RiverGlass Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm
Selected vendors are innovative, impactful and intriguing
WEST CHICAGO, Ill.--(Business Wire)-- RiverGlass, Inc. has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2009" (Toby Bell, Rita E. Knox, Regina Casonato, Karen M. Shegda, Mark R. Gilbert; 13 March 2009) report by Gartner, Inc. The report covered market conditions and client needs with respect to improving the management of information as a strategic enterprise asset.
"This recognition by Gartner is most welcome and appreciated. It provides us even greater confidence and motivation as we continue to aggressively work toward advancing our technology and the general state of search and text analytics solutions in the marketplace," said Kirk Dauksavage, RiverGlass CEO.
RiverGlass' unique linguistic, meaning-based approach to information collection and analysis empowers users to go beyond the limitations and frustrations of keyword and statistical search methods. By understanding actual relationships within the text, results of queries can be extended to those terms not explicitly appearing in the query while still maintaining a higher degree of relevance - saving users from needing 'to already know what it is they are looking to find as well as eliminating a multitude of queries, each tweaked to cover any possible number and combination of search terms. Once the relevant information is located, the results are stored as discrete events (with each linked to multiple documents referencing that unique event) with associated people, places and dates of interest. These results can be combined with other data sources and types within the enterprise (such as customer databases or SFA systems) and jointly reported using existing BI, portal and data mining tools and infrastructure.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a Cool Vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are:
- Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before;
- Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology);
- Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About RiverGlass
RiverGlass, Inc. (www.riverglassinc.com) is a leading provider of intelligent information search, collection and analysis solutions. The company was formed in 2003 to commercialize eight years of grant-funded research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. RiverGlass provides application solutions to government agencies and commands in defense; intelligence; law enforcement; and major corporations. RiverGlass is a private company with principal offices in West Chicago, Illinois and Champaign, Illinois.
The development of the RiverGlass technologies was funded in part through a grant by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
RiverGlass, Inc.
Julie Kistinger
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