The addition of Big Data does not negate the need, purpose, or existence of traditional business data. In many situations, Big Data adds to the value (and headaches) of existing data. SAS thought leader Anne Buff looks at how your enterprise search, data and content management, policymaking, oversight, and governance practices will shift (or not) as you add more data capabilities. She shares how, as you explore new insights and capabilities for customer engagement, you can exploit Big Data, recognize prospects for data monetization, and seize the opportunities of data’s ROI.

Is the search solution you are using today solving yesterday’s problems? As knowledge workers rely more on mobile, social, and cloud technologies to perform their jobs, the boundaries between personal and professional data are becoming blurred. Unstructured data, including video and other rich media, now forms a large portion of an enterprise’s information assets. How do these trends affect your enterprise search requirements? Find out what you can do to succeed in today’s information age.

Innovation by definition changes the way we do things and what we do every day in the enterprise is often dominated by data and information. Advances in technology offer the ability to create significant value. Knowledge-driven products are some of the most productive of our time. However, connecting people to the right information at the right time in the right context is critical to those products' success. This session introduces The Findability Framework, a methodology intended to provide a structured approach to establishing a foundation for enabling connected experiences.

This illustrious panel looks to the cloud and its increasing dominance in the enterprise. Moving some applications to the cloud can create silos that search can bridge across. Computing and storage-intensive work, such as metadata extraction, content analytics, and multimedia processing, benefit from the cloud. What about hosted solutions and hybrid cloud approaches? Panelists shine their different lights on our cloudy future.

To round out your Enterprise Search & Discovery experience, this closing panel discusses what cognitive computing is, what it isn’t, and why it represents an emerging disruption for IT and computing.  Search is a key part of this change, but search architecture and principles will play a role that goes well beyond the search box.  They talk about the new Synthexis-led initiative to define cognitive computing and the nascent market around it and ask for attendees to help in this “open source” endeavor.