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Business intelligence is about finding information from structured data. But what if you need to find information from unstructured data? Is there a business intelligence source that can find information from the company intranet? Or from internal blogs within the organization? Yes. The answer is Search.

There has been a wall put up between BI and Search. One reson is that the two have had trouble working together. Many want the two to work together for everyone who needs the information. Custom-designed portals or dashboards that combine the two are possible. The wide variety of desktop search tools like the free Google Desktop make it possible for detailed search queries across multiple data sources.

A change in infrastrucure will most likely be needed to enable a good integration of combined Search and BI tools. The possibility of traditional search results from the traditional sources and from structured data sources is worth a try.

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