Ami Software
January 18, 2009
I have been updating my files. I was looking for search vendors who had dealings with the UK Ministry of Defence. That organization had some email trouble, and I was curious from which vendor the MoD was licensing software. My files contained a reference to Ami Software, a company based in France when I last looked at the system in 2007.
It’s been a couple of years since I looked at Ami Software (doing business as Albert in France), founded in 1999. The Web site for the company is here. The company has site for OEM partners here. The search and content processing company positions itself as “enterprise intelligence in action.” The company says that its professionals “specialize in developing software solutions to access and manage online information, turning unstructured data, wherever it resides, and in whatever form into usable knowledge.”
File shot of the AMI interface.
The most recent news on the company’s Web site here dates from September 2008. That news story asserts growth in 2008 and identifies customer wins in engineering and trade publishing. In December 2007, the company released AMI Enterprise Intelligence Version 4.0. According to my file data, Version 3 of the system came out in late 2006. The release includes “knowledge modelling [sic], RSS publication, advance search capability, and [a] new analysis engine. Other details of the system from my files said:
- The core system was developed in C++
- Functions are accessed via htpp services in POST or GET via XML
- The company developed a higher level scripting language called albScript
- Higher level components are developed in albScript which is close to JavaScript
- The system runs on Windows or Apache Web servers.
The company’s Web site points out that the company’s total research and development investment was €23 million. Two investment companies have supported the company: France Ile Development and OTC Asset Management. In my notes, I found a reference to the company’s location in Switzerland, but I can’t determine if that’s accurate.
In France the company does business as Albert France SA. In the UK, it is Albert UK. In North America, the company works with Propelion Internet Solutions Inc.
The company identifies Alain Beauvieux as the president of the company, Eric Fourboul as general manager of products, Phillippe Albert as services director, Remy Carron as sales director in France, and Mike Alderton as UK sales manager.
Mr. Beauvieux worked at IBM and LexiQuest. His most recent blog posting here was in July 2008. That same month, Ami (Albert) announced two job openings. There’s a useful write up here about the company.
What’s peculiar is that information about the company seems to have tapered off by October 2008, and I can’t determine if the search and content processing company is still open for business. With the problems at such companies as Lycos and SurfRay on my mind, I am curious. If anyone has information about the status of this company, please, use the comments section of the Web log to post the information.
Stephen Arnold, January 18, 2009
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