Teragram: Growth Strong Despite Downturn

December 16, 2008

I enjoy contrarians. I say the economy is lousy. A contrarian tells me that the economy is wonderful. I say that financial fraud undermines investor confidence. The contrarian tells me to trust American Express. In fact, American Express is one of the most trusted companies in the United States. In my view, I wouldn’t trust this outfit to walk my dog.

Teragram issued an interesting news release that contains information that is contrary to information I have compiled. Specifically, Teragram, now a unit of SAS, the statistics outfit, said here:

At a time when enterprises are concerned about a lagging economy and the bottom line, Teragram has consistently provided proven, money-saving knowledge management tools. Teragram helps knowledge workers automatically organize unstructured data sources, making information more accessible and enabling faster and more accurate knowledge and information sharing. This helps enterprises efficiently manage their growing amounts of information, saving time, resources and money.

I profiled Teragram in one of my studies for a teen aged publisher and reported that the company had some solid clients, interesting technology, and a hosted option to give its customers flexibility. But the economy is lousy and I am not inclined to trust big companies. Therefore, I will keep my eye on Teragram to make sure that it continues to move smoothly against the currents that are carrying some search and content processing companies over Victoria Falls. Yahoo is in some trouble with its world class search system. I reported on TeezIR’s elusiveness. SurfRay remains a mystery. Delphes seems to be on hiatus. Entopia is a flat out goner. And I know of one “big name” that is literally fighting for its life. Could it be good public relations? The marketing clout of SAS? Teragram’s Harvard connection? If anyone knows Teragram’s secret, please, share it.

Stephen Arnold, December 16, 2008

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, News, Search, Semantic, Text analytics, Text processing

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