Inxight
| Company type | part of SAP AG |
|---|---|
| Industry | computer software |
| Founded | (1997) |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California |
Key people | Ian Bonner, President and CEO |
| Products | LinguistX, StarTree, Summarizer, ThingFinder, TableLens, TimeWall |
| Revenue | US$14.6 million (2003) |
Number of employees | 100 (2005) |
| Website | www.inxight.com - (moved to SAP web site) |
Inxight Software, Inc. was a software company specializing in visualization, information retrieval and natural language processing. It was bought by Business Objects in 2007;[1] Business Objects was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2008.[citation needed] Founded in 1997, Inxight was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was originally spun out of Xerox PARC.[citation needed]
Products
Inxight offered text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries:
- LinguistX for the identification of stems, parts of speech, and noun phrases.
- Summarizer for the identification of key phrases and key sentences.
- ThingFinder for the identification of entities and grammatical patterns, such as "facts", events, relations, and sentiment. This was built on a proprietary pattern-matching language.
- Categorizer for matching a document to nodes in a taxonomy hierarchy.
And also visualization products:
- StarTree, a hierarchical and graph visualization/navigation tool.
- TableLens, a trend visualization tool for large data sets.
- TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool.
This functionality is now available via SAP Hybris YaaS Market and is embedded in various SAP platforms (such as SAP HANA and SAP Data Services).
See also
- Computational linguistics
- Natural language processing
- Named entity recognition
References
- ^ "Business Objects completes Inxight acquisition". Computer Weekly.
External links
- Inxight website - (moved to SAP website)
