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Background
SAP’s text analysis technology
1997
Inxight spun off
from PARC, a
Xerox company
Finite-state technology
for modeling natural
language
2007
Inxight acquired
by Business
Objects
Integration of text
analysis technology
into BI applications
2008
Business Objects
acquired by SAP
Text analysis technology
continues to focus on BI
applications
2012
First integration
into SAP HANA
Foundation for full-text
search, BI, and sentiment
analysis applications
Today
Text analysis in
SAP HANA
Foundation for virtually
any type of unstructured
textual data processing
on the platform