http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2007/05/business-objects-discovers-text/ Andy Hayler, noted industry expert and founder of Kalido, gives his view on developments in the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and corporate performance management. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2007/05/business-objects-discovers-text/#comment-30355 Fri, 25 May 2007 09:00:14 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2007/05/business-objects-discovers-text/#comment-30355 Thanks for the additional background Fred; I defer to your deeper knowledge. The rumour I heard was that Business Objects paid around USD 50M for a company doing USD 25M revenue with 120 staff, so I assumed that it wasn't exactly a profit machine, but this purchase price estimate is speculation. Thanks for the additional background Fred; I defer to your deeper knowledge. The rumour I heard was that Business Objects paid around USD 50M for a company doing USD 25M revenue with 120 staff, so I assumed that it wasn’t exactly a profit machine, but this purchase price estimate is speculation.

]]> http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2007/05/business-objects-discovers-text/#comment-30341 Fri, 25 May 2007 06:44:05 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2007/05/business-objects-discovers-text/#comment-30341 Hi Andy I was on the board of Inxight for a few years and indeed the company suffered from the downturn in BI software in 2001-2002 but it had in recent years achieved significant traction with government in the US and in particular Homeland Security and hence decent revenue growth. What's significant about the company is the breadth of its linguistics platform (from its PARC background and as an OEM vendor to the likes of SAS or ClearForest) and breadth of patents, on the back of which it built the information extraction platform that it sells to large enterprise and government. Like many companies in the space it never achieved hypergrowth as the proposition is inherently hard to sell in a purely packaged way, but it's certainly the key player in this particular field. I haven't been in touch with the business for a few years, but i'll bet it's profitable. Hi Andy
I was on the board of Inxight for a few years and indeed the company suffered from the downturn in BI software in 2001-2002 but it had in recent years achieved significant traction with government in the US and in particular Homeland Security and hence decent revenue growth. What’s significant about the company is the breadth of its linguistics platform (from its PARC background and as an OEM vendor to the likes of SAS or ClearForest) and breadth of patents, on the back of which it built the information extraction platform that it sells to large enterprise and government. Like many companies in the space it never achieved hypergrowth as the proposition is inherently hard to sell in a purely packaged way, but it’s certainly the key player in this particular field. I haven’t been in touch with the business for a few years, but i’ll bet it’s profitable.

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