And a big thank you to you! Last week I got the dreaded message from Medium announcing that I would be removed from the partnership program if I would not reach the 100 follower target by March. It shook me. …

Not because you have to but because it matters — Enterprise data cleaning: cleaning up old documents and other unstructured data that your organisation no longer needs. Like policy documents that no longer apply. Or the mailbox archive of an employee that left the company 10 years ago. Or Disney movies that were stored on fileshare. These are individual examples…

The second blog in a series about text mining within an organisation — In the first blog of this series, we dove into the concept of text mining. In part 2 of this series, we continue our quest for control. Introduction So it has been decided. Control needs to be gained over that vast amount of unstructured information. Relying on people alone is not…

The first blog in a series about text mining within an organisation — Introduction With the digital transformation of well, the entire world, there has been an explosion of textual information from a wide array of sources. Within this context, textual information refers to unstructured data, such as html, xml and document formats like Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF and email. Along with the world’s…

And celebrating unstructured data — You know, sometimes I get so used to the big data of it all, it doesn’t seem that exciting. Until you do something that reminds you why you do it. Today, I got to present our work to the executives of a large organisation. It was the first time they…

Slowly getting back into the writing game It’s been two months since I’ve last written. Considering my new years resolution to write more, you can imagine that I’m disappointed with that. It’s tricky. The unhealthy busy-ness sneaks into your life before you know it. Guess that’s why it’s called business…

Big data may be a trend, but more isn’t necessarily better — “Less is more,” claim the British. “In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister,” the Germans say. When it comes to the usefulness of data, we should keep these sayings in mind. These could be vital to succeed — or even survive — in the unfolding data-driven economy. Making effective use…

Recently I keep getting confronted “the hard way” that there aren’t many people who get as energised from data management as I do A bit of background Yesterday I gave a demo of our software to a group of employees. The goal was to motivate them to join the proof of value that’s starting…

A story of how we don’t keep the same standards in the digital world as we do in the physical world — When I was walking through the streets of Maastricht with my father last weekend, he noted how name plates have disappeared from houses. Back in the day, most people had their names on the door. It must have really bothered him, as this was the second time he mentioned it…