XSB, Inc. is a privately held Product Content and Data Management (PCDM) technology company founded in 1998. The evolution of our core technology has been driven primarily by the need to extract meaning from the rich but unstructured data environment on the World Wide Web and legacy data systems. Data that is unstructured, inconsistent and incomplete is of little value in supporting decision making. Unfortunately, only about 20% of business content is in a structured and useable format. Gleaning consistent, complete, actionable data from jargon-rich technical information is often a difficult, costly and labor intensive process.
XSB, Inc. develops and commercializes software solutions that make it easier for users to access, manage, and extract meaning from unstructured information. Our intelligent applications utilize a unique combination of ontology-based technologies for semantic reasoning, automated software agents, as well as statistical and rule-based algorithms. This enables our solutions to autonomously transform unstructured data into information that is rich, structured, precise and timely; we call this Coherent Data.
Coherent Data is the backbone of decision making; it is highly structured, readily queriable, and integrated across the entire enterprise. Analysts estimate that a company with 1000 workers can save $6 million per year simply through improved management of unstructured content. XSB's content management solutions enable business users to resolve data inconsistencies in unstructured information buried in their enterprise resource planning and purchasing systems. Additionally, information harvested from the World Wide Web can be used to enrich and correct legacy content. In total, XSB solutions empower the enterprise by transforming content to reduce costs, increase operational efficiency, and drive continuous business process improvements.
XSB, Inc. is a recognized leader in the field of data mining, classification, standardization and enrichment. Our solutions automate business processes such as Information Retrieval, Spend Analytics, Data Classification and Integration, Master Data Management, Supply Chain Optimization and e-Procurement. XSB, Inc. has been extremely successful in bringing research technology to market through the sale of software licenses and service sales to Fortune 500 companies, and government entities.
Our best-of-breed technology is based on proprietary extensions to the open source XSB Logic Programming System developed under the direction of XSB, Inc. VP of Sciences, Dr. David S. Warren Ph.D. The XSB system is the result of more than 25 years of research and development made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Defense.
Although our core competency remains grounded in data acquisition, transformation, and management, we are dedicated to identifying and developing new technologies that will transform the way people access and use data. Current R&D efforts include development of:
- Assistive Browser technologies for the visually impaired
- Focused Crawler technology that will set new standards in automated information retrieval
- Deductive Spreadsheet technologies that will enable users to program intelligent applications using the spreadsheet metaphor without requiring that they have programming knowledge
XSB, Inc. has two patents pending for our data management solutions.