In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the federal government hired Brentwood-based Digital Reasoning to help fight terrorism with its technology.

And when the financial crisis erupted in 2008, banks realized they needed better ways to spot internal trouble spots, and turned to Digital Reasoning.

As the world's largest and least regulated financial market, and with close to $5.3 trillion dollars being traded each day – the foreign exchange market seems primed for manipulation. Just in the last 48 hours the investigation into alleged abuse has broadened to Switzerland, Hong Kong and New Zealand and is keeping regulators across the globe scrambling for answers.

At the beginning of each release cycle, engineers at Digital Reasoning are given time to explore the latest in Big Data technologies, examining how the frequently changing landscape might be best adapted to serve our mission. As we sat down in the early stages of planning for Synthesys 3.8 one of the biggest issues we faced involved reconciling the tradeoff between flexibility and performance. How can users quickly and easily retrieve knowledge from Synthesys without being tied to one strict data model?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 5, 2014 – Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, today announced that their machine learning platform, Synthesys®, has been honored with a 2014 GRC Technology Innovation Award by independent GRC analyst firm GRC 20/20.

The third annual GRC Technology Innovation Awards recognize technologies that are revolutionizing the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) market. Fifteen technologies were selected out of 62 applicants after being carefully evaluated for their innovation.

Digital Reasoning will be exhibiting at ACAMS' annual international conference on Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime. According to ACAMS, "delegates representing the world's leading banks, securities firms, and government and law enforcement agencies, will gather to assess the global impact of financial crime and offer insight on innovative best practices, methods and trends to mitigate the impact of these offenses on not only financial institutions and related businesses but society as a whole." Digital Reasoning works with many of the leading global banks and financial services organizations and their most demanding use cases to identify previously unknown relationships, networks, activities and behaviors. Stop by and visit us at Booth #203.

The Compliance & Legal Seminar is SIFMA’s annual marquee event designed for the Financial Services, Compliance & Legal communities that brings together leading experts who represent capital markets, regulatory agencies, and partnering law firms to discuss the most critical issues currently facing financial services and how to best address them in 2014.  Visit Digital Reasoning at booth #200 to learn more about how Synthesys is aiding financial institutions in the area of proactive compliance with technology that understands human communication.

The GEOINT Symposium hosted by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, is the nation’s preeminent intelligence event bringing together an exciting agenda of keynote speakers, panel discussions, and breakout sessions providing attendees a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts, share best practices, and uncover the latest developments from government, military and private-sector leaders.

We’re so excited to start 2014 with our latest platform release, Synthesys 3.8. This release, like previous ones, moves the bar forward in terms of our industry-leading advanced analytics; it also includes innovations that we’ve been working on through the course of 2013 and that are focused on providing aggregated knowledge of people, places and activities – delivered using new real-time query capabilities and a whole new user experience we call Synthesys Glance™.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. January 29, 2014 – Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, today announced General Availability of Synthesys® 3.8, the latest release of their patented machine learning platform. 

Digital Reasoning is proud to sponsor the first annual PyTennessee Regional Conference, welcoming Python beginners and experts to the great city of Nashville where participants will collaborate and learn new Python skills during info sessions, workshops and lightening talks. Make sure to check out Digital Reasoning CTO Matthew Russell's session, Why Twitter is All the Rage from a Data Miner's Perspective.

At this joyous time of year, we are grateful for our many talented employees, valued clients and integral partners. We wish you all happiness, peace, and prosperity in the new year. 

Here at Digital Reasoning we spend a lot of time living in the cloud thinking about how we can leverage cloud infrastructures and how our clients can experience our products in new and innovative ways.  Cloud computing offers a variety of features and benefits, but for us one of the biggest advantages is the flexibility it offers.  

Digital Reasoning is proud to exhibit at the 2013 Law Enforcement & Homeland Security Forum and Technology Exposition, which is being presented by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and Interagency Council for Applied Homeland Security Technology (ICAHST).

In partnership with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Foreign Language Program Office, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture (LREC) is proud to present the Intelligence Community Human Language Technology (HLT) Showcase.

In a budget-constrained federal environment, a common mantra is “do more with less.” With Digital Reasoning’s machine-learning platform, Synthesys®, it is now possible to augment analysts by enabling these valuable individuals to quickly analyze troves of data that would normally have taken many thousands of analysts an inordinate amount of time to complete.

