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Attensity Expands Existing Technology Partnership with Business Objects.


Attensity's Text Analytics Capabilities Integrated with BusinessObjects XI Release 2 as Part of New Business Objects Open Search Initiative

SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  -- Attensity[TM], the innovator in Text Analytics software solutions, today announced its Exhaustive Extraction[TM] technology has been integrated with the BusinessObjects[TM] XI Release 2, the industry leading business intelligence (BI) platform from Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of BI solutions. The newly expanded technology partnership between Attensity and Business Objects is part of the Business Objects Open Search Initiative (OSI (1) (Open System Interconnection) An ISO standard for worldwide communications that defines a framework for implementing protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, proceeding to the ), a new partner network of leading text analytics, enterprise search, and consulting companies.

Through this technology partnership, business and government users will be able to intuitively interact with vast stores of information Co everything from call center notes and customer emails to surveillance reports Co to discover facts, trends and insights without having to be experts in the BI system itself. Companies can identify critical, previously undetectable events and relationships between data by unifying unstructured and structured sources using data integration, data quality, and semantic reconciliation.

"As part of our Open Search Initiative and the launch of new search capabilities in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Productivity Suite, Business Objects is embracing text analytics to help facilitate data exploration, reporting, and analysis of structured and unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. ," said Wyatt Mullin, vice president of global ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer.  channels at Business Objects. "Companies using our BI solutions with Attensity's Exhaustive Extraction technology will now be able to access information contained within unstructured data sources to discover answers to critical questions they haven't even thought of asking."

Attensity is an official Technology Partner of Business Objects and a leading proponent of its enterprise information management (EIM EIM Enterprise Incentive Management
EIM Enterprise Information Management
EIM Enterprise Identity Mapping (IBM)
EIM Enterprise Instant Messaging
EIM Employee Internet Management
EIM European Institute for the Media
) solutions. EIM is a combination of strategy, practices and open technologies for delivering trusted, integrated and timely information. Attensity's out-of-the-box integration with Business Objects enables customers to output newly structured facts directly into the data warehouse. Through EIM, Attensity can also reconcile metadata it produces with metadata already stored in the corporate data system. Attensity can even leverage the data quality capabilities of the Business Objects EIM solution for cleansing and de-duping.

"Attensity is pleased to join the Business Objects Open Search Initiative and offer a truly unique Text Analytics solution for the BusinessObjects XI platform," said Craig Norris Craig Norris is a Canadian rock singer and radio personality. He is the lead singer for The Kramdens, and is also a host on CBC Radio 3, including the network's weekly record chart show The R3-30. External links
  • Craig Norris CBC Radio 3 biography
, Attensity's chief executive officer. "By combining capabilities that deliver 360-degree data search and analysis, Attensity and Business Objects will help customers identify their most challenging issues, produce the most accurate metrics, and make the most informed business decisions using information previously hidden in text."

Attensity and Business Objects representatives will provide in-depth, interactive test-drives of the integrated solution at the Business Objects Insight Americas 2006 user conference taking place this week in San Francisco. The demonstrations will encompass the new integrated search solution, as well as comprehensive analytic solutions that integrate Attensity's technology into data warehousing See data warehouse.

data warehousing - data warehouse
, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. , and business intelligence systems.

About Attensity[TM]

Text Analytics software and solutions from Attensity rapidly and accurately transform unstructured data into valuable, actionable information. Attensity enables Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies to extract facts from freeform free·form  
adj.
1. Having or characterized by a usually flowing asymmetrical shape or outline: freeform sculpture.

2.
 text, integrate them with structured data, and analyze 100 percent of data seamlessly using Attensity applications or existing business intelligence applications of choice. The company's patented Exhaustive Extraction[TM] technology speeds detection and response to critical events and issues related to intelligence analysis, money laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal.

Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds.
, fraud detection, insurance claims analytics, customer care, and service and warranty analysis. Attensity teams with Business Objects, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and Teradata to offer comprehensive solutions integrated with data warehousing and business intelligence systems. Attensity was named to Fortune's "25 Breakout Companies" in 2005 and is among Intelligent Enterprise's "Companies to Watch" in 2006. Attensity is headquartered in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California
Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries.
, Calif. with a technology center in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see .
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C.
. More information is at http://www.attensity.com.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects[TM] XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. : FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.

The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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