Twitter and Text Analysis to Help You Surf Through Traffic

The first official SAP iPhone application is already available on iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s probably not much use to you unless you happen to be reading this in Brisbane, Australia. But the free application, created by the folks in the SAP Research center who brought you the Google Wave / SAP “Gravity” prototype, is a wonderful example of what Web 2.0 technology can do in today’s increasingly wired world. Here’s the blurb from the... [Read More...]

Time for Voice of the Customer?

Fern Halper of Hurwitz recently published a blog entry on some BI survey results, showing that: Perhaps surprisingly, over 30% were already using text analytics The highest usages were for “voice of customer” and “competitive intelligence”   Also of interest was the ranking of BI technologies in order of importance — Query and Reporting 1st, OLAP Data Cubes last. I believe there’s an opportunity there,... [Read More...]

Adding Text and Search to BI — Are Customers Ready?

Business Objects turns Inxight into insight: following the purchase of text analytics leader Inxight, Business Objects launched two new products today: “Text Analysis” and “Intelligent Search“ Here’s my take: The integration process has been excellent — the new products are out just four months after the acquisition was announced. The products are integrated, not just rebadged. For example, existing WebIntelligence... [Read More...]

Structured, Unstructured and Pureplay BI

Business Objects closed its Inxight acquisition earlier this week. Structured and unstructured analysis coming together makes it harder to claim that any single database or application standard stores all of the data that needs to be analyzed.   Read More →

Business Objects Gets Greater Inxight

At the European Insight User Conference, Business Objects just announced the purchase of Inxight, a text analytics company. (Welcome!) Inxight Founder Ian Hersey and Marge Breya, CMO of Business Objects, announcing the intention to purchase, on stage at the European Insight User Conference in Berlin. The worlds of structured and unstructured analysis are (finally) coming together in tangible ways. Inxight has powerful text analysis algorithms... [Read More...]