Analysts today are often still unable to efficiently mine their poorly structured data (e.g. social media, email communications, instant messaging, etc.) This presents a real analysis challenge for policy and decision makers, as information isn’t transformed to knowledge quickly enough, and when expedited, the information isn’t always as accurate as expected.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. November 13, 2013 — Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, today announced it was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™. Deloitte’s Fast 500 list provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in North America as a way to recognize them for their technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth. Digital Reasoning also announced the appointment of Abe Danziger as its senior vice president services, and the opening of its first European office in London, United Kingdom.

LAS VEGAS November 13, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, today announced at the AWS re:Invent conference that it will offer a cloud version of its Synthesys® Machine Learning Platform via the AWS Marketplace. Synthesys Cloud consists of an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that contains all the software necessary to run Synthesys on an Hadoop/HBase cluster under Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

NEW YORK October 28, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Matthew Russell, will be presenting today at O’Reilly’s Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City. Russell’s workshop entitled “Mining Social Web APIs with IPython Notebook” discusses how to minimize barriers to exploring valuable data from various social media web properties like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

What Is HackNashville?

One might describe it, if one were a programmer, as pure awesomeness - a feeling of being one with the Force for 48 hours of pure happiness and joy.

Of course, the only time that feeling is applicable is right after you demo your app for which you sacrificed 2 nights of sleep, personal hygiene, and proper nutrition. 

Then you just want to sleep.

Unstructured data — everything from social media posts and sensor data to email, images and web logs — is growing at an unprecedented pace. Here are just a few mind-blowing statistics: Twitter sees about 175 million tweets each day and has more than 465 million accounts. 571 new websites are created every minute of every day. And the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day from unstructured data sources like sensors, social media posts and digital photos. Clearly, unstructured data is growing exponentially, and government is no exception. 

It’s been only five years since the global financial crisis of 2008. At the time it seemed like the domino effect of bank failures, the liquidity crisis and the ensuing global recession was enough to bring down even the strongest of financial infrastructures. But as governments around the world took the necessary steps to slow and eventually stop the crisis, banks, regulators and economists were given the opportunity to analyze exactly what went wrong.

Say you work for a large bank that has been embroiled in a crisis or scandal. In the discovery processes of the inevitable lawsuits that follow, investigators and lawyers (and in some cases, the U.S. Senate) find all manner of incriminating emails that the bank's risk and compliance departments did not know existed.

We decided to take our expertise with Salt, Django, and simple user interfaces and craft an easily consumable REST API, and a no-brainer user interface that would allow anyone, with minimal training, to create Stacks of Hosts that would be automatically launched, provisioned, and managed. We felt it should also include administrative features like user groups, permissions, reporting, automated rules, notifications, and lease periods. These features would help alleviate the problem of mistaken termination and leaving instances running while not in use.

The fact that data is doubling every two years mimics one of electronics’ most famous laws: Moore’s law. In 1965 Gordon Moore stated that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubled approximately every two years and he expected the trend to continue “for at least 10 years.” Forty-five years later, Moore’s law still influences many aspects of IT and electronics. As a consequence of Moore’s law, technology is more affordable and the latest innovations help engineers and scientists capture, analyze, and store data at rates faster than ever before.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. October 3, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, is pleased to be named by CIO Review to the CR Big Data 20, an annual listing of the 20 most promising technology companies offering Big Data Solutions. This list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members of CIO Review’s editorial board to recognize and promote technology entrepreneurship.

It is sometimes difficult to remember that the World Wide Web on the Internet made its debut to the general public only about 22 years ago with Tim Berners-Lee’s first post to the alt.hypertext newsgroup. Yet, during that relative short time, it has had a profound impact on the availability of new sources of information, accessibility and flexibility. The Internet and its ability to turn anybody into a publisher has led to a virtual explosion of data (i.e. “Big Data”) that does not lend itself well to traditional analysis and management tools.

Washington, D.C. September 11, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of human communication, is pleased to announce that its CEO and founder, Tim Estes, will be speaking today at the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) briefing at the Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector Summit.

Digital Reasoning will be exhibiting at this year's Strata Conference + Hadoop World where big data's most influential decision makers, architects, developers, and analysts gather to shape the future of their businesses and technologies.

Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of human communication, is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued the company a patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,457,950 B1) for a system and method for coreference resolution. This recently issued patent is part of a patent portfolio that includes 5 issued patents and numerous other pending patent applications.

