What is Content ETL?

With unstructured data, the metadata is often unavailable or unreliable. A lot of information is contained in the documents itself, but is not made explicitly available to users through metadata. This makes it difficult to automate decisions, such as whether or not to delete documents, or to add metadata in order to benefit the target system.

Finally, to harmonize and unify the unstructured data, such as for an integration, migration or conversion process, it is ultimately much more difficult than with structured data.

In order to harmonize unstructured data, it is necessary to validate the data, to complement the data and, where necessary, to correct it. To do this, information from different sources will be used.

For instance, you can look to see what information is implicitly available in the documents, such as where the document is stored, knowledge about the processes which are used; and the content of the document itself can be analyzed.