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SOLUTION ENABLES WEB CONTENT COLLECTION AND TEXT ANALYSIS.


Inxight Software and Kapow Technologies have combined forces to offer an integrated Web content collection and text analytics tool.

Inxight and Kapow Technologies have entered into an agreement to integrate and jointly market and sell the Kapow Web Integration platform with Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server. The combined solution enables clients to reach and analyze any structured or unstructured information available on the Web.

The Kapow Web Integration platform uniquely integrates any application or information through the Web front-end, and integrates these into portals, content/knowledge management systems, databases or solution frameworks like Service Oriented Architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records.

(2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability.
) as Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . Unique to text analysis, the Kapow Web Integration platform automates the access to any Web resource, even behind log-in screens, and the associated web interactions to extract and re-use online content, data, functionality or processes. When this integration through the Web-front end is combined with the Kapow Web Integration Platforms intuitive visual design environment and a comprehensive set of Web Integration lifecycle tools, clients can speed project delivery, providing better results than seen using more traditional solutions.

With this partnership, Inxight will resell Kapow's products to customers seeking additional functionality to collect information from Web resources for processing within the Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server platform. Using the Kapow Web Integration Platform, users are able to collect Web data, and extract relevant content and information in conjunction with their enterprise content. In addition, customers can keep their content collection fresh through automated or scheduled synchronization of content. In addition, if information is not found in the customer's current collection, an ad-hoc query system that is part of the solution can collect and normalize normalize

to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one.
 the content in real-time and insert it into Inxight SmartDiscovery.

Once collected, users can then extract and analyze the unstructured text in the crawled data, using Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server, which can process text and extract more than 30 entities such as people, places, currencies, dates, organizations, etc. Analysis Server also extracts facts and events involving these entities, such as travel events, purchase events, and member-of relationships.

Only Inxight SmartDiscovery provides the complete solution for enterprise information discovery, including: entity extraction; fact extraction; taxonomy management and categorization; search and summarization; and enterprise integration adapters.

The combined Kapow Web Integration Platform and SmartDiscovery Analysis Server offer:

-- Business Intelligence -- Automate the collection and overview of your competitor's movement and/or your market sector, including information such as press release data, new product launches, price changes, selling time, etc.

-- Data Aggregation -- Automate your data collection and data validation In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring that a program operates on clean, correct and useful data. It uses routines, often called validation rules, that check for correctness or meaningfulness of data that are input to the system.  procedures by automatically monitoring and collecting information from any Web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application.  source, including company information, news, press releases, product catalogs, online price comparisons and public company rules and laws.

-- Automating Business Processes -- Offer your business partners the ability to automate manual procedures, such as sending an ad for inclusion in printed media, synchronizing product catalogs and prices into the marketplace, etc.

-- Data Conversion -- It can be used as a data mediator, especially when importing, exporting or synchronizing data to and from content management systems using a Web front-end. Kapow RoboSuite quickly overcomes many of the barriers associated with time consuming back- end integration, XML schemas This is a list of XML schemas in use on the Internet sorted by purpose. XML schemas can be used to create XML documents for a wide range of purposes such as syndication, general exchange, and storage of data in a standard format. Bookmarks
  • XBEL http://pyxml.sourceforge.
 and CPU CPU
 in full central processing unit

Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit.
 intensive XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema).  conversions.

"We're delighted to partner with Kapow Technologies in providing Web data collection as a collection front-end to our extraction and visualization software," said David Guercio, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Inxight. "It's a natural fit."

"This agreement illustrates how Web Integration is becoming a natural component in current Web systems," said John Yapaola, general manager for the Americas, Kapow Technologies. "We are excited about this partnership and look forward to working with Inxight to deliver the best Web text extraction, normalization In relational database management, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing. There are six stages. By the third stage (third normal form), data are identified only by the key field in their record.  and analysis solution available. I am convinced this will provide our joint clients significant increased value of their Inxight SmartDiscovery deployment."

Availability

Kapow Technologies' Web Integration Platform and Inxight's SmartDiscovery Analysis Server are available now. For more information, visit http://www.kapowtech.com or http://www.inxight.com.

About Inxight

Inxight Software, Inc. is a provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery. Using Inxight solutions, organizations can access and analyze unstructured, semi- structured and structured text to extract key information to enable business intelligence. Inxight is the only company that provides a complete, scalable solution enabling information discovery in more than 30 languages. Customers include enterprise companies such as Air Products, Novartis, Procter & Gamble and Thomson, multiple U.S. and foreign government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency Noun 1. Defense Intelligence Agency - an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition
DIA
, Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Homeland Security

executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
 and Commonwealth Secretariat The Commonwealth Secretariat is the main intergovernmental agency and central institution of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is responsible for facilitating cooperation between members; organising meetings, including the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM); assisting , and software OEMs such as SAP, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , Oracle 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) . The company has offices throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.inxight.com or call 408/738-6200 or +44 (0) 1252 761314.

About Kapow

Kapow Technologies is a provider of Web Integration -- a unique new integration paradigm using the broadly available web front-end. The Kapow Web Integration platform enables flexible and fast integration of content, data and applications available through a browser into portals, content management systems, applications, databases or as web services. The platform includes an intuitive visual design environment that simplifies integration and speed project delivery providing users faster and better results than with traditional integration approaches. Kapow Technologies has over 100 public and private customers worldwide, including USACE USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers , Deutsche Post, Lycos Europe, Barclays Bank, DZ Bank, Swedish defense and Danish Broadcasting Corp. and partnerships with major industry players like BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , IBM, Plumtree, attachmateWRQ, Autonomy and others.

Kapow can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.kapowtech.com.

For more information, call 408/738-6322.
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