CUBIST is a visionary approach that leverages Business Intelligence to a new level of precise, meaningful and user-friendly analytics of data.

Constantly growing amounts of data and an emerging trend of incorporating unstructured data into analytics is bringing new challenges to Business Intelligence (BI). Contemporary BI solutions fall short in the following aspects: First, they focus on structured data only and disregard the increasing amount of information hidden in unstructured data. Secondly, the complexity of BI tools becomes the biggest barrier to their success.

CUBIST copes with the above mentioned problems by combining essential features of Semantic Technologies, Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics. CUBIST aims to

• support federation of data from unstructured and structured sources,
• persist the federated data in a BI enabled triple store,
• provide novel ways of applying visual analytics in which conceptually meaningful diagrammatic representations of the data will be used.

CUBIST is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme of ICT, topic 4.3: Intelligent Information Management.

Please visit the CUBIST project description on the EC's CORDIS website to learn more.

CUBIST forms part of CENTRIC, a centre of excellence in terrorism, resilience, intelligence and organised crime research.