Beginning September 23, 2013, ACAMS will present its 12th Annual AML and Financial Crime Conference in Las Vegas, NV. ACAMS is the largest international membership organization dedicated to enhancing the knowledge and expertise of AML/CTF and financial crime detection and prevention professionals, from a wide range of industries, in both the public and private sectors.

Emails, Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and social media such as instant messaging and news feeds contain millions of facts about entities (people, organizations, and locations).  Identifying which entities represent a real-world person, organization or location across millions of documents and merging them to aggregate knowledge about them is a major challenge for enterprises and government agencies.

On September 20, 2013, AFCEA Intelligence and the Office of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence will present a one day classified forum examining the state of intelligence in the U.S. Army. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of Army intelligence requirements in a changing fiscal and operational environment, plus a sense of where the private sector can best contribute to support Army intelligence.

Digital Reasoning is proud to be a Silver-Level sponsor of this event; this year's event theme is "Teaming with Industry - Army Intelligence 2020 and Beyond".

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Synthesys, Digital Reasoning’s machine learning platform that ferrets out meaning in unstructured data at scale, is bringing its smarts to compliance use cases for organizations, such as financial institutions. (See this article for more insight into the technology behind the company’s software.)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. July 29, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of human communication, today announced the General Availability of Synthesys® v3.7, the latest release of their patented machine learning platform. As a result, organizations can now monitor and analyze email traffic in near real-time to quickly identify risks and suspicious behavior that could present regulatory or reputational risks.

“We worry a lot about how do we make sure we are listening when we should be listening,” said David Reilly, technology infrastructure executive at Bank of America. “It’s all too easy for a large enterprise to focus on the very effective partners we already have, the very large and effective partners who give us great service. But that can make you sometimes tune out a little bit and not go out of your way to listen to a company with a great solution they they haven’t learned how to pitch.”

It wasn’t that long ago when compliance was considered an afterthought by many financial institutions. With the top line being “the priority”, banks haven’t always been able to see the true benefits of compliance, and therefore make the right investments and adopt the right strategies.

With recent compliance-related losses at many leading financial institutions, the associated regulatory penalties, loss of customer confidence and overall reputational exposure, banks are taking a serious look at their compliance programs and rethinking their compliance strategies.

NEW YORK, July 15, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of human communications, is using advanced machine learning technology to help financial institutions analyze human generated data to identify risks and anticipate suspicious activity that can have a damaging effect on their business. As a result, financial services firms become more proactive about managing their compliance risks; moving beyond transactional monitoring systems and responding to discovery requests in the context of ongoing investigations.

The Mission: Chapter 1, Volume 2013

We’d like to welcome you to our story.

We say it is our story but it really isn’t. It’s a story in which we at Digital Reasoning play a role, but we cannot claim sole authorship. Even as a founder, you realize that nothing you have created is here without the tireless effort of others and the opening that is provided by circumstance and calling.

Nashville, July 10, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of human communications, today announced the addition of two seasoned enterprise software executives to its team. Following several years of growth, including a 60% year-over-year increase in the size of its workforce and the opening of offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., Digital Reasoning is pleased to welcome Marten den Haring and Stephen Epstein.  

A civic group launched by private equity pioneer Henry Kravis is working with Accenture to help IT startups make inroads into the city’s financial institutions. Every year, 100 startups from around the world compete for half a dozen spots in a mentoring program that includes big banks and VCs. 

Digital Reasoning's CTO, Matthew Russell, will be a guest speaker at  the 2013 Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City this October. Russell's session, "Mining Social Web APIs with IPython Notebook", will focus on minimizing the barriers to exploring and mining this valuable data by presenting turn-key examples from Mining the Social Web (2nd Edition) with IPython Notebook.

Digital Reasoning exhibited at this year's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Innovation Day on June 26.

Digital Reasoning CEO, Tim Estes, was a guest panelist at this year's Battle of the Quants in London, England, on June 26.

“It’s like saying, I gave Stacy a pen, therefore she’s a journalist,” said ZestFinance CEO Douglas Merrill at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference this March. We’re not automatically great decision makers just because we have big data.

Mountains of unstructured data hold some of the most important answers to the critical problems we face today. Unfortunately, because there is so much data, it’s extremely difficult to uncover the most important information. Illuminating this valuable material enables people discover insights, opportunities, and risks that can make a major impact on decisions that need to be made.

Monitoring electronic conversations just got a lot more powerful with the alliance of Digital Reasoning and OP3Nvoice, announced at SIFMA today.

