More on Potential Social Software Winners in our New Economic World

October 22, 2008, Portals and KM Blog by Bill Ives

This a follow up to my post, Will We See Major Price Reductions for Enterprise 2.0 Applications? A few months ago, I wrote about Attivio on the AppGap. It offers the Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) for Unified Information Access, bringing together business intelligence and enterprise search capabilities. (see Attivio Tightly Integrates Structured Data and Unstructured Content for a New Approach to Information Access). Recently, I had an interesting conversation with Attivio CEO Ali Riaz about the potential impact of the current economic crisis on technology adoption. He noted that some of the large enterprise application providers are seeing decreasing sales. For example, SAP, has recently issued earnings warnings (via Jevon MacDonald). At the same time, Ali said they are finding an increasing demand at Attivio for their BI-search combination as companies want to better understand what is happening within their enterprise and customer base. 
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