Attensity
{{Infobox company
| name = Attensity
| logo = File:Attensity.png
| logo_size = 200px
| logo_alt = Attensity Group logo
| type = Private
| defunct = {{End date|2016|02}}
| key_people =
| industry = Software
| products = Text analytics
| foundation = 2000, merged 2009
| location = Redwood City, California
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.attensity.com/}}
}}
Attensity provides social analytics and engagement applications for social customer relationship management (social CRM).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/technology/circuits/03next.html?_r=1 |title=With Terror In Mind, A Formulaic Way To Parse Sentences |work=The New York Times |date= 2005-03-03|accessdate=2010-02-24 | first=Noah | last=Shachtman}} Attensity's text analytics software applications extract facts, relationships and sentiment from unstructured data, which comprise approximately 85% of the information companies store electronically.{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/04/04/teradata-solution-software-biz-logistics-cx_rm_0405data.html |title=Structuring Unstructured Data |work=Forbes.com |date= 2007-04-05|accessdate=2010-02-24}}
History
Attensity was founded in 2000. An early investor in Attensity was In-Q-Tel,{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2005/tc20050510_7612_tc_210.htm |title=A Startup's Road To Washington |publisher=BusinessWeek |accessdate=2010-02-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023033542/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2005/tc20050510_7612_tc_210.htm |archivedate=2010-10-23 }} which funds technology to support the missions of the US Government and the broader DOD. InTTENSITY, an independent company that has combined Inxight with Attensity Software (the only joint development project that combines two InQTel funded software packages), is the exclusive distributor and outlet for Attensity in the Federal Market. In 2009, Attensity Corp., then based in Palo Alto, merged with Germany's Empolis and Living-e AG to form Attensity Group.{{cite web|url=http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/business_intelligence/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216900025 |title=Attensity, Empolis, Living-e Merge To Deliver Combined Customer Analytics |publisher=Intelligent Enterprise |date= 20 April 2009|accessdate=2010-02-26}} In 2010, Attensity Group acquired Biz360, Inc., a provider of social media monitoring and market intelligence solutions.{{cite web|url=http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Attensity-Buys-Biz360-for-Social-Media-Monitoring-66932.aspx |title=Attensity Buys Biz360 for Social Media Monitoring |date=5 May 2010 |publisher=DestinationCRM |accessdate=2010-05-05| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100513180745/http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Attensity-Buys-Biz360-for-Social-Media-Monitoring-66932.aspx| archivedate= 13 May 2010 | url-status= live}} In early 2012, Attensity Group divested itself of the Empolis business unit via a management buyout; that unit currently conducts business under its pre-merger name.
Attensity Group is a closely held private company. Its majority shareholder is Aeris Capital, a private Swiss investment office advising a high-net-worth individual and his charitable foundation. Foundation Capital, Granite Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners were among Biz360's investors and thus became shareholders in Attensity Group.{{cite web|url=https://www.fis.dowjones.com/article.aspx?ProductIDFromApplication=32&aid=DJFVW00020100428e64s0002u&r=Rss&s=DJFVW |title=Biz360 Scooped Up By Data Analytics Co. Attensity |publisher=Dow Jones VentureWire |accessdate=2010-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721124538/https://www.fis.dowjones.com/article.aspx?ProductIDFromApplication=32&aid=DJFVW00020100428e64s0002u&r=Rss&s=DJFVW |archivedate=2011-07-21 }}
In February, 2016, Attensity's IP assets were acquired by InContact, and Attensity closed.{{Cite news|url=http://odintext.com/blog/attensity-sells-ip-to-incontact-what-does-it-mean/|title=Attensity Sells IP to InContact: What Does it Mean?|date=2016-02-16|newspaper=OdinText|access-date=2016-11-17}}
See also
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External links
- {{Official website}}
- {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20101115183712/http://www.attensity.com:80/?|Archive of official website}}
Category:Natural language processing
Category:Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:Companies based in Redwood City, California
Category:Research support companies
Category:Software companies of the United States
Category:Software companies established in 2000