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Seth Grimes is the author of a variety of reports, white papers, and articles, the latter for publications including TechWeb's InformationWeek, and before that, Intelligent Enterprise magazine. The following are report and articles he has written --

Published reports

• Text/Content Analytics 2011: User Perspectives on Solutions and Providers, sponsored, September, 2011.
• Social Media and the Enterprise Business Intelligence/Analytics Connection, BeyeNETWORK Custom Research Report, December, 2010.
• Text Analytics 2009: User Perspectives on Solutions and Providers, sponsored by Attensity, Clarabridge, GATE, IxReveal, Nstein, SAP & Temis, 2009.
• Seeing Connections: Visualization Makes Sense of Data, published by InformationWeek Analytics, sponsored by Tableau, 2009.
• Voice of the Customer: Text Analytics for the Responsive Enterprise, sponsored by Business Objects, IBM & SPSS, 2008.

White papers

• An Ecosystem Approach to Integrated Analytics, sponsored by Teradata, release pending.
• From Text To Business Insight: All About Enterprise Text Analytics, sponsored by SAP, June, 2011.
• 12 Things the Semantics Web Should Know about Content Analytics, sponsored by Open Text, June, 2011.
• Sybase IQ Text Technologies: Technical Overview White Paper, January, 2011.
• Text Analytics in the BI Ecosystem, sponsored by Sybase, 2010.
• Frequently Asked Questions about In-Database Analytics, sponsored by Teradata, 2010.
• Nimble Intelligence: Enterprise BI Mashup Best Practices, sponsored by JackBe, 2010.
• Space-Time Research technical note (TN) series, Self-Service Business Intelligence
  • TN03: Gov 2.0 for Providers of Official Statistics .
  • TN02: Making Sense of Gov2.0.
  • TN01: Government Business Intelligence.
• Sybase IQ Analytics Server Competitive Assessment, sponsored by Sybase, 2009.
• Unified Information Access: Gain Active Intelligence from Content and Data, sponsored by Attivio, 2009.
• Delivering Real-Time BI with Complex Event Processing, sponsored by Coral8, 2009.
• Text Technologies in the Mainstream, sponsored by Text Analytics Summit 2008.
• What's Next for Text, sponsored by Text Analytics Summit 2007.
• European Text Analytics, sponsored by European Text Analytics Summit 2007.
• MySQL: Ready For Primetime Business Intelligence, published by Pentaho.
• Finding Value in Text Analytics, sponsored by Text Analytics Summit 2006.
• The Developing Text Mining Market, sponsored by Text Analytics Summit 2005.

