Attensity Presenting Software Innovations at Text Analytics Summit; Text Analytics Pioneer to Speak at Conference, Demonstrate Latest Software Applications with Partner Teradata.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. -- Attensity(TM), the innovator in Text Analytics software solutions, today revealed details of its participation in one of the industry's preeminent events: Boston's second annual Text Analytics Summit June 22-23, 2006. Attensity will exhibit products with its partner and reseller, NCR's Teradata Division, the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. and data warehousing services. Additionally, Attensity's two founders, Dr. David Bean and Todd Wakefield, will share their Text Analytics insights in two conference sessions. "We're very excited to be involved again in the Text Analytics Summit, as the conference's popularity demonstrates the growing importance of the industry," said Dr. Bean, Attensity's chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. "It's a great opportunity for us to share the lessons we're learning and the successes our innovative software is bringing to end users -- both commercial and government. We're seeing great appetite for this technology as more and more businesses understand the necessity of gaining a truly holistic view of all their stored data -- through text analytics." Dr. Bean will be speaking on the topic of "Text Analytics: Is the Elephant Still in the Corner?" on Friday, June 23. His presentation will highlight Attensity's patented Exhaustive Extraction(TM) approach to text analytics, which pulls out all facts and causalities from a corpus of unstructured text without requiring Knowledge Engineers to laboriously create extraction pre-definitions -- allowing that data to be used in concert with relational data in existing data warehouses to create actionable information enterprises and government agencies can leverage for better decision-making. During last year's Summit, Attensity proposed Exhaustive Extraction as the answer to the inefficiencies of Knowledge Engineering. This year, Dr. Bean will reflect on that proposal by sharing the results and lessons learned from Attensity's real-world implementations, and offer a view into the future. Todd Wakefield, Attensity's co-founder and chief strategy officer, will also speak at the Summit on Thursday, June 22. Together with other leading minds from the business intelligence industry, Mr. Wakefield will discuss the very latest issues driving the need for text-focused products. Attensity will also be exhibiting at the conference with its strategic partner, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (company) NCR Corporation - Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market. NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers ), to demonstrate how they collaboratively deliver technology that addresses the increasing demand for a Text Analytics solution across a variety of industries. By combining Teradata's data warehouse technology with Attensity's applications powered by Exhaustive Extraction, they have created a world-class system that leverages all available data to deliver comprehensive analytics for manufacturers, financial service providers, retailers, government agencies and more. In its second year, the Text Analytics Summit is the only event that focuses solely on the business of creating value from text. This exclusive forum features the major players in the 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. market. Adopters of this technology leverage it for a range of industry solutions for intelligence applications, content management, customer analysis, compliance, predictive analytics, anti-money laundering and fraud, search, knowledge discovery, patent research, warranty and claims processing, human resources, marketing and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , product development and others. About Attensity(TM) Text Analytics software and solutions from Attensity rapidly and accurately transform unstructured data into valuable, actionable information. Attensity enables Global 2000 companies 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 with Attensity applications or the user's business intelligence application of choice. The company's patented fact extraction software 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 processing, customer care, and service and warranty analysis. Attensity teams with Teradata, Business Objects, and 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) to offer comprehensive analytic 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, 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. |
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