text mining

  • Attensity Corporation announced today that it is joining forces with two other text analytics/information management companies, Living e and Empolis, to form a new company called Attensity Group focused on creating business user applications on top of sophisticated data and semantic analytics technology.  According to Michelle de Haaff, CMO, the new combined company has software

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  • Why? How? These are key questions that business people ask a lot. Questions such as, “Why did our customer retention rate plummet?” or “How come our product quality has declined?” or even “How did we end up in this mess?” often cannot be answered using structured data alone. However, there is a lot of unstructured

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  • SAS Purchases Teragram

    Monday, SAS announced that it had purchased Teragram, a privately held natural language processing (NLP) company, for an undisclosed sum.  Teragram is now a SAS company meaning that the Teragram brand will be maintained.  Its solutions and OEM business will be retained.  A good move for SAS This acquisition is a good move for SAS

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  • Hear My Voice!

    I’ve been writing a lot about text analytics because I think it is a critical technology for deriving insight from unstructured data.  Late last summer,  Hurwitz & Associates published a report on Text Analytics.  As part of our research, we surveyed companies that had deployed this technology, were planning to deploy the technology, or had

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