Akibot: Enterprise Microblogging with NLP
April 7, 2010
We received a question about Akibot, a stealth start up in private beta. We have not been able to use the system, but I wanted to snag what information I have in our Overflight system before I head to the airport. Fact is, we don’t know too much about this Twitter-influenced service.
Akibot is a company using smart software to generate business intelligence. The company’s Web site does not contain much information. Here’s the splash screen:
One phrase in “Collaboration with Akibot” provides a good summary of the company’s focus:
Akibot is the first semantic actionable micro-blogging platform for the enterprise. Akibot not only allows real-time group collaboration and awareness through short, instant messages (like a Twitter for the company), but it also understands those messages and, if applicable, takes action.
A July 2009 story in ReadWriteWeb, “Akibot: An Enterprise Twitter Clone Infused with AI” reported:
At first glance, Akibot may look very much like your typical Twitter clone, but it does something very different: it combines the collective intelligence provided by microblogging with an artificial intelligence engine that lets the service take action on the messages posted.
Overflight snared the Akibot Web log at http://akibot.blogspot.com/. The activity on the blog is modest with the most recent post appearing on February 11, 2010. The story “Yet Another New Version” pointed to an article about Akibot by Martin Bohringer, “Ubiquitous Microblogging”. He wrote:
The approach of ubiquitous microblogging has much to do with the search for enterprise use cases of microblogging and a rising number of researchers is thinking about this topic. Michael Rosemann from Queensland University of Technology described how microblogging could be used for business process management. Alexander Dreiling from SAP shows a prototype for collaborative modelling with Google Wave (is Wave microblogging? I am going to discuss this question in a future posting). But the other way round is also possible, as the guys from Akibot show with their microblogging bot using NLP (Natural Language Processing). And finally, our research group is currently involved in several microblogging projects including ‘microblogging for logistics’ (think of tweeting RFID chips). To implement a full ubiquitous microblogging scenario, still lots of work has to be done.
The question asked by Smarter Technology in July 2009 is difficult to answer: “Is there a business purpose for microblogging?” We won’t go beyond, “Stay tuned.”
Stephen E Arnold, April 7, 2010
A freebie.
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