Metatomix Inc., Dedham, Mass., a provider of semantic solutions to justice and public safety, financial services, manufacturing and life sciences organizations, today announced the introduction of a new a suite of tools designed to analyze and map information found in unstructured textual formats, and integrate that information with structured and semi-structured data using Metatomix's Semantic Middleware Platform. The product, called "Discovery," will provide public sector and commercial customers with the ability to incorporate more diverse data sets for the purpose of a richer 360 degree view of a topic or entity.

Discovery will offer an immediate benefit to Metatomix's customers in a variety of markets. Within the justice and public safety sector, the varied content of incident reports, criminal history logs, text descriptions and narratives can be accurately integrated into queries run by state and local officials. Incident reports, used by law enforcement departments across the country to detail officers' daily activities, commonly use free text entry and comments fields to store important information. Previously, only certain elements of these report narratives could be analyzed, often excluding the information contained within the unstructured text.

Source: Metatomix Inc.