Autonomy: Ready to Disrupt Again
February 17, 2012
When Hewlett-Packard (HP) purchased the enterprise software company Autonomy for a hefty 10.3 billion last August, the world was left wondering what would come of this new partnership. While HP has the hardware, Autonomy’s unique software allows enterprises to provide insight and structure to electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video.
Now, six months after the acquisition, word has broken and Business Insider’s Julie Bort has written “HP Finally Explains Its Big Plans for its $10 Billion Purchase, Autonomy” which shares some of the new products that HP has planned for Autonomy.
According to the article, HP is working on several hardware appliances that will power enterprise search and ideally out compete Google’s Search Appliance. HP also unveiled a new Autonomy video application.
In addition to this, Bort writes:
“HP is working on mobile Autonomy applications that will let you view images of physical world objects such as a movie poster and interact with them online. That’s nothing special, as lots of companies are working on similar technology, known as “augmented reality.” But this type of thing hasn’t gone mainstream yet, so there’s plenty of room for a big player like HP to own it if it ever does.”
While HP many not be using Autonomy to create the most innovative products right off the bat, HP’s extensive resources and purchasing power paired with Autonomy’s software make a duo that will be difficult to compete with.
Jasmine Ashton, February 17, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
iQuest, Now Lightbound
February 15, 2012
iQuest is now Lightbound. So what’s a “lightbound”?
Lightbound appears to be the former iQuest Analytics, which was founded in 2005 by Peter Gloor, who continues as president and chief science officer, to innovate and deliver world class and best of breed search technology solutions that solve critical knowledge issues around speed, relevance, and efficiency. Its iQuest Software Suite, an integrated software suite that combines social network analysis, auto-categorization with text extraction technologies to analyze unstructured data, was named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product in 2009.
iQuest Discovery is the company’s enterprise search, research, and discovery (eSRD) solution that utilizes a technology architecture based on combined proprietary dynamic data structure innovations, natural language processing, and “parts of speech” to deliver optimized, efficient and relevant search results. This combination enables high-speed performance and lower cost of ownership and allows researchers to retrieve results that are both intuitive and non-intuitive.
iQuest is able to analyze unrelated collections of documents to automatically surface patterns and associations by clustering previously unconnected documents, blogs, RSS feeds, email and other unstructured data. It employs unique Social Network Analysis algorithms combined with token and link extraction to find hidden relationships and mission-critical undiscovered information by mining unstructured data from large document stores, the Web, email logs, phone archives, message boards, blogs and enterprise intranets.
By developing a solution that rapidly identifies relationships between previously unconnected data, iQuest and partner SGI have made it possible for the intelligence community to flag in near real time anomalous behavior that bears scrutiny as a possible danger to national security.
iQuest is the leading provider of eSRD software for the life sciences, intelligence, law enforcement, regulatory, legal, and research and development industries.
Stephen E Arnold, February 15, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Inteltrax: Top Stories, February 6 to February 10
February 13, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, how Asia is taking on a bigger role in all things analytics.
We began this search with the story, “Asian Analytics Market a Powerhouse” which provided a general overview of countries like Malaysia that are making an impact with Teradata.
More specifically, “India Up and Coming in Big Data” proved that one of the tech industries most important new players is India, with its analytics-savvy workforce.
To no surprise, we also covered China with “China Getting Big Data Attention” showed us how this industrial powerhouse is beginning to convert to the tech industry with analytics.
Analytics has been a global concern from the get-go. However, the sheer volume of talent and opportunity in Asia makes it seem logical that it will become to big data what Detroit once was to automobiles. We’ll be sure to keep an eye as this continental analytics trend moves forward.
Follow the Inteltrax news stream by visiting www.inteltrax.com
Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
February 13, 2012
Hadoop Vendors On the Rise
February 13, 2012
Information Week offers the interesting article “12 Hadoop Vendors to Watch In 2012.” Hadoop is a favorite in the business intelligence world “thanks to its combination of low cost, scalability, and flexibility to handle any data without building predefined schemas.”
Business intelligence vendors are counting on Hadoop to help with not only data processing but also with data analysis. The article mentions several notable companies. Cloudera is not surprising it is “the oldest and largest Hadoop software and services provider.”
Other vendors such as EMC and Microsoft are two surprising vendors noted in the article with Hadoop connections. Datameer is another notable vendor building steam and you can read more about them here. An interesting list however it comes as a big surprise that Digital Reasoning was left off of the list which is a huge oversight for so many reasons in my opinion. The list of vendors couldn’t be more different but data analytics bridges the gap. It’s definitely “the next big thing.”
Stephen E Arnold, February 13, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Politicians Try to Surf on Social Media
February 12, 2012
Is this a new type of polling or is it social trolling? Attensity’s blog reports, “Politico Uses Attensity to Analyze SOPA Sentiment.” Attensity took on Politico’s challenge to mine social media for attitudes on the Stop Online Piracy Act. It turns out that people who spend a lot of time online skew heavily against the law. Go figure.
Author James Purchase writes:
If I had to directly summarize this analysis, I would say that the SOPA-opposition is significantly more organized and vocal in using Social Media to make their point. Whether or not the social media outcry affects the outcome of the legislation remains to be seen.
