Synthesys Cloud-based Automated Understanding Empowers Market Solutions

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.

In conjunction with Synthesys, TeraDactor can automatically assist in appropriately classifying information not recognized by the original data provider.   TeraDactor allows participants to push and pull information without waiting for the declassification process, assuring that formerly classified documents may be released without unintended leakages.

“As governments and enterprises comb their data for security threats and competitive issues, secure document sharing is a must, but in order for that disclosure to occur, sensitive data must be controlled,” said Chris Schrichte, President and CEO of TeraDact Solutions.  “By leveraging Synthesys Cloud, we are able to automatically categorize the data, allowing for the most effective and secure sharing of mission critical information in the most timely manner.”

“We are pleased to be partnering with TeraDact as they bring this innovative product to market that ensures sensitive information can be shared safely,” said Tim Estes, Chief Executive Officer, at Digital Reasoning. “This partnership demonstrates the power of Synthesys as a cloud-based data analytics tool in building the next generation of Big Data analytic solutions.”

About Synthesys Cloud

The Synthesys Cloud is an open and scalable web service for data analytics enabling users and developers to easily create innovative solutions that depend on entity-oriented analytics as a component of a complete solution. Built to address the most complicated data analytics challenges, Synthesys excels at extracting, resolving and linking entities and concepts to provide context to the newly discovered information. Synthesys Cloud was launched in early 2011 and has over 30 companies and varying stages of development and testing to bring innovative solutions to market.

About TeraDactor

TeraDactor is an embeddable Web-based proprietary solution that gives organizations effective control of complex document formats and the data contained within them. TeraDactor exposes all visible and hidden content to reviewers, automatic rule sets, and third party software to enable a collaborative review process in which reviewers and potential recipients of reports receive only the appropriate document contents and paragraphs.  The TeraDactor integration toolset allows information managers to leverage TeraDactor for a wide range of missions from real-time compliance checking to fine-grained information control and release of sensitive information to appropriate persons. TeraDactor’s Universal Viewer embeds into any application and leaves all classifiers and their release conditions under application control while extending this control to every review mark.

About TeraDact Solutions, Inc.

TeraDact Solutions’ (www.teradact.com) toolset challenges current sensitive document and information management and sharing policies. Its technology allows information managers to check, version, and release the right information to the right audience at the right time.  TeraDact is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Edmonton, Alberta.  For more information, please visit www.teradact.com.

About Digital Reasoning

Digital Reasoning (www.digitalreasoning.com) provides automated understanding for Big Data.  Automated understanding analyzes unstructured and structured data to reveal the hidden and potentially valuable relationships between people, place and time.  More than a dozen government agencies use Digital Reasoning’s flagship product, Synthesys, to uncover security threats and accelerate the time to actionable intelligence.  The company is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, with a satellite office in Washington, DC which serves its growing government client base.  For more information, please visit www.digitalreasoning.com.

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Top Tier Investor to Join Board

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.

The investment will be used to accelerate development and expand marketing and sales into new Financial Intelligence, Enterprise Risk Management, and related markets with Synthesys®, the company’s flagship product that identifies, summarizes and reveals hidden relationships between people, places and events in big data. Currently, Synthesys is being used in government agencies to uncover security threats and enable intelligence analysts to find and act on critical relationships in big data while containing the costs of and dependence on human reading.

“Organizations in every market are looking for ways to exploit the information and intelligence embedded in unstructured data; Synthesys could be a transformational solution in the enterprise as organizations develop their big data strategies,” said John Brennan. “Digital Reasoning’s platform can go beyond its success in the government intelligence market to help enterprises quickly analyze big data to detect fraud, uncover market trends, gain better insight into customer behavior, and mitigate risk.”

