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## Overview of IBM Watson Content Analytics 

With major advances in linguistic analysis of the written word, combined with the increased computational power of today’s hardware, comes the field of content analytics . Content analytics enables businesses to gain insight and understanding from their structured and unstructured content (also referred to as textual data ). Combining this technology with more traditional secure, enterprise search technology, IBM Watson Content Analytics (Content Analytics) Version 3.0 merges content analytics and the enterprise search capability in a secure and scalable manner. This process allows businesses to make the best use of all of their content and the insights found therein. 

This chapter includes the following sections: 

GLYPH<SM590000> Business need and the content analytics and search solutions 

GLYPH<SM590000> History, changes, and what is new in version 3.0 

GLYPH<SM590000> Important concepts and terminology 

GLYPH<SM590000> Content Analytics architecture 

Name change:  This book covers IBM Watson Content Analytics (formerly known as IBM Content Analytics with Enterprise Search, or simply ICAwES). 

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