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SIIA Announces 2013 DataContent Models of Excellence

September 26, 2013 By

Six data companies designated as Models of Excellence by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and InfoCommerce Group will present their products and services at the upcoming DataContent conference in Philadelphia, October 15-17. All of the firms selected are innovative data companies pioneering new business models and practices. DataContent is the only conference devoted solely to producers of commercial data products.

DataContent will spotlight the Models of Excellence throughout the conference. CEOs of the companies will provide candid insights on what has made the products successful, and will host a private dinner for high-level networking.

This year’s Models of Excellence presenting companies are:

Enigma
Enigma has created consolidated access to over 100,000 public domain databases to provide unparalleled access to data that is often valuable, nominally free, but difficult to source and use effectively. Think of Enigma as a search engine for public data, and the enigma here is why no one has done this before.
MOE Profile | Website

Equilar – Atlas
Equilar takes public domain data and normalizes and enhances it so that it can become premium-value content. Equilar Atlas takes this data and flips it into a variety of new applications and markets, something not many publishers do successfully.
MOE Profile | Website

FindTheCompany
FindTheCompany represents an impressive step-up in the arms race to use a mosaic-style strategy to build out deep company dossiers by aggregating data from a wide variety of sources. By aggressively mixing harvested, public and licensed data, it is an excellent showcase both for what’s possible and where things are heading.
MOE Profile | Website

Relationship Science
Relationship Science is all about networking for business development and fund-raising, using an innovative relationship mapping approach and backed by a huge research team to build and maintain deep, structured profiles on over 2.5 million influential individuals. While its concept is  “sort of like” what other data companies are already doing, it’s approach is distinctive, and it’s huge commitment to editorial research puts the company’s emphasis right where it should be: quality data.
MOE Profile | Website

Segmint
Segmint is real life example of Big Data at work, with real-time analytics and predictive models. It is executing on the fundamental goal of every marketer: to make customer data actionable by creating and delivering targeted, relevant messages customers want to see, remember and act upon.
MOE Profile | Website

Stella Service
STELLAService  provides customer service ratings to companies based on its independent analysis of over 200 customer service metrics and random customer service calls to companies by its analysts. It provides a clean, intuitive and powerful tool to retailers focused on an area – customer service – that increasingly drives online success and failure, and its neutral market positioning gives its trustmark program added weight and value.
MOE Profile | Website

Infocommerce Group continually scans the data landscape to identify products that are pioneering or perfecting business models, exhibit best practices or offer technological innovation. Those that are re-setting the standards for the industry are named each year as Models of Excellence, based on content, utility, functionality, revenue, viability, ambition, and market readiness. It will discuss what distinguishes each of this year’s winners in a webcast at noon on Oct. 2.

Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager for the SIIA Content Division. Follow the Content Division team on Twitter at @SIIAContent

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DataContent Early-Bird Registration Ends Today: Save $300

September 9, 2013 By

At DataContent 2013, we will identify best practices and trends in Data Content and Publishing, providing you with an insider view of what is working and where things are heading so you can leverage data in your business to deliver new products and services to your customers.

Russell Perkins and the InfoCommerce Group have partnered with the SIIA to present DataContent 2013, October 15-17, in Philadelphia. Over two days, teams from media, publishing and information services companies will learn how to turn data into successful new data products.

Early-bird registration ends TODAY. To save $300 on your DataContent 2013 registration.
To register and receive your Early-bird Discount, please register at: www.siia.net/datacontent/2013/register.asp

For your convenience, here are other relevant links to learn about the event:

On behalf of everyone at the SIIA and the InfoCommerce Group, we hope to see you in October!

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Registration Now Open for the 2014 Information Industry Summit (IIS)

August 20, 2013 By

There is a reason that IIS is called the summit for information industry leaders, IIS explores breakthrough strategies, ideas, case studies and tactics to help them lead their information companies. It draws leaders from media, publishing and information services companies as well as the technology, private equity and other organizations serving them, including:

  • CEOs, COOs, Presidents, and Division Heads of global and mid-sized information, publishing and media companies,
  • Managing Partners from top private equity firms, and
  • CEOs of emerging companies transforming our industry

We just opened up registration and I welcome everyone  to reserve their spot now at the Summit.  This year will be a bit unique in that NYC will be a LOT busier than usual due to an event on February 2nd in the NYC/NJ area.   So, if ever there was a year to reserve your Summit tickets early as well as get your plane tickets hotel room early (while they are still cheap and available) , this is the year to do it!  We have already reserved room blocks at TWO separate hotels in anticipation of the lack of Hotel space.  And, we have already made reservations for dinners a number of NYC venues for IIS attendees in anticipation of lack of availability that week.

