Panaton Inc.

Top of the World at the Semantic Technology Conference + Amazon EC2 Release

This week we participated in the SemTech conference in San Jose. We shared a booth with our good friends and colleagues from OntoText. It is a rare to be at a trade show with the best product on the market - well it did happen - the Ontotext OWLIM semantic repository, (Panaton is the US integrator and reseller for Ontotext products), is currently the fastest rdf server on the market and the only one we are aware of that handles 1+ Billion triples with "full" forward inference.

Granted, this is a very big claim to make. Our confidence comes from the published benchmarks and invite everyone to download and validate.

Last, but not least, we have released the alpha of the companion KIM entity extractor, deployed as an Amazon EC2 instance. For the first time we will be able to offer semantic entity extraction as a service, with a utility pricing model. To give this a try - grab an article form your favorite news website and cut & paste its plain text here. (Please note that this is a rather simplistic demo - a real production app uses custom ontology and entity extraction model, of course).

Simple Ideas are the Best

We just came across a fantastic new product - hats off to Vizu http://www.vizu.com. Within 6 hours with Vizu, we were able to conduct a broad market survey that otherwise would have taken us weeks, cost us thousands of dollars and at the end - not given us as much confidence.

Here is what our results looked like (click image for full view):

With Vizu it took 15 minutes to set-up, 6 hours to execute and it cost ... well we are not saying - but we are already running a second poll over the weekend with a follow-up question.

Best of all, our data is meaningful - Vizu makes sure that the results are anchored by sounds statistics.

Vizu makes it easy to do business - the prices are clearly posted, the user interface is simple and easy, and you can complete your poll, target it, pay for it and run it without logging-in more than once.

It was a bit of a deja vu - as if we were using Google AdWords for the first time again...