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New technologies are eliminating boundaries between content and data to enable pervasive access to all relevant information. Contributing to this innovation is a group of small companies with the vision and technology to have an impact on the IT marketplace. IDC invited search, business intelligence, and content management companies with less than $100 million in revenue in 2008 to enter our Innovation Awards contest.The complete list of innovative information access companies follows, in alphabetical order:
- Carefx, a pretty interesting company that provides healthcare information systems.
- Connotate, a company that aims to provide KM and BI on content using intelligent software agent technology.
- Exalead, a French enterprise search company that seems to be benefiting from the vacuum created by the acquisitions in and around enterprise search -- e.g., Microsoft's acquisition of Fast, Autonomy's acquisition of Verity, and the general loss of focus on enterprise search at Autonomy resulting from their transition to a more consolidation / financial engineering strategy (e.g., the Zantaz and Interwoven acquisitions).
- FatWire, a mid-tier WCM company who currently positions as web experience management and who seems to be enjoying a resurgence under my old TPC colleague, Yogesh Gupta. These guys also seem to be benefiting from consolidation of the tier 1 players above them (e.g., EMC buying Documentum, Oracle buying Stellent) as well as from good, old-fashioned improved execution.
- Jaspersoft, a provider of open source BI, led by Brian Gentile, former marketing chief at Informatica and Brio. In its current incarnation (I think it's been through a few different strategies), it competes for market leadership with Pentaho, whose marketing is run by the very able Lance Walter, a member of my marketing team at Business Objects.
- Mark Logic, the leading provider of XML servers, a type of enterprise infrastructure software for information applications.
- NetBase, a content intelligence vendor whose message sounds a lot like Mark Logic's but which uses very different, and much more semantic, technology. These were the folks who had the tragicomical healthBase demo incident a few months back. Accidents aside, the technology looks interesting.
- Recommind, who makes search-powered information risk management software who, as I understand things, has a strong focus on legal with an emphasis on e-discovery, classification, and compliance. They presumably compete with my friend Aaref Hilaly's company, Clearwell Systems, who have successfully carved out a leadership position in several boxes of the e-discovery reference model.
- Vivismo, an enterprise search vendor whose initial market assault was based on dynamic clustering technology, but who now positions much more as a regular enterprise search vendor (e.g., search done right).
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