I’m very happy to report that IDC has named Mark Logic “an innovation information access company under $100M to watch.” IDC’s press release is here and a copy of the ($3500 a la carte paid) report is here.
Excerpt:
New technologies are eliminating boundaries between content and data to enable pervasive access to all relevant information. Contributing to this innovation is a group of small companies with the vision and technology to have an impact on the IT marketplace. IDC invited search, business intelligence, and content management companies with less than $100 million in revenue in 2008 to enter our Innovation Awards contest.
The complete list of innovative information access companies follows, in alphabetical order:
- Carefx, a pretty interesting company that provides healthcare information systems.
- Connotate, a company that aims to provide KM and BI on content using intelligent software agent technology.
- Exalead, a French enterprise search company that seems to be benefiting from the vacuum created by the acquisitions in and around enterprise search — e.g., Microsoft’s acquisition of Fast, Autonomy’s acquisition of Verity, and the general loss of focus on enterprise search at Autonomy resulting from their transition to a more consolidation / financial engineering strategy (e.g., the Zantaz and Interwoven acquisitions).
- FatWire, a mid-tier WCM company who currently positions as web experience management and who seems to be enjoying a resurgence under my old TPC colleague, Yogesh Gupta. These guys also seem to be benefiting from consolidation of the tier 1 players above them (e.g., EMC buying Documentum, Oracle buying Stellent) as well as from good, old-fashioned improved execution.
- Jaspersoft, a provider of open source BI, led by Brian Gentile, former marketing chief at Informatica and Brio. In its current incarnation (I think it’s been through a few different strategies), it competes for market leadership with Pentaho, whose marketing is run by the very able Lance Walter, a member of my marketing team at Business Objects.
- Mark Logic, the leading provider of XML servers, a type of enterprise infrastructure software for information applications.
- NetBase, a content intelligence vendor whose message sounds a lot like Mark Logic’s but which uses very different, and much more semantic, technology. These were the folks who had the tragicomical healthBase demo incident a few months back. Accidents aside, the technology looks interesting.
- Recommind, who makes search-powered information risk management software who, as I understand things, has a strong focus on legal with an emphasis on e-discovery, classification, and compliance. They presumably compete with my friend Aaref Hilaly‘s company, Clearwell Systems, who have successfully carved out a leadership position in several boxes of the e-discovery reference model.
- Vivismo, an enterprise search vendor whose initial market assault was based on dynamic clustering technology, but who now positions much more as a regular enterprise search vendor (e.g., search done right).
I’d like to thank IDC for the recognition in being selected to this list. We are honored to have been chosen and fully agree that we are a company to watch in changing the information technology landscape moving forward.
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