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Dave Sonnen, Consultant, Spatial Information Management Research
Sue Feldman, Research Vice President, Content Technologies
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About IDC
IDC (International Data Corporation) is a market research and consulting firm that supports the strategic planning needs of all segments of the high-tech industry. IDC assists information technology professionals in developing strategic plans, measuring market opportunity, anticipating technology, monitoring competition, selecting distribution channels, and evaluating the impact of industry events.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From "MetaCarta Unlocks Geographic Content in a Global Energy Firm" January 2007
Geographic information is a vital component of energy exploration. Drilling in the wrong location can cost an energy company hundreds of millions of dollars while drilling in the right place can lead to a multibillion-dollar gusher. It’s critical to look at all the information that is available to make informed decision and that information is usually stored in many places, in many formats, and in many applications. Yet geography is often an important facet for unifying access to both unstructured and structured content. End users within this global energy company needed an effective way to retrieve information within their corporate knowledge base, and to rapidly find content that was locked in more than fifty information silos. With its geospatial information retrieval solution, MetaCarta provided unified access to these silos for the petroleum engineers, geologists, and other specialists who needed to conduct research, analyze problems, and make decisions.
Whit Andrews, Vice President Research / Analyst
Jeff Vining, Vice President Research / Analyst
Allen Weiner, Managing VP
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About Gartner, Inc.
Gartner, Inc. is an independent provider of IT advisory and market intelligence and research services worldwide. Founded in 1979, the firm targets IT decision makers and senior-level executives. Its primary business consists of research and analysis of significant IT developments and trends, and the application, direction, management, measurement, and evaluation of technology. The firm also hosts annual conferences, symposia, briefings, audio conferences, video conferences, and vendor exhibitions for IT decision makers worldwide. Gartner also conducts customized consulting engagements focused on the management of IT infrastructure within the enterprise.
Gartner is divided in several divisions, including Gartner Research and Advisory Services, its research and advisory unit; Gartner Consulting, its custom consulting unit; Gartner Community, its events and peer networking unit; Gartner Measurement, its set of database, measurement, and modeling tools; and Gartner.com (www.gartner.com), its interactive unit and online compliment.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From "Mapping the News" March 2008
"What separates MetaCarta's service is that it combines crisp data visualization with the ability to search by topic and location..., allowing fairly deep personalization."
From "Update on Emerging Technologies" August 2005
"MetaCarta offers an alternative to the hand-coded standards-based approach used by Yahoo, Google, and others, in that the system can learn new location information for itself and can pull information from free text without exact keyword matches. For example, the question "Where have there been pipeline explosions?" would search a document base and use the results to generate a map of locations where explosions had occurred ("pipeline explosion" would be a straight forward keyword search, but the location information would match across many different types of description.) It can also use a body of text to answer questions such as "What happened in this location?"
Mike Boland, Senior Analyst
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About The Kelsey Group
The Kelsey Group (TKG) is the leading provider of strategic research and analysis, data and competitive metrics on Yellow Pages, electronic directories and local media. The company provides high-value market intelligence and actionable recommendations in the form, and at the time, clients need them.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From Blog Entry "MetaCarta: A Better Mousetrap for Geotargeting?" August 2007
"Applications based on MetaCarta’s technology can conversely allow users to specify what geographies they are interested in, not only providing them a service but also gaining this valuable data in the process."
Mark Smith, CEO & Senior Vice President of Research
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About Ventana Research
Ventana Research is the pre-eminent research and advisory services firm in the Business Performance Management market. With the unique research framework covering both the technology and business aspects of performance management, Ventana Research helps decision-makers throughout the organization understand each other's requirements, align goals and objectives, and optimize business processes with existing and new technology investments. Ventana Research covers the business processes of customer relationships, supply chain, financials, operations, and workforce performance management. The technology coverage covers applications, tools, platforms and technologies from existing technology markets including analytics, business intelligence, business process management, data warehousing, enterprise applications, enterprise portals, and knowledge management.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From "The Where in BI - Lack of Location in BI Hinders Potential Value for Business" 02 JUN 2005 by Mark Smith
"Organizations that want to maximize the potential of existing BI investments and provide better context for business users (including their customer) should examine Location-based technology. Ventana Research recommends that business and IT further examine how Location can play a critical role in enabling the Operation Performance Management and improve organization capabilities to align, optimize, and understand performance."
Geoffrey Turner, Senior Analyst
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About Forrester
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) is an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology. For more than 24 years, Forrester has been making leaders successful every day through its proprietary research, consulting, events, and peer-to-peer executive programs.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From Press Release “MetaCarta Introduces Industry-specific Online Geographic Search" April 2007
"GeoIntel for Petroleum’s unparalleled industry-specific targeted search and GIS integration capabilities provide a unique and powerful tool for situational awareness in the fast-paced energy industry."
Bette Brunelle, Affiliate Analyst - Clifton Park, New York
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About Outsell
Outsell, Inc. is a research and advisory service that focuses solely on the information content industry. The firm aims to provide timely and in-depth research, analysis, and advisory services to help professionals who create, aggregate, market, deploy and use information content in all major market sectors around the world. The firm's research and consulting services also help to identify the key players in the information content market, how they acquire and use information content, and how information technology shapes the information content market. The firm researches over 3,000 information content companies annually and tracks corporate, education and government buyer markets, and the Global 2000 and government agencies. Outsell offers an array of services to provide its clients with the latest information on the information content industry. These services range from custom reports and benchmarking studies to training services and a weekly news brief.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From "Visual Search Future Mapped by MetaCarta" June 2007
"But the remarkable thing is not the application so much as the concept that textual ideas are made concrete in a graphical format, which can then be manipulated to fine tune the text search. Whether you imagine a huge multinational corporation managing teams by a combination of personnel files and office locations, or a physician working through evidence by manipulating an atlas of a body, perhaps along with dragging and dropping procedures or medications, the idea of using concrete, immediately understandable visual elements to move efficiently through text is immensely appealing and adds a dimension to the search experience which resembles gaming and fun. It’s hard to believe that the long-term future for many kinds of search won't be oriented towards such a technology."
Susan Aldrich, Senior Vice President/Senior Consultant/Analyst
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About The Patricia Seybold Group
The Patricia Seybold Group specializes in helping companies with their business' best practices and technology architecture decisions. Founded in 1978 and based in Boston, the firm offers customized consulting services, an online strategic research service, executive workshops, and in-depth research reports. Patricia Seybold Group consultants specialize in topical areas and draws upon hands-on research to produce reports and news analysis pieces for the firm's online research service and consulting practice.
Recent MetaCarta Coverage
From "Search Product and Company Update" August 2006
"MetaCarta's offerings inevitably evoke thoughts of Google Earth. Google Earth is great news for MetaCarta, because it has people from all sorts of industries and backgrounds thinking about the value of geographic information. Google Earth essentially performs market education for MetaCarta. What MetaCarta does, and Google Earth doesn't, is mine text for information that can be used to pinpoint the geographic locations of the key subjects of documents, and then provide the semantics that makes it possible to search for (and retrieve) 'landslides in Central America'."