Digital Reasoning, with roots in defense and intelligence, can search and understand structured and unstructured data and use it to build a view of underlying entities, facts, relationships and discover geospatial and temporal patterns. OP3Nvoice can monitor audio, video and text conversations across channels including fixed lines, mobile and Skype and search and locate conversations very fast.

Digital Reasoning exhibited at SIFMA Tech 2013 in New York City on June 18-19 in the FinTech Innovation Lab Pavilion. 

New York, June 18, 2013 – OP3Nvoice, the conversation intelligence platform, and Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of complex data sets, announced today at SIFMA TECH 2013 a partnership to deliver an expanded solution for the monitoring and analysis of electronic communications.

Ever been stuck behind someone who barged in front of you, only to then move at a much slower pace and hold everyone up? Perhaps it’s the slowpoke in the overtaking lane, or the old lady who elbows you aside on the subway stairs then shuffles down, one step at a time? Or, perhaps, has your firm ever placed a trade knowing you have the fastest infrastructure, only to get held up by third parties or queues of orders at the execution venue?

Digital Reasoning was honored to exhibit at the NSA SIGINT Development Conference & Expo at Ft. Meade, Maryland, on June 4-5. 

Digital Reasoning was a proud sponsor of this year's Hack for Change held here in Nashville, Tenn., on June 1-2. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. June 1, 2013 — Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of complex data sets, is proud to participate in the first annual National Day of Civic Hacking which will take place in cities across America on June 1-2, 2013. The National Day of Civic Hacking is a national initiative created to promote transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and citizens.

Behold the ever expanding rings of tech’s most overhyped sector. Demand is fierce for software, hardware and consulting services that let companies process and store giant streams of varied and frequently changing information. It’s an $18 billion industry heading to $50 billion in five years, according to tech researchers at Wikibon. Make note of the names in the inner circle. They’re the pure plays with the newest science—and are likely to get gobbled up by the growth-hungry incumbents on the outside.

Digital Reasoning was proud to be selected as an exhibitor at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Technology Exposition held in Virginia on May 9.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.– Digital Reasoning, the company that enables automated understanding of complex data sets, was recently named to CRN’s inaugural Big Data 100 list for its work in this burgeoning field. This distinction was given to vendors that demonstrate excellence in several areas, including business analytics, big data management and infrastructure and services.

The founder of Digital Reasoning, a CIA-backed analyitics company, had a little chat today with more than 700 Big Data practitioners about the feelings behind data. Not about how the data makes people feel, but about how feelings helped generate the data. And what he said should catch the attention of anyone wondering what the future of big data analytics has in store.

Digital Reasoning CEO, Tim Estes, was a guest speaker at GigaOm's Structure: Data event in New York City on March 20-21. The panel discussion, "What Does Collaboration Among Humans and Machines Really Look Like?", explored how machines can augment human thinking and the impacts to the workplace.

Even though a perception persists that machines can increasingly solve complex problems and process large amounts of data on their own, machine learning experts say humans still play a key role.

If you’ve ever seen any of The Terminator films, you’re familiar with Skynet, the self-aware computing system at odds with humanity. But, even though a perception persists that machines can increasingly solve complex problems and process large amounts of data on their own, machine learning experts say humans still play a very important role.

Washington, D.C. & Nashville, Tenn., Feb 27, 2013 – Digital Reasoning, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, and Clutch Group, a leader in delivering legal and compliance solutions, announced today at the O’Reilly Strata Conference a revolutionary partnership that brings together processes and technology to Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and eDiscovery markets. This integrated partnership represents the first time that advanced entity analytics has been combined with innovative process to deliver a transformative discovery model for legal and compliance departments for major Fortune 500 companies. This new solution makes it possible to move governance and eDiscovery beyond a document-level analysis to an automated analysis of people, places, organizations and relationships – all while mitigating risk through a rigorous and defensible process.

Digital Reasoning sponsored this year's Strata Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on February 26-28.

New York is rolling into its third year operating the FinTech Innovation Lab which brings together a small group of selected early stage financial technology vendors with leading city banks, Accenture and venture capital firms for three months of intensive collaboration.

Nashville, TN – January 31, 2012 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced Automated Understanding, a suite of innovative capabilities in its flagship product Synthesys®. Automated Understanding analyzes unstructured and structured big data to reveal the hidden and potentially valuable relationships between people, place and time that are essential in defense and intelligence, insurance, law enforcement, healthcare, and financial applications.

