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, questions into a search engine for support teams to get fast access to hidden knowledge.