“We are thrilled to have an investment from this caliber of investor and we welcome John to our board. His software and operating experience will help us scale and expand into new markets”, said Tim Estes, CEO at Digital Reasoning. “Until now, the tools available on Big Data have been focused on mostly structured data that is well formed and easily countable.  Now, we can bring rich understanding of human communication- unstructured data- into new markets through a next generation of analytics that scales and runs on technologies like Hadoop.“

Synthesys has solved three key impediments to the growth of the Big Data Analytics market:

• Eliminating the need for a data model to aid understanding of text
• Handling diverse data at scale without compromising the depth of understanding
• Inventing a way to automatically understand the meaning of words in context

Digital Reasoning has successfully deployed Synthesys as both enterprise software and cloud-based web service. With success on a number of large systems in the Government market, Digital Reasoning will be expanding Synthesys into enterprise commercial markets.

About Digital Reasoning

Digital Reasoning provides Automated Understanding for Big Data. Automated Understanding analyzes unstructured and structured big data to reveal the hidden and potentially valuable relationships between people, place and time. More than a dozen government agencies use Digital Reasoning’s flagship product, Synthesys, to uncover security threats and accelerate the time to actionable intelligence. The company is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, with an office in Arlington, Virginia. For more information, please visit www.digitalreasoning.com.

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Digital Reasoning™ and Synthesys® are trademarks of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

Arlington, VA and Nashville, TN – August 24, 2011 – Digital Reasoning™, the leader in unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ric Upton as Senior Vice President of Strategic Development. In this new role Dr. Upton will focus on the continued growth and development of Digital Reasoning’s presence in the Federal market.

“We are thrilled to add a person of Ric’s distinction to our team.” said Tim Estes, Chief Executive Officer, at Digital Reasoning. “As we continue to reshape the way customers automate the understanding of unstructured data, Ric’s extensive experience building world class organizations will be a tremendous asset.”

Dr. Upton brings over 25 years industry experience to Digital Reasoning. Most recently he has been an Executive-in-Residence working with General Catalyst Partners LLC. Prior to joining General Catalyst, Dr. Upton was an Executive Vice President for healthcare informatics and intelligence with BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon in 2009). He was also a Senior Vice-President for business development and intelligence with ALPHATECH, Inc. Prior to ALPHATECH, Dr. Upton held senior executive positions in both commercial and government-oriented firms, including Chief Technology Officer and Vice-President, Operations for SignCast, Inc. and Vice-President, Strategic Development, at PictureTel Corporation. Dr. Upton also held positions of increasing responsibility at TASC, including Vice-President, Strategic Development, Vice-President and Technical Director/CTO. He began his career with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Dr. Upton holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, and an M.S.E and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the Board of Advisors for the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, is a member of the Steering Group for the Security Innovation Network (SINET), and is an Advisor to several firms focusing on security, privacy, and digital forensics.

“Digital Reasoning uniquely enables government agencies to turn the accelerating increase in raw data they are collecting and analyzing into actionable intelligence, uncovering security threats on a global scale,” said Upton. “I’m excited to join this innovative company and leadership team as we continue to help the federal government understand what hidden relationships lay in their data and provide them with a new level of insight heretofore unattainable.”

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.

In the report, Nick Patience Research Director, Information Management at The 451 Group states, “Digital Reasoning’s patented text analysis technology, deep level of experience and apparent success in the proving grounds of US government intelligence show that Digital Reasoning has a product to be reckoned with.”

“We are pleased to be recognized for our expertise in big data analytics,” said Tim Estes, CEO at Digital Reasoning. “Our proven and patented software Synthesys, uncovers actionable intelligence from web content, email, social media, reports, and other unstructured data.”

Digital Reasoning recently announced Chinese language support for big data analytics in its flagship product Synthesys®. Synthesys is an entity oriented cloud-scale analytic solution that enables enterprises and government agencies to automatically make sense of complex data. Built to address the most complicated data analytics challenges, Synthesys excels at extracting, resolving and linking entities and concepts to provide context to the newly discovered information.

Arlington, VA and Nashville, TN – June 28, 2011 –Digital Reasoning^™, the leader in   unstructured data analytics at scale, today announced its new Select Partner Program for technology partners. The program has been created to support the growing ecosystem of leading technology vendors building the next generation of analytic solutions for Big Data.