Digital Reasoning CEO, Tim Estes, was a guest speaker on January 14 at the London Enterprise Technology Meetup.

The Nashville Post recently named Digital Reasoning in its 2012 list of the top 25 most “distinctive, innovative, and interesting” technology companies here in Middle Tennessee, which are positively affecting both their respective industries and the regional economy.

Technology: Search and analytics of unstructured documents, combined with machine learning and artificial intelligence that “learns” how to identify connections among people and organizations within documents.

ohn Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, doesn’t mince words when it comes to his department’s ambitious plans for using big data.

“In the same way that past federal investments in information technology R&D led to dramatic advances in supercomputing and the creation of the Internet, the initiative we are launching today promises to transform our ability to use big data for scientific discovery, environmental and biomedical research, education, and national security,” Holdren said in March.

ARLINGTON, Va. & NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 24, 2012 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced a partnership with Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software. Synthesys®, Digital Reasoning’s platform for unstructured data analytics, combined with Tableau Desktop 7.0, provides users in government, finance and other markets with a complete solution for addressing today’s fraud, risk, compliance and business opportunity challenges presented by massive amounts of unstructured text.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., and NEW YORK, October 23, 2012 — Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced a partnership with Opera Solutions, the leading global Big Data science company. This integration will expand Opera Solutions’ Signal Hub technology to include unstructured text analytics from Digital Reasoning’s Synthesys, providing a comprehensive Big Data solution for innovative enterprises.

Digital Reasoning, a leading provider of big data analytics solutions, is pleased to announce that its CEO, Tim Estes, will deliver a keynote speech at the upcoming O’Reilly Strata Conference to discuss the applications of big data and the opportunity to improve the human condition.

NASHVILLE, October 3, 2012 – Digital Reasoning™, a leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, announced today that it has become a Silver Partner in OraclePartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized program. By attaining Silver Level membership, Digital Reasoning benefits from Oracle’s complete solutions addressing unstructured data analytics where extreme scale and high performance are key customer needs.

NASHVILLE, September 6, 2012 – Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, is pleased to announce that Cristóbal Conde has joined its board of directors. As a director, Mr. Conde will advise the company as it expands from serving the government and U.S. intelligence agencies and moves into the financial services market.

In Washington, it took three years for entrepreneur Tim Estes to convince the government to take his digital data-mining program seriously.

In New York City’s financial industry, Estes needed just one meeting.

A company says it can help financial institutions spot fraud by analyzing terabytes of internal e-mails.

In Washington, it took three years for entrepreneur Tim Estes to convince the government to take his digital data-mining program seriously. In New York City’s financial industry, Estes needed just one meeting.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. July 23, 2012 – Digital Reasoning has completed a successful engagement with the FinTech Innovation Lab, an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund, the economic development arm of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, and Accenture.  Through this program, Digital Reasoning has had the opportunity to work with leading financial services firms to extend and apply Synthesys, our unique platform for making sense of unstructured data at scale, and tailor it to the specific use cases within the financial services industry.

FinTech Innovation Lab's class of 2012 includes companies creating the next wave of fraud protection, stock gamification, and big-data analytics. Oh, and there's a digital Sherlock Holmes.

FRANKLIN, Tenn.–Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, is pleased to announce Mike Miller as its executive vice president of sales. In his new role, Miller will lead the company’s client acquisition and retention in both government and commercial markets.

ARLINGTON, Va. & NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a trusted government IT solutions provider. Under the agreement, Carahsoft has added Digital Reasoning’s flagship productSynthesys® to its GSA schedule and will provide proactive sales and marketing support to drive demand for the product within the government market.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – (May 19, 2012) – Connotate, Inc., the leading provider of solutions that help organizations monitor and collect data and content from the Web, today announced that it has partnered with Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, to provide government agencies with a simple solution to create actionable intelligence from fact-based analysis of social media’s Big Data.

A front-page story on the New York Times Friday dredged up a three-month-old story about a 32-year-old multimedia producer in Iowa City namedNick Bergus who had an amusing misfire with the newly launched “sponsored stories” on Facebook. To me, it is a tale of how irony can create serious friction for monetization.

Nashville, TN –February 14, 2012 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, will showcase its Automated Understanding capabilities at the O’Reilly Strata Conference being held in Santa Clara, California, February 28 – March 1, 2012.  Tim Estes, CEO and founder of Digital Reasoning, will present a talk entitled Automated Understanding – The Next Evolution in Big Data Analytics on Wednesday, February 29th at 4:00 PM. Digital Reasoning is a Partner Sponsor of the conference’s Data Science track.

