ClearForest Announces Support for IBM Open Source Text Analytics; UIMA Compliant Packaged Extraction Modules Speed Time to Value for Quality Early Warning, Fraud Detection and Customer Loyalty.WALTHAM, Mass. -- ClearForest, a provider of text-driven business intelligence solutions, today announced three business intelligence applications leveraging IBM's open Unstructured Information Management Architecture Unstructured Information Management Architecture is a framework used to create computer applications that can acquire unstructured information in its raw form and/or its analysis and use in software tools such as databases, search engines, and knowledge management systems. (UIMA UIMA Unstructured Information Management Architecture (IBM) ) standard. ClearForest's text analytics solutions for Quality Early Warning, Fraud Detection and Customer Loyalty also leverage 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) WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition for enterprise search. ClearForest's text analytics solutions for Quality Early Warning, Fraud Detection and Customer Loyalty enable companies to extract and analyze vital information from unstructured content (such as Word files, Web pages, RSS feeds, warranty claims or call center notes) for use in value-added business intelligence applications. ClearForest's solutions can serve as stand-alone analytics applications enabling specific queries, visual analytics and reports, or can be fully integrated within an existing BI system via the UIMA architecture, uniting the previously disconnected disciplines of 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. analytics and structured business intelligence. "To date, business intelligence has matured almost entirely around numerical data Numerical data (or quantitative data) is data measured or identified on a numerical scale. Numerical data can be analysed using statistical methods, and results can be displayed using tables, charts, histograms and graphs. ," said Bob Pulcini, Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services. "With the advent of UIMA, there is now an opportunity to add data from unstructured sources to traditional, structured BI systems. Our positive experience with ClearForest's Quality Early Warning application makes their support of UIMA particularly exciting. Packaged, UIMA-compliant applications such as ClearForest's will be the key for enabling customers to upgrade traditional BI analytics." Today's announcement builds upon the existing relationship between IBM and ClearForest. ClearForest's support of IBM's full range of integration products - from IBM WebSphere DataStage IBM WebSphere DataStage is an ETL tool and part of the IBM WebSphere Information Integration suite and the IBM Information Server. It uses a graphical notation to construct data integration solutions and is available in various different versions such as the Server Edition and the , to IBM Tivoli Identity Manager IBM Tivoli Identity Manager also known as TIM, and its SMB solution IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Express. Provides centralized Identity lifecycle Management. Automatically creates, manages, and removes user access to system resources like Files, Servers, Applications, , to IBM DB2 Alphablox - offers customers enhanced ability to bridge the worlds of structured and unstructured data. ClearForest Product Suite: ClearForest provides a complete suite of information extraction In natural language processing, information extraction (IE) is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information, i.e. categorized and contextually and semantically well-defined data from a certain domain, from unstructured and analysis tools that enable companies to turn free-text into a valuable source of business intelligence. ClearForest's packaged UIMA annotators include: --Quality Early Warning The ClearForest Quality Early Warning annotator an·no·tate v. an·no·tat·ed, an·no·tat·ing, an·no·tates v.tr. To furnish (a literary work) with critical commentary or explanatory notes; gloss. v.intr. To gloss a text. was specifically developed to address market requirements for improving product quality. Designed to drive down warranty costs by detecting root cause product failures quickly, this application helps users decrease preventable product safety recall and/or litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. threats. --Fraud Detection ClearForest's Fraud Detection annotator is designed to provide insight into social networking and organizational networks for profiling and fraud prevention, this extraction module also improves cross-departmental collaboration and organizational responsiveness. --Customer Loyalty The Customer Loyalty annotator addresses a corporation's requirements for monitoring and responding to the voice of its most important asset: its customers. ClearForest enables companies to analyze information from call centers, customer emails and surveys to determine how customers are responding to corporate initiatives ranging from sales and marketing promotions to product enhancements. "Today's industry leaders face increasing levels of compliance issues, competitive threats, and customer retention concerns on a daily basis," said Barak Pridor, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ClearForest. "CIOs from the financial industry to the manufacturing sector have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. new and innovative ways of incorporating traditional database systems, query tools, and BI applications with new solutions for accessing unstructured content. UIMA meets that challenge and lays down a blueprint for the BI infrastructure of the future." About UIMA UIMA is a standard architecture developed by IBM Research that can be used to add text analytics to any application. It enables interoperability among different analytics software and enterprise applications, and provides tools for developers to speed the creation of new, reusable text analytics components. UIMA can also be used to support wider reaching enterprise search applications by providing a common mechanism for delivering natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as , helping computers understand text and extract deeper levels of meaning, including the relationships that define specific facts. UIMA compliant text analytic components can use WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition to clarify the meaning of terms, mine text to find hidden knowledge, and extract useful business information. About ClearForest ClearForest Corp. is a provider of text-driven business intelligence solutions, supplying the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. In allowing both to be analyzed simultaneously, ClearForest makes unified business intelligence a reality. Our award-winning solutions enable customers such as Eastman Chemical, Reuters, Elsevier Science and International Finance Corporation to turn large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence. Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Mass. For more information, please visit www.clearforest.com. (C)2005 ClearForest Corp. |
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