While text analytics is considered a “must have” technology by the majority of companies that use it, challenges abound.  So I’ve learned from the many companies I’ve talked to as I prepare Hurwitz & Associates’ Victory Index for Text Analytics,a tool that assesses not just the technical capability of the technology but its ability to provide tangible value to the business (look for the results of the Victory Index in about a month). Here are the top five: http://bit.ly/Tuk8DB.  Interestingly, most of them have nothing to do with the technology itself.