“We strongly believe that working with best-in-class partners is the ideal way to help customers solve their Big Data analytic challenges,” said Tim Estes, CEO of Digital Reasoning. “We are excited about our first partners and look forward to announcing many more in the coming months.”

Initial members of the Select Partner Program include Cloudera, DataStax, and Fetch Technologies. Additional partners will continue to fill important, complementary roles in an emerging ecosystem that allows customers to collect, process, store and visualize large amounts of data.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Digital Reasoning,” said Robert Landes, CEO of Fetch Technologies. “I feel strongly that combining Fetch’s strength in scalable web data collection with Synthesys will deliver compelling insight and solutions for web content and social media understanding.”

For more information on Digital Reasoning’s Select Partner Program please visit  www.digitalreasoning.com/partners

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.

While English is still the most widely used language on the web, a recent report from The Next Web suggests that “[i]t could be less than five years before Chinese becomes the dominant language on the Internet.”

“This is a significant milestone for our company”, said Rob Metcalf, President and COO of Digital Reasoning,” said Rob Metcalf, President and COO of Digital Reasoning, “Whether for the public sector, financial services, health care or other enterprise applications, the next generation of Big Data solutions for unstructured data will need to natively support the world’s most widely spoken languages.”

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.).

“The Federal Advisory Board will work closely with our senior management team to establish new partnerships and accelerate our work with the federal market,” said Tim Estes, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Reasoning. “With the federal government’s increased focus on cloud computing, our flagship product Synthesys® provides a unique Entity Oriented Analytics solution that enables government agencies to tap into the power of big data.”
The Advisory Board represents a team with unique insight into the requirements of Big Data, text analytics and intelligence solutions for government agencies.

“I’m happy, proud and humbled to continue to work with Digital Reasoning and the members of the Advisory Board,” said Mike Miller, Chairman of the newly created Board. “The accomplishments of my fellow members on behalf of our Country, its warfighters and citizens have been exemplary. We are grateful for their willingness to work with Digital Reasoning and help solve some of the country’s most complex data challenges.”

Background on Board Members

General William T. Hobbins retired as Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, NATO Allied Air Component Command, Ramstein; and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. He has commanded a MAJCOM, a NATO Component, a numbered air force, two tactical fighter wings and a composite air group. He has served as the Director of Plans and Operations for U.S. Forces Japan, Director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Atlantic Command, the Director of Operations for U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and the Deputy Chief of Staff Warfighting Integration and Air Force CIO. In addition, Gen Hobbins was the Lead developer for the first C4ISR flight plan in 2005, and subsequently for the NATO Unmanned Aerial Systems Roadmap in 2007.

Bob Flores is the Founder and President of Applicology Incorporated, an independent consulting firm specializing in informatics and cyber security issues. Prior to starting Applicology, Flores spent 31 years in the U.S. Intelligence Community where he held several positions, including Chief Technology Officer. He was also on several government-wide information sharing committees and councils. In addition to his senior level leadership and management positions, his career included assignments in applications programming, training and education, contract and project management, and both line and staff management roles at various levels of the Agency.

Dr. Anita K. Jones is a distinguished leader in computer science, widely recognized for her scholarship in the field and her prior service to the U.S. Government in managing the U.S. Department of Defense’s science and technology program and overseeing its numerous research activities. Dr. Jones is currently a University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. She served as the Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense in 1993-1998, and later as vice-chair of the National Science Board. She is a senior fellow of the Defense Science Board and a member of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Corporation and the MIT Corporation. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Engineering. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

CAPT Nick Buck completed a 26 year Navy career with over 15 years in National Security Space, including 10 years in the National Reconnaissance Office. A Naval Aviator and Test Pilot with over 2500 flight hours, Nick has served as both a supplier and a customer of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Information Technology systems. Nick managed multiple major defense acquisition programs and is a recognized expert in implementing Information Technology consolidation and Cloud Computing programs. A Harvard Senior Executive Fellow, Nick currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Buck Consulting Group, LLC.

