Inxight
# Inxight

Inxight Software, Inc. was a software company specializing in visualization, information retrieval and natural language processing. It was bought by Business Objects in 2007; Business Objects was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2008. Founded in 1997, Inxight was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was originally spun out of Xerox PARC.

## Products

Inxight offered text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries:

* LinguistX for the identification of stems, parts of speech, and noun phrases.
* Summarizer for the identification of key phrases and key sentences.
* ThingFinder for the identification of entities and grammatical patterns, such as "facts", events, relations, and sentiment. This was built on a proprietary pattern-matching language.
* Categorizer for matching a document to nodes in a taxonomy hierarchy.

And also visualization products:

* StarTree, a hierarchical and graph visualization/navigation tool.
* TableLens, a trend visualization tool for large data sets.
* TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool.

This functionality is now available via SAP Hybris YaaS Market and is embedded in various SAP platforms (such as SAP HANA and SAP Data Services).

