<p>Enterprise search services provider Search Technologies is releasing two new data connectors for Lotus Notes and Atlassian Confluence. Data connectors extract content from enterprise repositories for indexing into the search engine.</p><p>According to Search Technologies, the new connectors will enable users of Notes and Confluence repositories to have better access to unstructured content stored there. In addition, users will have enhanced ability to extract and search unstructured content in these repositories as well as be able to authenticate document-level security, analyze metadata and optimize general performance.</p><p>Search Technologies also offers consulting services along with its data connectors to allow users to create an application-independent data connectivity layer that filters unstructured content from Lotus and Confluence repositories to tools such as Hadoop and SharePoint.Structuring the Unstructured</p><p>A recent CMSWire guest column by Search Technologies President/CEO Kamran Khan offers some insight into how his company views the burgeoning interest in using enterprise search functionality to help process unstructured Big Data. "Unstructured content is largely created by humans: inconsistent, emotional, careless, opinionated, lazy, driven, over-worked, always unique, humans," stated Khan. "Appreciating this difference in the origins of the data that we seek to analyze is the first step to producing actionable insight and business advantage."</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/search-technologies-adds-new-data-connectors-for-atlassian-confluence-lotus-notes-019639.php">Keep reading...</a></p>