Inxight Software, Inc. was a

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specializing in

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, information retrieval and

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. It was bought by

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in 2007; Business Objects was in turn acquired by

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in 2008. Founded in 1997, Inxight was headquartered in

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. It was originally spun out of

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Products

Inxight offered text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries: * LinguistX for the identification of stems, parts of speech, and noun phrases. * Summarizer for the identification of key phrases and key sentences. * ThingFinder for the identification of entities and grammatical patterns, such as "facts", events, relations, and sentiment. This was built on a proprietary pattern-matching language. * Categorizer for matching a document to nodes in a taxonomy hierarchy. And also visualization products: * StarTree, a

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and graph visualization/navigation tool. * TableLens, a trend visualization tool for large data sets. * TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool. This functionality is now available via SAP Hybri
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and is embedded in various SAP platforms (such as SAP HANA and SAP Data Services).

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External links

Inxight website
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SAP website
Software companies based in California Defunct software companies of the United States Companies based in Sunnyvale, California Xerox spin-offs

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