Inxight Moving to EC Wise

November 13, 2012

If true, this is an interesting development. The site Dvd to Ipad Converter Reviews announces the acquisition of data-management-developer resource Inxight Software by enterprise software company EC Wise in “BO M & Inxight Software.” The headline’s a little confusing; whither “business objects” in text mining we wonder?

The brief write up states:

“EC Wise said the company plans to Inxight’s unstructured information that companies added to the EC Wise business intelligence products to help customers take full advantage of all the data to make the right decisions. . . . EC Wise said, Inxight’s text analytics, federated search and visualization applications, will become part of EC Wise XI platform.”

Unfortunately, we have zero information about the value of this deal, which is expected to be completed in July.

The piece also gives us this observation:

“The acquisition reflects the consolidation trend in the software industry. Last Tuesday, the German software company AG said the United States have been given approval to $ 546,000,000 of its acquisition of webMethods.(AG is a building SOA-based software vendor), last week, Microsoft also announced that six billion U.S. dollars acquisition of online advertising company aQuantive.Earlier this month, Oracle acquired the company to 495 million Agile Software Corporation.”

EC Wise U.S. is based in San Rafael, California, while EC Wise Sichuan makes its home in Chengdu, China. The company focuses on business intelligence, big data, business process optimization/ automation, and, interestingly, gaming and entertainment.

Inxight Software‘s impressive customer roster includes Morgan Stanley and Yahoo. It emerged in 1997 from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The company has changed hands a couple of times already, having been bought by Business Objects in 2007, which was in turn absorbed by SAP in 2008. Let’s hope the company finds a happy home at EC Wise.

Cynthia Murrell, November 13, 2012

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Analytics, Big data, Business intelligence, Data, News

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