Bloor Group Names Attivio to “10 IT Companies to Watch in 2011” List

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - Company Release

Attivio, Inc. announced that it has been recognized by the Bloor Group as one of its "10 IT Companies to Watch in 2011". The company's Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) was selected for its unified ability to access data via a single software product. The annual list, authored by co-founders Eric Kavanagh and Robin Bloor, is based on companies the firm has identified as offering impressive technologies.

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is critical to the success of any enterprise. But the insight needed is often tucked away in separate silos - text files, email, databases, PDFs, SharePoint and more - causing critical knowledge to be delayed, poorly connected, hard to explore or missed all together. By unifying and automating delivery of essential information, decision-makers can better identify new opportunities, issues and risks, reduce operational costs, improve customer satisfaction and retention and move faster than the competition.

Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine brings powerful information capabilities to critical business solutions with a new approach to unifying, integrating and analyzing information for new levels of depth, insight and agility. With information-driven workflow, automatic updates and alerts in real-time, AIE affects business processes when it matters - at the convergence of business decisions and actions. Attivio's AIE was highlighted by the Bloor Group for its ability to retrieve and analyze all types of content and data, with search-style queries.

According to the analyst group, "Attivio caught our eye because it has an elegant and intelligent capability in the area of unified information access. For many companies, important data lives in a variety of data stores: databases, text databases, content management systems and document management systems, as well as files scattered everywhere. A unified ability to access all that data via a single software product is clearly attractive and that's what Attivio seeks to provide with its Active Intelligence Engine. There are very few other products that provide this kind of capability."

"Time and again, well respected organizations such as the Bloor Group are recognizing the importance and value of unified information access as well as our leadership in this space," said Ali Riaz, CEO of Attivio. "The Active Intelligence Engine is the only platform available today that offers the perfect mix of enterprise search, business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics in a single, easy to view interface. We are thrilled with Bloor Group's inclusion of AIE in its listing."