Business Objects Acquires Inxight
In an effort to marry structured and unstructured data, Business Objects has acquired Inxight Software.
Inxight, a Xerox Parc spinout, was among the early entrants into the unstructured data/tagging market. Primarily an OEM provider of multilingual part-of-speech tagging, Inxight has made an effort in recent years to expand into the enterprise and government markets, to mixed results.
I've long felt the UDM market was long due for consolidation. With this deal, following Reuters acquisition of ClearForest, that is beginning to occur. What's less certain is whether the BOBJ-Inxight deal will lead to true integration of structured and unstructured data, or whether Inxight will largely remain a niche component.
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