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Former US Air Force Chief Information Officer Joins Digital Reasoning as Special Advisor
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FRANKLIN, Tennessee – Feb. 4, 2010 – Digital Reasoning® Systems Inc., the intelligence-software innovator, today announced that Gen. William “Tom” Hobbins has joined the company as a special advisor. Hobbins retired from the United States Air Force as Commander, US Air Forces in Europe. He previously served, among many other notable positions, as Deputy Chief of Staff for War Fighting Integration and as the US Air Force’s Chief Information Officer. As the Chief Information Officer, Gen. Hobbins developed and implemented the Air Force’s roadmap for networks enabling predictive battle-space awareness and targeting.
“As the former Chief Information Officer for the United States Air Force, one of my great passions became knowledge management. The future lies in tying disparate databases into fuzed, consumable and structured information that yields decision superiority. Given that we have created digital landfills, with all the data we indiscriminately placed in storage, it must be transformed and made discoverable in actionable terms for decision makers. Digital Reasoning goes beyond knowledge management into knowledge discovery – being able to extrapolate meaning from unstructured data”, said Hobbins.
In his role with Digital Reasoning, Hobbins will advise on applications for Digital Reasoning’s technology in the defense and intelligence community. When asked…
Digital Reasoning Names Metcalf as New President and Chief Operating Officer
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Jan. 26, 2010 – Digital Reasoning® Systems Inc., the intelligence-software innovator, recently announced that Robert “Rob” Metcalf has joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Metcalf will be responsible for the company’s business and sales strategy.
Prior to joining Digital Reasoning, Metcalf helped build software and information services businesses for LexisNexis in Mexico City, Toronto and Raleigh. As Vice President, Metcalf oversaw numerous acquisitions and key investments at the forefront of the company’s solution strategy. Prior to LexisNexis, Metcalf worked in Boston and San Francisco with The Parthenon Group, a strategy consultancy. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his AB, Summa Cum Laude, from Princeton University.
When asked why he joined the Digital Reasoning team, Metcalf said, “I firmly believe in Digital Reasoning’s mission to build intuitive tools to help understand the world’s data. With nearly a decade of experience combating one of the intelligence community’s toughest problems—culling actionable data in real time from millions of documents—Digital Reasoning is poised to take a leadership role in the next wave of search, discovery and understanding. Against the backdrop of the acute problem of information overload, I am excited to join a world-class team and deliver Digital…
Digital Reasoning’s Products and Services Now Available on GSA Schedule
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc., the intelligence-software innovator, today announced that its complete product line and services are now available on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Schedule number GS-35F-4153D.
This schedule will allow any federal agency to easily procure any of those products or services, and will accelerate deployments in the government sector.
According to the GSA website the GSA Schedules “offer customers direct delivery of millions of state-of-the-art, high-quality commercial supplies and services at volume discount pricing. The Schedules & Other Supplies & Services page lists commercial supplies and services available under GSA Schedules and other GSA contracts. All customers, even those in remote locations, can order the latest technology and quality supplies and services, conveniently, and at most favored customer prices. GSA Schedules also offer the potential benefits of shorter lead-times, lower administrative costs, and reduced inventories.”
“With our addition to the GSA Schedule, we are looking forward to responding to the strong demand for solutions to information overload and analytics. Digital Reasoning technology is uniquely positioned to support rapid knowledge discovery from overwhelming amounts of unstructured data in Defense, Intelligence, and Oversight agencies”, said Tim Estes, CEO of Digital Reasoning Systems.
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Digital Reasoning Systems Announces VAR Agreement with Intelligent Decisions
Leading technology solutions provider to supply Digital Reasoning’s Groundbreaking solutions for Unstructured Data to federal and commercial clients
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.,the intelligence-software innovator, today announced that Intelligent Decisions is now a Value-Added Reseller for Digital Reasoning’s full line of products and services.
For over 20 years, Intelligent Decisions has provided some of the most sophisticated and innovative solutions for state and local government, commercial organizations and almost every government agency, including the Intelligence Community and even the White House.
“In the last few years, Intelligence and Security initiatives have done a great job of collecting data, but they are now faced with having too much information. We see Digital Reasoning as a leading tool for understanding unstructured data automatically. This cutting edge technology can optimize several levels of analysis, allowing analysts to concentrate on the bigger pictureâ€, said Roy Stephan, Director of IT Architecture and Engineering with Intelligent Decisions, Inc.
“Digital Reasoning is proud to be selected by Intelligent Decisions as their first partner in the area of unstructured data analytics. They’ve been at the forefront of bringing several novel commercial technologies and we believe we will join those leaders as our technology is adopted broadly in the Federal Space through…
After Eight Years the Market Catches Up to Digital Reasoning
In a recent article for CNET News, Stephanie Olsen explained that investment in web technology initially dealt with commercializing the Web, helping companies like Amazon.com and eBay get on their way. The second wave of investment has been about helping people socialize and connect through sites like Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. The third, she writes “will be about making sense of all the data people create around the Web, and then searching for patterns in the data to improve the delivery of personalized content, search results, or advertising.”
To make sense of the data, Olsen proposes, will require “building an intelligent system that understands the relationships between Web sites and how people use them–with the use of algorithms that understand keywords, context, and natural language on a massive scale. VCs (Venture Capitalists), for example, are looking to so-called semantic technology to significantly boost the amount of searches that result in an advertising “click.” Right now, an estimated 30 percent to 40 percent of Web searches do not return advertising revenue. But if a search engine understood the context of a person’s Web search more often, those numbers would improve, they say.”
“Simply put, the problem is information overload – there is so…