Here are some key links:

I look forward to seeing you in January.

  Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager for the SIIA Content Division. Follow the Content Division team on Twitter at @SIIAContent

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SIIA to Launch Mobile Essentials Webinar Series Starting August 15

August 8, 2013 By

SIIA announced the launch of a new webinar series today, one that will be the definitive guide for ”mobile-first” publishing and creating a mobile business. The Mobile Essentials webinar series, which kicks off August 15, will provide actionable intelligence to help publishers, media companies, and information services providers better serve an increasingly mobile audience.

Produced by SIIA’s Business & Niche Information Group – which includes the SIIA Content Division, SIIA’s new SIPA (Specialized Information Publishers Association) and ABM (Association of Business Information and Media) divisions as well as the SIIA Software Division – the Mobile Essentials series will feature six webinars over the next several months.

Registration is free to SIIA members and available here.

  • Making the Business Case – August 15

Emphasizing the importance of mobile applications in the B2B world, this webinar aims to answer the question, Why move to mobile?  It will explore the need for publishers to adopt mobile applications and invest time, money, and energy in mobile products.

  • Monetization and Business Models – September 19

This webinar will outline various business models that can maximize revenue.  There are several options available to publishers, which include selling an app or giving it away with the hopes of upselling users to a premium service or generating ad revenue.

  • Understanding Your Mobile Customers/ Readers – October 24

This webinar will examine how to strategically use analytics to improve your business.  It will help publishers better understand their mobile customers and viewers.

  • “Editorial and Content Strategy” – November 21

This webinar will explore different techniques that will make it easier for users to consume content regardless of the mobile device they use.

  • “Technology Primer” – December 19

This webinar will be an easy-to-understand primer on the tools available to support content, design, subscriptions, data and advertising in order to create a successful mobile product.  It will discuss the technologies that will unlock the full potential of the mobile platform from the tools that streamline content flow; audience and performance analytics; design tools that optimize both user experience and advertising impressions; and social media monitoring tools.

  • “Case Studies” – January 16

This webinar will review cutting edge multimedia apps that are redesigning the “magazine” concept as well as utility apps that are jump-starting the mobile experience by offering on-demand data to SMS and texting services.

Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager for the SIIA Content Division.

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Meet New SIIA Member – Content Analyst

June 20, 2013 By

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Meet Content Analyst, the innovators behind the powerful CAAT analytics engine and a new member of the SIIA’s Content Division. We sat down with Content Analyst’s VP of Marketing, Steven Toole, to learn more about this unique company as well as emerging trends in analytics.

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Steven Toole

Steven Toole, VP of Marketing, Content Analyst Company

Kathy: Tell me about Content Analyst Company. What do you do?

Steven: Content Analyst Company provides a powerful and proven Concept-aware Advanced Analytics engine that exponentially reduces the time needed to discern relevant information from unstructured data. CAAT®, our dynamic suite of text analytics technologies, delivers significant value wherever knowledge workers need to extract insights from large amounts of unstructured data. Our capabilities are easily integrated into any software solution, and our support strategy for our partners is second to none.

Kathy: What kinds of companies does Content Analyst look to partner with?

Steven: We license our CAAT advanced analytics engine to software companies, information services providers and systems integrators that are looking to dramatically improve their end customers’ ability to find, organize and discover relevant information among large collections of unstructured data.

CAAT is proven effective with dozens of software product companies in the areas of e-discovery, US Intelligence and several

Kathy Greenler Sexton, VP & GM, SIIA Content Division

other markets involving vast amounts of unstructured documents and emails.

We partner with companies in the areas of information services, email and enterprise archiving, compliance, web content management, social media, and other markets defined by unstructured content in great volumes.

