Empolis GmbH (Gütersloh), former arvato-Bertelsmann subsidiary, Attensity Corporation (Palo Alto, Calif., USA) and Living-e AG (Karlsruhe) today announced they have united to form the Attensity Group. This move makes Attensity Group a worldwide market leader in the field of semantic technologies. The new company will employ 300 people worldwide and expects to generate revenues of approx. USD 50 million in 2009.
Together, Attensity Group combines state-of-the-art technology and decades of know-how creating a next-generation international software company that can help shape the new market for semantic processing of unstructured information. The move also represents a breakthrough for companies and organizations using semantic information technologies to analyze and automatically and efficiently process their unstructured data, as they stand to experience a quantum leap in their productivity.
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