Parity Computing, with software that helps customers (including several scholarly publishers) mine and organize unstructured data, has launched a new version of its software for creating organizational and professional profiles.
This is more evidence of how one application can be “verticalized.” Eliyon has been the leader in creating personal profiles out of open Web content for recruiting, sales, competitive intelligence, and other applications. Along comes a new player with domain expertise in scholarly data and creates a similar application in the scholarly field. It’s an area ripe for this kind of application, where people are closely tied to various kinds of documents and entities, including articles, patents, books, universities, research organizations, etc.