Collective Intellect, Inc., (CI) an innovative provider of solutions enabling executives to obtain
highly-relevant and critical pieces of information from unstructured online data sources, announced today the availability of the next generation of its Media Intelligence service, a
comprehensive, real-time media research solution targeted to institutional investors, hedge fund traders and the broader financial community.
We have added many important features to our solution, based on feedback from traders and analysts who are eager to refine their research strategies by receiving more targeted and
relevant information quickly, said Don Springer, chief executive officer of Collective Intellect. Collective Intellect'ss ability to take unstructured data, filter it and deliver only the
most relevant information makes it a 'smust have's research tool to complement other services used by the investment community, such as Bloomberg.
CI's filtering approach includes three phases. First, CI creates TopicNets for all content areas that are of interest to institutional investors. A TopicNet is a collection of content
sources which are related to a single topic. With its TopicNet algorithm, CI can identify and rank the most credible sources of information, which is a critical part of CI's
differentiation from other tools that attempt to filter unstructured data.Second, CI's technology eliminates irrelevant, duplicate, or splog-sourced information. Finally, each individual
posting is ranked for relevancy using an adaptive, multi-factor algorithm which incorporates feedback from end-users through a content voting system. This approach ensures that individual
users receive content that is most relevant for their own investment research requirements.
Principal features of Collective Intellect'ss new solution include:
Real-time feeds of blogs, message boards and other types of unstructured data, combined with traditional news media
Simple, easy-to-read user interface that gives traders an immediate view into what'ss happening now with the stocks, sectors and industries they track
Minute-by-minute refreshes of content
Intuitive methods for refining searches about tickers and themes
Hosted desktop and email delivery
About Collective Intellect
Collective Intellect, Inc. specializes in comprehensively tracking, filtering and ranking media content for among the largest Wall Street trading firms and the Fortune 500. The company'ss
management team has worked in business intelligence for years, creating tools to solve the challenge of filtering unstructured information.The company'ss breakthrough technology helps
analysts and portfolio managers in financial services, and a wide range of executives within enterprises uncover valuable, relevant nuggets of information that reside in the vast amount
of unstructured data available today, including blogs, message boards and chat rooms as well as traditional media.
Customers include some of the largest trading desks on Wall Street, Fortune 100 consumer goods manufacturers and Fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies. Collective Intellect is
headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, and is funded by Appian Ventures and other investors.