Contelligence Group
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Don Day, Contelligence Group
Contelligence Group
Welcome to the Contelligence Group! We are a consultancy, a technology incubator, a center for innovation and excellence, and most of all, a team of proven and respected industry leaders who have delivered some of the most successful projects, products, and standards that optimize the value of content.
Services
We help organizations solve unstructured data problems and deliver content that operates with the same efficiency as core operational system or databases. Optimizing unstructured data in this way is one of the last frontiers where new technology can create dramatic ROI for the enterprise.
Content Strategy Services
Chances are your content could use some new digs if it is going to support your key goals for 2013 and beyond. The decades-old approaches that organizations have inherited isolate content from the very processes and interactions that depend on it most. We can help you define effective Enterprise and Project level Content Strategies that are easy to implement and revolutionary in their impact.
Project Acceleration Services
While experts claim most software projects fail, our most ambitious projects have set standards for success. “Beating the odds” is a good thing—and even better when you can make it repeatable. Project Acceleration describes the best practices we add to traditional project management. It’s an Agile focus on the business, its people, and executive priorities.
Technical Advisory Services
Until recently unstructured data received minimal attention and even large IT departments had little time for it. Web 2.0 and mobile devices have changed executive priorities and now content, with all its unique quirks and unusual requirements, really matters.
Solutions
The Contelligence Group is driven to simplify complexity; whether it be in business processes, in software design, or in the initiatives where these two meet.
Industries and Case Studies
A collection of experiences.
Case Study: Ireland Cross Government Intelligent Content (eCabinet)
The Prime Minister's Cabinet decided to replace the decades old manual government-wide decision making process with real-time collaboration and Intelligent Content. Dozens of key stakeholders, highly diverse technologies, and intricate rules of order resulted in seventeen linear feet of specifications. Reducing that level of complexity to a single system across 16 Departments that was accessible to 6,500 users was a challenge never before undertaken in the Irish Republic. Despite these obstacles, eCabinet was delivered on-time, under budget, and with more functionality than was originally planned.
Case Study: Defense Intelligence Production Environment (IPE)
Case Study Highlight: IBM Microelectronics
Manufacturing Solutions
Content is everywhere, and there are many Intelligent Content requirements that are common without regard to a specific industry. Examples include managing and monetizing various forms of intellectual property, adding transparency and governance to critical processes, improving Business Analytics and Performance Management; mastering personalized customer engagement on any device, and automating multi-channel publishing.
Life Science Solutions
Publishing Solutions
Insights
What is Content Strategy?
Combining two words with broad meanings usually guarantees confusion. Everyone is talking about Content Strategy, but what exactly does it mean?
Understanding Big Content
What is bigger than "Big Data" with far more game changing potential? It's Big Content, the most valuable untapped resource in large organizations today.
Everyone is talking about "big data," and there is a new rush to see who can provide the best tools for mining Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.
Collaborative Innovation
Sometimes off-the-shelf solutions just don't fit. When this happens there is an alternative to endless modifications, in-house development, or risky outsourcing.
Project Acceleration
Experts agree that success is secured or forfeited in the earliest phases of a project. We bring rare expertise that removes the risk of enterprise initiatives.
What is Intelligent Content?
What is Content Intelligence?
The most common initial question about Intelligent Content may be, “So why not just make computers smarter?”
Why Contelligence?
Operational systems and databases contain information that is routinely delivered for customer self-service, mined for business intelligence, and monitored for governance and risk mitigation. This is possible because the data has been structured in such a way to enable automated processing.
Simplifying Complexity
The Contelligence Group is driven to simplify complexity: in business processes; in software architecture; and in the initiatives where these two meet.
The Myth of the Bleeding Edge
Implementing executive strategy can require projects for which there are few precedents and definitely no
"Dummies Guides"
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"How to"
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(Duplicate) Project Management 2.0
There are a huge number of variables in every IT project--different organizations, vendors, software platforms, business drivers, requirements—the list is nearly endless. There is so much variation that it becomes statistically impossible for any one, or even a combination, of these to explain what experts insist is a very high percentage of project failures.
Why "Minimally Viable Products" Aren’t
The entire startup community is currently enraptured with the concept of the Minimally Viable Product, many of which may not be what Lean Start-up guru Eric Reis (had in mind?).
Blogs
Incubator
Incubator is a collection of pages about our explorations and influences with technology and methodologies.
Projects and Research Topics
More about some of the things we are working on in our Laboratory!
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Unstructured Data and Enterprise Architecture
Everyone is talking about "big data," and there is a new rush to see who can provide the best tools for mining Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.
Book Collaboration Workflow
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Contact us
Giving Back
Nonprofit organizations often face the same content challenges as do large businesses and government agencies. Unfortunately, solving these challenges often results in diverting funds that could have been invested in the organization's core aid initiatives.
About
All indications are that unstructured data will offer the largest return on investment from IT efforts in the next five to ten years. With more than seventy percent of an organization's information assets held as unstructured data, the impact spans the enterprise and affects the performance of nearly every process.