Our ideal partner has a customer-driven need to better organize unstructured data, a development team to work with our Product Solutions Group to integrate our software APIs, and a vision to address end customers’ need to organize unstructured data more effectively.

Kathy: Who does Content Analyst sell to?

Steven: Content Analyst Company licenses our proprietary CAAT concept-aware advanced analytics engine to software companies, information services companies, and systems integrators looking to provide their end customers with more effective ways to find, organize and discover relevant content amidst large volumes of unstructured documents, email, and web content.

Kathy: What is unique about what Content Analyst does?

Steven: Unlike Boolean keyword search, or other natural language processing technologies, CAAT uses concept-aware advanced analytics.  CAAT does not require the use of any dictionaries, thesauri, ontologies or libraries in order to derive conceptual meaning from a set of unstructured content.  Rather, CAAT uses example documents or sections of text to define a category.  CAAT then identifies conceptually similar content among millions of entries, regardless of misspellings, acronyms, abbreviations, etc.  In addition, CAAT’s capabilities can be applied in any language – again, without any cross-referencing, dictionaries or word libraries.

The CAAT suite of full capabilities includes example based auto-categorization, conceptual search, content summarization, dynamic clustering, email threading, text near duplicate identification and conceptual near duplicate identification.

In addition, Content Analyst Company is committed to developing mutually successful, long term partnerships with the companies that license our technology.  Content Analyst provides advanced analytics training and certification, code reviews, and full integration support of our CAAT advanced analytics APIs.  Content Analyst continuously innovates our CAAT advanced analytics engine, with a semi-annual product release schedule.  ContentCare® is Content Analyst’s partner support program, providing comprehensive resources designed to ensure partners’ success with the CAAT advanced analytics engine.

Kathy: What do you see as the biggest trends in the industry in the next 12-18 months?

Steven: Software companies whose applications manage unstructured content know that Big Data is very real, and the need to manage and effectively use the data provides an opportunity for all of us.

Software companies and information services companies are starting to realize that semantic advanced analytics  technology can understand the ‘meaning’ of unstructured documents, and is a key in the drive to taming the unstructured content of big data.  Software companies that have products for enterprise content management, archiving and compliance; social media monitoring, and human capital management – all face the challenges of managing vast amounts of unstructured content.  By taking a small number of documents as examples, and using concept-aware auto categorization to say “go find more like these,” the potential impact on taming big data is amazing.

Despite the hype around big data, few will disagree that it poses challenges and benefits if managed properly, and fewer still will disagree that it’s going away anytime soon.  Relying on manual taxonomies is simply not practical, as the volume, velocity and variety of content comprising big data accelerates virtually at the speed of thought.

Concept-aware auto categorization has proven itself as a highly effective, extremely fast and incredibly precise approach in legal e-discovery and US intelligence.  The possibilities are endless for applying this technology to address the major obstacles big data poses, while simultaneously harvesting the broad benefits big data stands to offer.

Kathy: What does Content Analyst hope to get out of its SIIA Membership?

Steven: Content Analyst believes that software and information services companies can drive strong incremental value for their customers through the concept aware auto categorization technology that CAAT has long provided in e-discovery and US Intelligence.   Content Analyst joined SIIA to help educate members about game-changing advanced analytics that can help differentiate software and information solutions dealing with large amounts of unstructured content, documents and email.  We invite all SIIA members to take a look at CAAT by Content Analyst and schedule a live demonstration at www.ContentAnalyst.com.

Kathy: Is there any recent news that you’d like to announce? 

Steven: For nearly 10 years, Content Analyst Company has focused heavily on providing advanced analytics to vendors in the e-discovery and US Intelligence communities.  We joined SIIA in early 2013 to expand on our proven success in these markets, and forge technology alliances with software and information services companies looking to provide robust text analytics capabilities for their customers, in any language.

In June 2013, we introduced CAAT Definer 1.0, – the world’s first GUI-based concept-aware utility that facilitates the process of identifying the highest quality conceptual auto categorization examples – in any language.   Quite simply, CAAT Definer helps users define high quality example sets for maximum accuracy and precision in concept based auto categorization.

