Briefs

The U.S. firm Fuld & Co. has finished assessing 170 competitive and
business intelligence software packages. Based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, the consultancy, which itself offers competitive
intelligence services, began drawing up the annual list in 1998.

Firstly, Fuld & Co. noted that a growing number of retailers are
naming their products "business intelligence software." In most
cases, they are programs vaguely capable of providing data warehouses
and quantitative analysis.

Competitive intelligence software packages able to identify and
analyze qualitative information were thinner on the ground.� Fuld's
best marks went to 12 products. Among the best products Fuld lists
Megaputer Intelligence's TextAnalyst 2.0.

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On a related note, TextAnalyst 2.0 was recognized in
"Document Warehousing and Text Mining" book by Dan Sullivan

This book, published by John Wiley in 2001, is the first and most
thorough introduction to the subjects of Document Warehousing that
deals with the organization, management and reuse of textual
documents, and Text Mining that is concerned with semantic text
analysis, document clustering, categorization, summarization, and
feature extraction.

Dan Sullivan writes:

Although it runs only on Win32 platforms, TextAnalyst is one of the
best tools to use whether you are just starting out or need
sophisticated feature extraction and term relationship maps.�
TextAnalyst comes with an interface so you can begin using it
immediately, or you can use the COM interface for custom application
development

For more information, see www.megaputer.com