Digital Reasoning Unleashes Synthesys Version 3
December 6, 2010
Our sister publication covers the dynamic world of data fusion and next generation analytics. I wanted to call your attention of an interview with Tim Estes, the founder of Digital Reasoning. The company has announced a new version of the firm’s Synthesys product. You can read a complete, far ranging interview with Mr. Estes in the Search Wizards Speak series at this link. Our analyses of the Digital Reasoning technology are most encouraging.
Here’s a snippet of the interview’s contents from the Inteltrax story which ran earlier today:
“Synthesys V3.0 provides a horizontally scalable solution for entity identification, resolution, and analysis from unstructured and structured data behind the firewall,” Estes said when asked about Digital Reasoning’s new offering. “Our customers are primarily in the defense and intelligence market at this point so we have focused on an architecture that is pure software and can run on a variety of server architectures.” In addition, the program is ripe with features that are miles beyond previous versions. “We’ve enhanced and improved the core language processing in dramatic ways. For example, there is more robustness against noisy and dirty data. And we have provided better analytics quality. We have also integrated fully with Hadoop for horizontal scale. We probably have one of the most flexible and scalable text processing architectures on the market today.”
While the company still works heavily with the government, Synthesys technology will benefit several other fields. “We are getting good bit of interest from companies that need what I call ‘big data analytics’ for financial services, legal eDiscovery, health care, and media tasks.” For example, the program: “can identify the who and the what, map the connections, and deliver the key insights.” Estes continues, “instead of clicking on links and scanning documents for information, Synthesys Version 3.0 moves the user from reading a ranked or filtered set of documents to a direct visual set of facts and relationships that are all linked back to the key contexts in documents or databases. One click and the user has the exact fact. Days and hours become minutes and seconds.”
In addition, the new Synthesys can be a major factor in untangling data gluts, like Twitter. “A tweet is about one to two sentences as a maximum. If we are processing a few documents a second and the average five kilobyte document has about 30 to 40 sentences, that would mean that a 200 to 400 node cluster should, in theory, be able to handle the Twitter fire hose. We have several clients asking us about exactly this type of Synthesys Version 3.0 application.” According to Estes, Synthesys also provides strong tools for handling email, Web content, Facebook posts, and general office content.
With so many moving parts, users might fear the complexity of the program. However, Estes assures us that, “the kinds of users of Synthesys are rank-and-file professionals, including administrators, application developers, and analysts.” In order to simplify use for these professionals, “Synthesys provides an intuitive graphical user interface for most functions.”
For more information about Synthesys Version 3 navigate to www.digitalreasoning.com.
Stephen E Arnold, December 6, 2010
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