Perhaps, though I hope the uproar against the law has reached the ears of even the most tech-adverse legislators. They have interns, right? Some are awkward too. Wipe out!
Cynthia Murrell, February 12, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
A Quote to Note: Google Plus Is a Winner
February 10, 2012
Navigate to “Google Social is Exploding Online!”
It is now safe to say that Google+ is becoming an enormous success, with nearly half of the unique visitors of Twitter (40,411,065 unique visitors in December). With a steep upward trend and knowledge of the power behind a Google product, expect continued growth from the unequaled search engine’s social platform known for ingenuity, creativity, and revolutionary product offerings.
There you go. Google TVs are coming as are more cloud apps.
Stephen E Arnold, February 10, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Linguamatics and Chemaxon Hook Up for Text Mining
February 7, 2012
Unlike Web search, Text Mining is the discovery of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting high quality information from written documents and texts.
According to a recent news release entitled “Linguamatics and Chemaxon Announce Project to Enhance Text Mining in Chemistry” text mining software creator Linguamatics and software developer ChemAxon have announced that they are partnering for a new and exciting project that is code named “ChiKEl”, or Chemically Informed Knowledge Extraction from Literature.
The release states:
ChiKEL will provide the first interactive text mining system designed for chemistry, integrating advanced chemical search and extraction of relationships between structures and other biological or chemical entities. By combining chemical search and text mining, users will be able to perform chemical structure and biological searches to extract structured information for further analysis from patents, scientific articles, and internal documents.
The scientific processes of finding and extracting information is becoming more and more relevant as structured and unstructured information continues to grow at an increasingly rapid pace. By Integrating name?to?structure and structure search directly within an interactive text mining system, ChiKEl enables structure search to be mixed with linguistic constraints for more precise filtering.
Jasmine Ashton, February 7, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Discovery Engines and Information Overload Management
February 7, 2012
Are discovery engines the cure for information overload? The Darwin Awareness Engine Blog lists “How to Manage Information Overload: 6 Ways Discovery Engines Help.” First, a distinction: a discovery engine goes further than a search engine, offering tools to refine a search, consolidate data, and apply context to the results.
Discovery engines, states writer Romain Goday, help users navigate overwhelming data because they: focus on topics, not people; go straight to the source of information; supply information through a single channel; let users discover what they didn’t know that they didn’t know; often go through a curation process; and reduce anxiety by combining and ranking sources. See the write up for details on each point.
The article asserts:
Managing information overload requires tools that deliver ‘awareness’ of topics and filter out irrelevant information will become indispensable. The challenge is to do so without losing the ability to make unexpected discoveries. Content discovery engines are addressing this need with a multitude of approaches. The market remains very fragmented but we can expect important players to emerge in the next few years.
I’m sure we can. Our concern is that information may be lost through the auto-selection process. Is it wise to rely on an AI for such an important task? Do we have a choice at this point, or has the big data monster grown too big for the human touch?
Cynthia Murrell, February 7, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Social Media Addiction
February 6, 2012
I am not sure I believe this story, but thar she blows: “Facebook and Twitter Are More Addictive Than cigarettes or Alcohol, Study Finds.” The Fox News writer has not spent much time with hard drug types so I suppose the omission to references to controlled substances is an indication of intelligent life. Here’s the passage I noted:
A team from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business recently conducted an experiment involving 205 people in Wurtzburg, Germany to analyze the addictive properties of social media and other vices.
Now that’s a real world institution for sure. What did the researchers “find”?
“Modern life is a welter of assorted desires marked by frequent conflict and resistance, the latter with uneven success,” said Wilhelm Hofmann, the leader of team conducting the study. Hofmann suggests people may fail to resist social media so much because there is no obvious or immediate downside to checking services like Twitter or Facebook. He does warn that these services can ultimately be a huge drain on users’ time, however. “Desires for media may be comparatively harder to resist because of their high availability and also because it feels like it does not ‘cost much’ to engage in these activities, even though one wants to resist,” Hofmann said.
Wurtzburg is a long way from the goose pond. Chicago is about six hours by either air or auto. The goose is obviously to close to both the source of the data and the wizards who figured out that social media is worse than alcohol. Wow.
How would I search for this study? I would probably use the keywords specious, untenable, and statistically valid but conceptually flawed. Go University of Chicago. Get another Nobel Prize for this type of work.
Stephen E Arnold, February 6, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Inteltrax: Top Stories, January 30 to February 3, 2012
February 6, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, how governments are embracing and utilizing big data analytics, especially during this early stage in the 2012 political cycle.
We got a good overall look at the issue from the story, “Government Healthcare and Analytics Make a Good Team,” showed how, as the title implies, this pairing is making some impressive waves in the world.
Another story, “Social Media and Politics Share Big Data Love” showed us how Ron Paul and others have utilized social media to get a better take on the issues.
Finally, the most promising of our stories, “Government Grows Into Big Data Workhorse” shows how governments around the globe could kick start a big data revolution.
Analytics and big data are growing by leaps and bounds. However, it seems as if government can be its best friend and often tries to be so. We’re going to keep chronicling this partnership, because we sense big things on the horizon.
Follow the Inteltrax news stream by visiting www.inteltrax.com.
Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax, February 6, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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