Inxight

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{{Infobox company

| name = Inxight Software

| logo =

| type = part of SAP AG

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| foundation = (1997)

| location = Sunnyvale, California

| key_people = Ian Bonner, President and CEO

| num_employees = 100 (2005)

| revenue = US$14.6 million (2003)

| industry = computer software

| products = LinguistX, StarTree, Summarizer, ThingFinder, TableLens, TimeWall

| homepage = [http://www.inxight.com/ www.inxight.com] - (moved to [http://www.sap.com/ SAP web site])

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Inxight Software, Inc. was a software company specializing in visualization, information retrieval and natural language processing. It was bought by Business Objects in 2007;{{cite web |title=Business Objects completes Inxight acquisition |url=https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240081922/Business-Objects-completes-Inxight-acquisition|website=Computer Weekly}} Business Objects was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2008.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}} Founded in 1997, Inxight was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was originally spun out of Xerox PARC.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Products

Inxight offered text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries:

  • LinguistX for the identification of stems, parts of speech, and noun phrases.
  • Summarizer for the identification of key phrases and key sentences.
  • ThingFinder for the identification of entities and grammatical patterns, such as "facts", events, relations, and sentiment. This was built on a proprietary pattern-matching language.
  • Categorizer for matching a document to nodes in a taxonomy hierarchy.

And also visualization products:

  • StarTree, a hierarchical and graph visualization/navigation tool.
  • TableLens, a trend visualization tool for large data sets.
  • TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool.

This functionality is now available via SAP Hybris [https://market.yaas.io/us YaaS Market] and is embedded in various SAP platforms (such as SAP HANA and SAP Data Services).

See also

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