Abstract
This Financial Insights report looks at the business need, challenges and opportunities, leading IT solutions, and winning business scenarios capital markets firms need to consider when dealing with unstructured data. The focus is on the technologies and approaches that unlock the most business value. Industry estimates for the amount of unstructured data within an organization is 80% of all information and this figure is expected to grow. This means capital markets firms need to understand the tools and techniques that will be required to add structure to unstructured content to improve search, discovery, and data management.
According to Sean O' Dowd, senior analyst for Global Capital Markets at Financial Insights, "Capital markets firms taking advantage of newer unstructured analytics solutions can help validate investment research, capture market moving news earlier, assess current business strategy impacts, and establish patterns that aid in predictive modeling. Too often the opportunities from utilizing unstructured data are unrealized by capital markets firms."
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Financial Insights Opinion
- In This Report
- Situation Overview
- Capital Markets Business Scenarios: Use Case Examples
- Line of Business Scenarios
- Bolstering Market Research Efforts
- Making Sense of the Noise on the Internet
- Utilizing News for Automated Trading
- Enterprise Applications
- Mining Client and Customer Activity: Improve the Value of Each Interaction
- Monitoring Fraud Activity
- Line of Business Scenarios
- What Is Unstructured Data?
- Figure: Capital Markets Data Map
- Table: Typical Sources of Unstructured Data, Static Versus Real-Time Need
- Drivers of Unstructured Data Growth
- Business Need and Management Challenges
- The Approach
- Convergence Among Vendors
- Figure: Vendor Solutions Coming Together to Offer Information Access
- Vendor Landscape
- Table: Large Horizontal IT Vendors for the Capital Markets Industry
- Table: Small Pure-Play IT Vendors for the Capital Markets Industry
- Solution Components
- Figure: Conceptual Framework for Unstructured Data Analytics
- Capital Markets Business Scenarios: Use Case Examples
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
- Actions for Financial Institutions
- Actions for Vendors
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
















