Oracle Taps Brainware
October 15, 2009
The Reuters’s story “Brainware Signs OEM Agreement with Oracle for Intelligent Data Extraction” caught me and probably the folks at ZyLAB and other content processing companies by surprise. Brainware and its patented trigram technology has created strong believers in some markets such as litigation support. But the company has been working to strengthen its content acquisition functionality as well. The idea is that paper and electronic information enter at one end and searchable at the other. Oracle has been lagging in search. The Triple Hop technology has not taken center stage in my opinion. The Brainware deal seems to be for the content acquisition functions, what the news story calls “intelligent data capture”; that is, scanning and transforming functions plus entity extraction. Will Oracle embrace Brainware’s search and retrieval technology as well? Good question. Secure Enterprise Search needs some vitamins in my opinion. My hunch is that Oracle is beefing up its back end content intake system in order to deal with the increasingly successful Autonomy combine which continues to put pressure on big boys like Oracle. Brainware benefits from the publicity this tie up will produce. Search vendors, in my opinion, need this type of buzz to light up the radar of information technology professionals who too often focus on three or four search vendors, ignoring some interesting alternatives.
Stephen Arnold, October 14, 2009
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