Arlington, VA and Nashville, TN – January 4, 2012 – Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced that TeraDact Solutions has integrated their TeraDactor™Information Identification and Presentation (IIaP™) capabilities including the TeraDactor automated redaction engine, with Synthesys® Cloud, a software-as-a-service data analytics solution.  Digital Reasoning launched Synthesys Cloud as a public platform for partners to access the leading entity-oriented analytics solution with the simplicity of a Web service.

Nashville, TN – December 6, 2011 – Digital Reasoning, a leader in understanding unstructured data at scale, today announced it has raised a Series B round with participation from In-Q-Tel, individual partners of Silver Lake, and other private investors. With this round, Digital Reasoning will add John Brennan to its board of directors.  Brennan is a partner at Silver Lake Sumeru.

Linux desktop software certainly has its hard-core fans, but the open-source program has always faced an uphill battle against a proprietary Microsoft Windows product that could pretty much do all the same things (and mostly better), though it cost a few bucks instead of being free. The same scenario goes for many other open-source tools.

But that’s not the story for Apache Hadoop, an open-source program that is gaining converts at government agencies who are trying to draw new insights from all the “big data” they are generating.

Nashville, TN – July 20, 2011 – Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced a recently published Impact Report by independent analyst firm The 451 Group titled, “Digital Reasoning Positions Military-tested Text Analysis Tools for Commercial Market,” is now available for download on the company’s website.

Arlington, VA and Nashville, TN – June 7, 2011 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced Chinese language support for its flagship product Synthesys®. Synthesys can now analyze the unstructured data from a variety of sources in both English and Chinese to uncover potential threats, fraud, and political unrest. By automating this process, intelligence analysts can gain actionable intelligence in context quickly and without translation.

Arlington, VA and Nashville, TN – May 10, 2011 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, today announced it has established a Federal Advisory Board to guide the company’s growing presence in the federal market. Led by industry veteran Mike Miller, the Advisory Board includes General Tom Hobbins (U.S. Air Force, Ret.), Robert Flores, Dr. Anita K. Jones and CAPT Nick Buck (U.S. Navy, Ret.).

Arlington, VA and Nashville, TN – April 26, 2011 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, today announced that is has opened a new office in Arlington, VA and added two highly experienced executives to its leadership team to accelerate growth in the government market. Eric von Eckartsberg joins Digital Reasoning as Vice President of Sales and Dave Danielson joins as Vice President of Marketing. The new office is located at 1001 N. Fillmore St in Arlington, VA and is aligned with Digital Reasoning’s strategy to expand its presence in the U.S. government market.

FRANKLIN, Tenn.– March 15, 2011 –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, today announced it has been issued United States patent #7,882,055 for its distributed system of intelligent software agents for discovering the meaning in text.

Digital Reasoning, Santa Clara, CA – February 2, 2011 – Digital Reasoning™, the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, today announced Synthesys® Platform, an innovative, open, and scalable version of our market- leading software.

Digital Reasoning, based in Franklin, Tennessee, is one of a handful of companies breaking a path through the content jungle. The firm’s approach processes a wide range of “big data”. The system’s proprietary methods make it easy to discern trends, identify high-value items of data, and see the relationships among people, places, and things otherwise lost in the “noise” of digital information.

Data analytics firm Digital Reasoning has landed deal with investment firm In-Q-Tel that will make the Franklin company's technology available within the U.S. intelligence community.

FRANKLIN, Tenn.–(Business Wire – Feb 16, 2011) –Digital Reasoning™, the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, today announced a strategic investment, licensing, and development agreement from In-Q-Tel (IQT), the investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The transaction will make Digital Reasoning’s technology available for use within the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Digital Reasoning will be one of the featured companies speaking and exhibiting at the Strata conference sponsored by O’Reilly Media. This is the first conference that will focus exclusively on the challenges and opportunities of enterprise “Big Data”. We are excited that two of our executives will be speaking at this inaugural Big Data conference – Santa Clara Feb 1-3

Digital Reasoning lit up our radar earlier this year. The company’s work for one of the high-profile agencies in the US government was well received. The company’s technology delivered actionable information, PowerPoint-ready graphics, and blistering performance. We were curious and interviewed Tim Estes, the chief executive officer and founder of Digital Reasoning.