Data publishers love structure. Very granular fielded data allows their customers to locate very specific things — for example, all investment banks in Boston that invested in green energy start-ups — instantly. Fielded data allows quick apples-to-apples comparisons, lets you know more about your prospective customers, and makes data analysis efforts far easier. Unstructured data is, well, a mess. To find anything of value in it you need to either structure it (via an industrial grade tool like Khemeia) or ... Read more

All businesses struggle with seasonality or variability in their labor requirements, in one way or another. Resort hotels are busy in summer and much slower in winter. Tax preparation firms are swamped during the April crunch. Alaskan seafood operations work around the clock in summer and then stop completely in wintertime. In the reference publishing industry, there were always peaks and valleys in production schedules driven primarily by print production cycles and these, thankfully, have mostly disappeared with the rise ... Read more