Kathy: What is the best way for people to get in touch with Content Analyst?

Twitter handle:  @Content_Analyst
Email:  info@ContentAnalyst.com
Company URL:  www.ContentAnalyst.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SIIA Announces First Round of Presenting Companies Annual Strategic & Financial Investment Conference

May 15, 2013 By

SIIA today announced the initial group of companies slated to present at its 2013 Strategic & Financial Investment Conference, held June 13 at New York City’s Princeton Club.

The Strategic & Financial Investment Conference is an invitation-only conference for qualified strategic and financial investment professionals. These individuals represent the corporate finance and corporate development groups of public and private corporations, venture capital and private equity firms, banks and others seeking strategic and financial investments, and acquisition and partnership opportunities.   The conference provides presenting companies a unique opportunity to tell their story and to network with key industry players.

The initial slate of presenting companies includes:

For additional conference details and to apply to present, visit http://www.siia.net/investment/2013/presenting.asp

WHO: Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
WHAT: Strategic & Financial Investment Conference
WHEN: 13 June 2013
WHERE: The Princeton Club (15 W. 43rd St., New York, NY)

Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager for the SIIA Content Division.

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ABM AND SIIA ANNOUNCE PLAN TO JOIN FORCES

April 12, 2013 By

I am thilled to share the news that ABM and SIIA plan to merge. From the calls, emails, posts and tweets I am personally recieving and reading, I can see that many in our industry as just as excited as I am about this merger. I know I speak for all at the SIIA when I say this, I look forward to working with the talented ABM team and all of their members to build a great association for our business information, publishing and media industry.

Here is some early coverage from FOLIO:, B2B Magazine, MediaPost,  Associations Now and eMedia Vitals.

Here is a copy of the release:   

ABM AND SIIA ANNOUNCE PLAN TO JOIN FORCES

Merger to create the comprehensive business information and media industry association

NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 – ABM, the association of business information and media companies, and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced today that they plan to merge in order to form the comprehensive, global business information and media industry association.

This plan is the result of 18 months of effort and commitment by the ABM staff and board of directors to preserve the association’s 107-year-old legacy while gaining sufficient scale to represent the full range of b-to-b business models.

“Our members are rapidly evolving and expanding their businesses with new capabilities, business models and platforms – and that requires access to new thought leadership, research and networking,” said ABM President & CEO Clark Pettit. “The combination of SIIA and ABM creates the breadth and scale required to powerfully represent, promote and defend the entire business information and media industry. It creates the nexus that brings together all relevant business models and technologies and forms a platform for future strategic alliances.”

The plan is for ABM to merge with SIIA’s Content Division. ABM’s services will continue while it seeks opportunities to drive more industry and member value through tighter integration with SIIA. Importantly, the two organizations will also join forces in government affairs, creating a powerful global force in important legal and public policy debates across a wide range of issues impacting members’ business practices and revenues.

“Together our memberships form the cornerstone of b-to-b,” said SIIA President Ken Wasch. “By joining forces, we can bring the entire industry together and magnify opportunities for connection – so the right people can connect in the right environments and bring innovations to market.”

Approved unanimously by both the ABM and SIIA boards of directors, the plan is subject to approval by the ABM membership later this month at its Annual Conference.

For more information, visit a microsite dedicated to the merger at http://www.thenewabm.com/.

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About ABM:

Founded in 1906, ABM is positioned at the center of the global b-to-b ecosystem. As the only industry association focused on the entire b-to-b business model – data, events, information, marketing services and media – ABM delivers intelligence to industry professionals worldwide, including Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway. ABM’s 200-plus member companies reach an audience of more than 100 million professionals and represent nearly 4,000 print and online titles and over 1,000 trade shows, with more than $20 billion in annual revenues.

About SIIA:

The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age.

The SIIA Content Division serves the media, publishing, information services and technology companies that drive the $462 billion content industry. The division is dedicated to helping its members successfully navigate the dramatic changes in content creation, business models, and technology impacting the content industry. Member companies create, publish, and deliver content across all online, mobile and digital platforms; produce content-focused software applications and tools; develop enabling technologies; and offer services focused on the content industry. For more information, visit www.siia.net/content

 

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