Mike Miller has over twenty years of primarily Government sales experience, currently serving as president of M4 Associates. Previously, Miller was the VP of Juniper Networks’ Public Sector Division where he was responsible for all business with Juniper’s Public Sector customers in the U.S. including federal agencies, state and local governments and education. Before that Miller ran worldwide sales for Appian, a leader in the BPM market, where he helped secure strategic wins within the DoD and DHS while substantially increasing its commercial clients and partners. Before joining Appian, Miller held executive positions at Managed Objects, and Computer Associates (CA).

About Digital Reasoning
Digital Reasoning (www.digitalreasoning.com) solves the problem of information overload by providing the tools people need to understand relationships between entities in vast amounts of unstructured and structured data.

Digital Reasoning builds data analytic solutions based on a distinctive mathematical approach to understanding human language. The value of Digital Reasoning is not only the ability to leverage an organization’s existing knowledge base, but also to reveal critical hidden information and relationships that may not have been apparent during manual or other automated analytic efforts. Synthesys is a registered trademark of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

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.

von Eckartsberg brings over 10 years service with the U.S. Government and over 15 years experience managing sales and operations for a number of high technology and consulting companies.  His U.S. Government service in a number of national security related roles included over four years overseas service with the U.S. Embassy in Japan.  von Eckartsberg joins Digital Reasoning from Perceptive Pixel where he was responsible for growing the company’s presence in U.S. and global government markets.  Prior to this, he was responsible for sales into the National Security community for enterprise search vendor Endeca Technologies, and for structured data analytics provider Visual Sciences.   Previously, von Eckartsberg managed teams working on national security information management projects for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

As Vice President of Marketing, Danielson will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s marketing strategy and public relations.  Danielson has enjoyed a long career as a technical marketer, strategist and executive with a number of technology companies.  Most recently he served as the Vice President of Strategy and Managing Director for LexisNexis.  Prior to that, he held the positions of Chief Executive Officer and Vice President Marketing for a number of early-stage technology companies.

“Digital Reasoning is pleased to open its latest office in Washington, DC area. The strategic location of the office, as well as the addition of two key personnel allows us to better serve our growing government client base,” said Tim Estes, Digital Reasoning’s Chief Executive Officer. “Eric and Dave bring significant strengths to Digital Reasoning.  Eric’s extensive government expertise will be vital as we accelerate our work in the U.S. intelligence community and beyond.  Dave’s diverse and agile technology, product, and marketing experience will be instrumental as we increase market awareness of our flagship product Synthesys and enable government agencies to tap into the power of Big Data.”

About Digital Reasoning

Digital Reasoning (www.digitalreasoning.com) solves the problem of information overload by providing the tools people need to understand relationships between entities in vast amounts of unstructured and structured data.

Digital Reasoning builds data analytic solutions based on a distinctive mathematical approach to understanding human language. The value of Digital Reasoning is not only the ability to leverage an organization’s existing knowledge base, but also to reveal critical hidden information and relationships that may not have been apparent during manual or other automated analytic efforts. Synthesys is a registered trademark of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

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.

The pioneering invention entails intelligent software agents that extract meaning from text as humans do – by analyzing concepts and entities in context. The software learns as it runs, continually comparing new text to existing knowledge.  Associated entities and synonym relationships are automatically discovered and relevant documents are identified from across extremely large corpora.

The patent specifically covers the mechanism of measurement and the applications of algorithms to develop machine-understandable structures from patterns of symbol usage. In addition, it covers the semantic alignment of those learned structures from unstructured data with pre-existing structured data – a necessary step in creating enterprise-class entity-oriented systems. The technology as implemented in Synthesys^® provides a unique and now protected means of bringing automated understanding to end users in the enterprise and beyond.

