Extracting Maximum Value from Unstructured Data with Ian Barkin

A recent poll from Ian Barkin, a seasoned leader and innovator in the automation space, found:

• 49% of respondents say unstructured data is abundant, but their company can’t leverage it.
• Another 11% say they can’t find OR extract value from their unstructured data.

In short, for most businesses, unstructured data is a mess.

Join Brad Cordova, CEO at super.AI; Manish Rai, VP of Marketing at super.AI; and Ian Barkin, Intelligent Automation Expert, in a discussion about how to get the most out of unstructured data. Topics include:

• The importance of unstructured data to the future of work.
• Strategies for identifying high-value uses for unstructured information.
• What to look for in unstructured data processing solutions.
• How to successfully find, analyze, and leverage unstructured data.

Full transcript:

Ian Barkin
Welcome, everybody. Sorry, I was I was I was slow. The video in 30 seconds is very short, apparently. Welcome, everybody who has joined the feed. If you have just joined us, please do share your location in the chat. We would love to see who's joining us...

Manish Rai
Good to be on this show with you again. I remember a few years ago when I was at Automation Anywhere we took a plane ride together, I believe, to one of the events. Was it Orlando somewhere?

Brad Cordova
Everyone. It's nice to be here. So I am Brad, the CEO, founder of Super AI...

Ian Barkin
Outstanding. Thank you. And best for last, Brad. Welcome. And. And who are you, sir?

Brad Cordova
So I was doing my Ph.D. at MIT trying to merge symbolic AI and machine learning together...

Ian Barkin
Outstanding. Water everywhere. But not a drop to drink. Enterprises have it all over the place but can't tap it.

Manish Rai
That if people need more desalination plants to make the water usable, you know.

Ian Barkin
So let's start with data here. Unstructured data is this massive resource that in some cases is very hard to tap...

Brad Cordova
Yeah, definitely so. I'd like to start by saying unstructured data is not structured data and I think we all know what structured data is...

Ian Barkin
Outstanding. Water. Water everywhere. But not a drop to drink. Enterprises have it all over the place but can't tap it.

Manish Rai
In my mind, I think if I look at the automation journey of most enterprises, they're starting with structured data...

Brad Cordova
Yes. So there's there's three things concretely that I see are the are the biggest variables of the winners that separate the losers in the space...

Ian Barkin
Outstanding. Okay. And so, Brad, it's from your experience of having used tools that solve this problem...

Manish Rai
If I can take a stab at it like we have a lot of companies coming to us who have been disillusioned with the IDP or intelligent documents processing solution...

Brad Cordova
So I spent a lot of my time trying to make I unsexy. And what do I mean by that? There's so much hype and so much false marketing in the airspace...

Ian Barkin
Outstanding. Well, thank you, everybody, for questions, Thomas. For your spicy one, too. That was great. Well, we're over time, I want to wrap up and say thank you, Brad. Thank you, Maneesh, for doing this with me. It was fun to do the poll...

Manish Rai
In fact, I do a small plug in on me for Brad and I will be talking with my old colleague from Automation Anywhere...

Ian Barkin
Great. And so if you were on this broadcast and you think it's useful, do share it. The link is available on LinkedIn...