Business Objects completes Inxight acquisition
ConvergenceAsia Staff
10/07/2007

Business intelligence player Business Objects has closed the acquisition of privately-held Inxight Software, which provides software solutions for unstructured information discovery, including text analytics, federated search, and data visualisation.

The integration of Inxight's technologies into BusinessObjects' XI platform products is aimed at providing enterprises with streamlined access to both structured information within databases and data warehouses, and unstructured information such as emails, documents, notes fields, and web content that is estimated to comprise more than 80 per cent of all organisational data.

"Federated search, text analytics, and unstructured data access are an important, and often untapped, source of knowledge for many companies," said John Schwarz, chief executive officer of Business Objects. "Business Objects is aiming to break down the barriers to full spectrum BI, and deliver the first solution that natively combines both structured and unstructured data across all areas of business intelligence - from enterprise information management to information discovery and delivery to performance management. This will enable our customers to combine both quantitative and qualitative information from within their business and from outside sources to gain a more complete and accurate view of their business."

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