My two cents on the 2008 Text Analytics Summit
I add my thoughts to others who have blogged on the Summit. See the Seth Grimes posting, for all of the other comments. I too agree that it was great to see a large number of end users at the Summit, this year. I was especially interested in the fact that a number of them […]
Text Analytics and the Predictive Enterprise
I recently had the chance to get an update on what SPSS is up to in text analytics. It was an interesting conversation for several reasons: First, it highlighted an important point about text analytics – which we know but is worth repeating – which is that the analysis of unstructured data can be […]
Four Questions about Innovations in Analysis
Several weeks ago, Hurwitz & Associates deployed a short survey entitled, “Four questions about innovations in analysis”. Well, the results and they are quite interesting! THE SURVEY First, a few words about the survey itself and who responded to the survey. We wanted to make the survey short and sweet. We were […]
Four questions about BI Innovation
As many of you know, I have been spending a great deal of time researching the area of innovations in BI. Yesterday, I posted a short four question survey regarding how companies might be using some of the analysis technologies that are out in the market today. I’m starting to get some interesting responses! I’d […]
What’s Next For Text Analytics?
When I first started to research the text analytics industry about three years ago, people didn’t understand why I was so interested in this nascent marketplace. I had always anticipated how important it would be. I remember working at Bell Laboratories, in the 1980s, analyzing structured data using advanced data mining techniques, trying […]
A different way to search?
I recently had an interesting conversation about classification and search with James Zubok, CFO of Brainware, Inc. Brainware is a Virginia based company that was once part of SER Systems AG, a former German ECM company. Brainware provides products that help companies extract information from unstructured and semi-structured documents, such as invoices, order forms, contracts, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Text Analytics Meets Enterprise Content Management
Late last summer, Hurwitz & Associates published a report on Text Analytics. As part of the report we surveyed companies that had deployed the technology, were planning to deploy the technology, or had no plans to deploy text analytics. We asked companies planning to deploy text analytics solutions whether they planned to integrate it with […]