“Digital Reasoning has been awarded two significant patents that form the basis of our flagship product Synthesys,” said Tim Estes, CEO and founder of Digital Reasoning.  “Our patents and recent strategic agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT) will help us to accelerate our vision of helping decision makers discover, visualize and act on important information that may not be readily apparent or is buried in different and disparate data sources.”

The Company recently announced a strategic investment, licensing, and development agreement from 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.

Patent #7,882,055 along with Patent #7,249,117, which was awarded in 2007, are the foundation for the company’s flagship product, Synthesys, an entity oriented cloud-scale analytic solution that enables enterprises and government agencies to automatically make sense of complex data. Built to address the most complicated data analytics challenges Synthesys excels at extracting, resolving and linking entities and concepts from unstructured and structured data.  By uncovering hidden connections, the system empowers analysts to make smart decisions faster.

About Digital Reasoning

Digital Reasoning (www.digitalreasoning.com) solves the problem of information overload by providing the tools people need to understand relationships between entities in vast amounts of unstructured and structured data.

Digital Reasoning builds data analytic solutions based on a distinctive mathematical approach to understanding natural language. The value of Digital Reasoning is not only the ability to leverage an organization’s existing knowledge base, but also to reveal critical hidden information and relationships that may not have been apparent during manual or other automated analytic efforts. Synthesys is a registered trademark of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

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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 analytics software is based on a distinctive, patented mathematical approach to understanding natural language and leverages bleeding edge cloud technologies to make these analytics work effectively on vast amounts of data. Digital Reasoning was founded on the vision that software should read and understand language as humans do – by analyzing concepts and entities in context across multiple information sources. Since its founding in 2000, Digital Reasoning has pioneered the field of Entity Oriented Analytics, going beyond the relevant document paradigm and focusing on the actors of interest—people, places, organizations—and their connections.

With its flagship product Synthesys^®, Digital Reasoning empowers analysts to review facts and associations at a glance—across millions of documents. Operating without a rigid taxonomy or ontology, Synthesys allows the discovery of non-obvious connections hidden in the data, such as alternate meanings of words or “coded” or “disguised” messages.

“With the explosive growth of data over the last decade, there is a need for a new generation of solutions that provide timely, actionable intelligence at massive scale,” said T.J. Rylander, Partner on IQT’s Investments team. “The technology being developed by Digital Reasoning offers great promise to address this challenge and meet the unique needs of our customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community.”

“We are delighted to have IQT as a strategic investor and partner,” said Tim Estes, CEO and founder of Digital Reasoning. “This announcement represents confidence by IQT in the potential of our solutions to solve some of the most significant big data analytics challenges.”

“Comprehensively understanding human language—at scale—is one of the most complex and rewarding problems we are addressing today,” added Rob Metcalf, President and COO of Digital Reasoning. “And the ability to partner with IQT presents a tremendous opportunity to leverage Digital Reasoning’s capabilities in some of the most important analytic missions in the world.”

Synthesys v3.0 is available now. More detailed information can be obtained from Digital Reasoning Systems’ website or by contacting the company directly.

About Digital Reasoning^™

Digital Reasoning Systems (www.digitalreasoning.com) solves the problem of information overload by providing the tools people need to understand relationships between entities in vast amounts of unstructured and structured data.

Digital Reasoning builds data analytic solutions based on a distinctive mathematical approach to understanding natural language. The value of Digital Reasoning is not only the ability to leverage an organization’s existing knowledge base, but also to reveal critical hidden information and relationships that may not have been apparent during manual or other automated analytic efforts. Synthesys^® is a registered trademark of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

About IQT

In-Q-Tel is the strategic, not-for-profit investment firm that works to identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Launched in 1999 as a private, independent organization, IQT’s mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community’s critical technology needs, IQT engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and investors to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA and broader U.S. Intelligence Community. To learn more about IQT, visit www.iqt.org.

Contacts

Digital Reasoning Systems
Dave Danielson, 603-429-8866
dave.danielson@digitalreasoning.com