Business Objects went and did it again with the acquisition of FUZZY! Informatik. Yet another data quality acquisition for the French based software company, in 2006 Business Objects acquired First Logic, a data cleansing, data quality software company with a history routed in helping organization cleanse their mail data to avoid duplicates and data falsities. This is another technology addition to their EIM (Enterprise Information Management) product portfolio and although this could be seen as more technology overlap, it’s continues to put the French based software company in an interesting position vs the big players.
Here’s some background. Fuzzy Informatik; established in 1994, with 50 employees, revenue is between $5M and $10M Euro with 350 customers. They have solutions for data analysis and “fuzzy searches.” Details on their products can be found here. They focus mainly on CRM implementations (name address profiling and correction). They have partnerships with universities in Germany and the US, and are part of the board of the German Data Quality Association. Here’s the press
Here’s some background. Fuzzy Informatik; established in 1994, with 50 employees, revenue is between $5M and $10M Euro with 350 customers. They have solutions for data analysis and “fuzzy searches.” Details on their products can be found here. They focus mainly on CRM implementations (name address profiling and correction). They have partnerships with universities in Germany and the US, and are part of the board of the German Data Quality Association. Here’s the press
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