Text Analytics Technologies enter the IT mainstream!

April 10, 2008 - PRLog -- London, March 27th: Since 2005 senior level executives from data management, business intelligence and knowledge management have been coming together to discuss the amazing applications of Text Analytics Technologies...

As Text Analytics truly comes of age, we are witnessing the transition of Text Technologies from the established and still hugely successful life-sciences research and intelligence analysts to business applications such as CRM, media and publishing, competitive intelligence, and financial analysis.  Highlighting the new areas Text Analytics has moved into, Seth Grimes of Alta Plana sommented; “Text technologies are allowing marketers to hear the Voice of the Customer by enabling analyses of social media and contact-center interactions; they are helping revolutionize approaches to long-established practices in the legal world.”.

Over the past four years the show has been extremely successful in bringing together both the vendor and end user community made up of solution providing organizations such as Attensity, Anderson Analytics, SPSS, SAS, Nstein, Clarabridge, Inxight, and end user companies such as Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Thomson Financial, Pfizer and many more…

Olivier Jouve, VP Text Mining at SPSS commenting on last year’s show said “The Text Analytics Summit in Boston is still my favorite event of the year” and continued “The Text Analytics Summit is the place to be if you want to gain an appreciation of how text mining will drive business performance in 2008”.

Further support for the show comes from Tom Anderson founder and managing partner Anderson Analytics LLC “The Text Analytics summit is a must for anyone considering purchasing Text Mining software.  It’s a great opportunity to meet the companies and individuals who have been working in the industry for many years, and ask them to look under the hood of their products”.

The 4th annual Text Analytics Summit 2007, taking place June 16 – 17 in Boston, promises to be even bigger and better than last year with 250+ attendees, Brand new pre summit workshops, 2 Tracks for end user and developers, all new live demonstration sessions, roundtable discussion forums and the biggest end user case studies of the year including Gay Lord Hotels, Intuit, Merck and Maritz research to name but a few.

The organizers are very excited about this year’s event “With the transition of Text Analytics into the IT mainstream this years summit is going to be bigger and better than ever, we’ve established new application focus’s such as Text Analytics for social media analysis as well as E-discovery and speech to text technologies.  We’ve expanded our agenda creating two specific tracks for end users and developers.  We’ve created brand new pre summit workshops, designed specifically for end users, as well as brand new end user case studies, even more networking opportunities and focused roundtable discussions!” says Joshua Bull, Director of Text Analytics News.

This year’s chairman Seth Grimes, President at Alta Plana also commented on the success of the industry as a whole and said of this years event “I’m already experiencing huge interest in the 4th Annual Text Analytics Summit from Text Analytics end users, vendors and Analysts as well as from organizations just starting to look at text.  We’re going to have a great summit this year!”

Find out more about this blockbusting summit at www.textanalyticsnews.com or call 1 800 814 3459 now.

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