Metatomix seeks to bridge divide between structured and unstructured information
Summary
The companys most recent announcement, and the impetus for our call, is a product billed as being able to infer semantics from analysis of unstructured textual resources of the sort found throughout most enterprises. Discovery is based upon technology developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with funding from the US Department of Homeland Security. Today, and for the foreseeable future, the clean and well-structured data that we tend to focus our analyses upon is swamped by a mass of unstructured supporting material. In law enforcement, for example, the structured recording of gender, date, time, and crime codes is often enriched by the content of freeform notes fields that are poorly exploited by all too many of the tools we regularly use. It appears that Metatomix is one of those companies attempting to approach this problem with the help of semantic technologies, and Discovery could go some way toward moving them away from a focus upon structure to bring them far closer to territory currently dominated by the likes of Autonomy.
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