Much of NogaLogic’s value comes from its ability to automatically identify and classify unstructured data based on its business context and value to your organization.
What is Business Context?
Every piece of unstructured business data is “about something.” It may be about the design of a product, a situation with a customer, the financial performance of a business unit, a patient's medical history, or some combination of such things. This is its “business context.”
Obviously, this business context is important—because the business context is what differentiates a proposal for a million-dollar deal from an invitation to the company picnic. The business context of a document affects everything about how this document is managed, from its access and distribution permissions, to its storage location and retention requirements.
The business context of a document is particularly important for identifying sensitive data. A document is sensitive because of what it’s about, rather than some arbitrary tag or classification (such as top secret, public). Furthermore, the sensitivity of a document can/will change over the documents’ lifecycle depending on changing business circumstances. Therefore it will need to be identified and managed on an ongoing basis, according to its changing value to the organization.
How does NogaLogic create business context?
NogaLogic codifies the business context using Business Entities (BEs). NogaLogic’s BEs are the logical objects that define what the business is and what it does, as discussed and referenced within an organization’s documents. These are typically, the people and companies that are related to the business in one capacity or another, products that the company produces, and the locations related to the business.
The actual nature of the BE types will vary from industry to industry. For example, in the pharmaceutical industry, the relevant product BEs will include the names of drugs, diseases, vitamins, proteins etc. while in the communications industry relevant types of product BEs will likely include cell phones models, coverage plans etc.
BE’s are multi dimensional. They can be identified not only by their actual names, but also by other properties—such as email addresses, phone numbers, or other unique or semi-unique identifiers. For example, a person whose e-mail address is “lazer@sandiego.edu” is probably affiliated with the University of San Diego BE since "sandiego.edu" is that University’s internet domain.
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