Feature articles

• From Social Data to Business Insight, DataSift blog, October 19, 2012
• It Goes Without Saying: From Sentiment to Intent, Social Media Explorer, October 18, 2012
• Metavana Mix: Social Complexity, SparkScore Simplicity, Social Media Explorer, July 20, 2012
• LinkedIn, Please Take on Group Spammers, Social Media Today, July 20, 2012
• Never Trust Sentiment Accuracy Claims, Social Media Explorer, July 17, 2012
• DeepMR: Market Research Mines Social Sentiment, GreenBook blog, May 1, 2012
• From Mentions to Meaning: An Analytics Journey, CustomerThink, April 29, 2012
• Social Media Sentiment: Competing on Accuracy, Social Media Explorer, April 19, 2012
• Scouting the Next Frontiers for 'Unstructured' Data, AllAnalytics, April 8, 2012
• Sentiment Tool Scans Twitter To Set Super Bowl Odds, InformationWeek, January 26, 2012
• IKS Means Semantic Intelligence for Content Management, But Will it Survive?, CMSwire, June 29, 2011
• Interview Responses: Text Analytics and Sentiment Analysis, BeyeNETWORK, June 7, 2011
• Analytics in Action: Clicks and Content, sponsored article published by Open Text, May, 2011
• Text-Analytics Demand Approaches $1 Billion, InformationWeek, May 11, 2011
• Text Analytics Adoption Grows by Leaps and Bounds, BeyeNETWORK, May 9, 2011
• What I Look For In A Social Analysis Tool, InformationWeek, March 16, 2011
• Inside Job: In-database analytics improves business performance, efficiency and more., Teradata magazine, Q1, 2011
• Seven Breakthrough Sentiment Analysis Scenarios, InformationWeek, February 17, 2011
• 5 Paths To The New Data Integration, InformationWeek, January 11, 2011
• Semantics Here and Now, Bulldog Marketing Watchdog Journal, December 2010
• Five Ways To Fool A Twitter Sentiment Tool, InformationWeek, December 16, 2010
• Leading, Lagging And Lame BI And Data Warehousing Transformations, InformationWeek, November 16, 2010
• Content Management Finds Meaning, EContent, October 12, 2010.
• This is Content Intelligence, According to 4 Experts, CMSWire, October 7, 2010.
• Content strategy by the numbers, via semantics, FierceContentManagement, October 5, 2010.
• Expert Analysis: Expert Analysis: A Case for Socialization of Data, Intelligent Enterprise, July 26, 2010.
• Expert Analysis: Is Sentiment Analysis an 80% Solution?, Intelligent Enterprise, March 29, 2010.
• Text Analytics Opportunities and Challenges for 2010, Business Intelligence Network, February 8, 2010.
• Breakthrough Analysis: Two + Nine Types of Semantic Search, InformationWeek, January 21, 2010.
• For Text Data Quality, Focus on Sources, Business Intelligence Network, December 9, 2009.
• Full Circle Sentiment Analysis, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2009 Q4.
• Text Data Quality, Business Intelligence Network, November 17, 2009.
• Half a Loaf Information Systems (on semantic-annotation accuracy), Business Intelligence Network, July 27, 2009.
• Themes and Trends for the Coming Year, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2009 Q3.
• Market Outlook for Text Analytics, Business Intelligence Network, April 23, 2009.
• What Manipulates Your Customers?, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2009 Q1.
• Perspectives on Text Analytics in 2009, Business Intelligence Network, February 24, 2009.
• For Serious Business Training, Nothing Beats Computer Games, Intelligent Enterprise, February 23, 2009.
• Open Source Text Analytics, Business Intelligence Network, January 27, 2009.
• In-Database Analytics: A Passing Lane for Complex Analysis, Intelligent Enterprise, December 15, 2008
• Understanding Customer Satisfaction, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2008 Q4.
• Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, Information Week, November 17, 2008
• BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future, Intelligent Enterprise, November 2, 2008
• Unstructured Data and the 80 Percent Rule, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2008 Q3.
• Infobright Boosts Open Source Data Warehousing, Intelligent Enterprise, September 15, 2008.
• Text Analytics Basics, Part 2, Business Intelligence Network, August 26, 2008.
• Text Analytics Basics, Part 1, Business Intelligence Network, July 29, 2008.
• Targeting the Enterprise, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2008 Q2.
• Text Analytics Accuracy: Requirements and Reality, Business Intelligence Network, May 13, 2008.
• What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research, Intelligent Enterprise, May 5, 2008.
• Understanding Legal Information and E-Discovery, Business Intelligence Network, March 18, 2008.
• Text Analytics as a Service Paves the Way for Wide Adoption, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2008 Q1.
• Q&A: IBM's Aaron Brown on Text Analytics for Legal Compliance, Intelligent Enterprise, March 3, 2008.
• Sentiment Analysis: A Focus on Applications, Business Intelligence Network, February 19, 2008.
• Sentiment Analysis: Opportunities and Challenges, Business Intelligence Network, January 22, 2008.
• Financial Sector Text Analytics, Clarabridge Bridgepoints, 2007 Q4.
• Voice of the Customer Text Analytics for True 360-Degree Customer and Market Views, Business Intelligence Network, December 4, 2007.
• A Brief History of Text Analytics, Business Intelligence Network, October 30, 2007.
• Consumer and Enterprise Search: Not an Exact Match, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, June 1, 2004.
• Shared Risk, Shared Rewards: homeland security and IT innovation, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, September 1, 2003.
• Business Intelligence Roundtable, with Henry Morris (IDC), Nigel Pendse (the OLAP Report), and Philip Russom, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, September 17, 2002.
• Making Sense of the Census, Census 2000 overview, Government Technology magazine, September 2001.
• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, June 5, 2000: Supply Chain Analytics.
• eCRM Evolution, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, November 16, 1999.
• Census 2000 Behind the Scenes, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, October 26, 1999.
• SuperCROSS Analytical Tabulation Engine (product review), Data Management Review magazine, July/August 1999.
• Toward Value-Added Decision Support, Intelligent Enterprise magazine, May 11, 1999.
• Object/Relational Reality Check, Database Programming & Design magazine, July 1998; Russian version.
• Intelligent Agents, Database Programming & Design magazine, April 1998.
  (Final, edited draft, PDF.)
• Modeling Object/Relational Databases, DBMS magazine, April 1998; Russian version
• The New Face of Data Access, Database Programming & Design magazine, February 1998.

News and Analysis articles

• Event Streams Gain Open Option, September 1, 2006.
• Open-Source BI Projects Take Off, July 1, 2006.
• Geek Fun: Event Stream Processing Entertains the Inner Nerd, June 1, 2006.
• Open-Source Releases Invade the Reporting Market, June 1, 2005.
• FBI Case Management System Marked for Termination, March 1, 2005.
• Microsoft Aims for High Performance Computing, July 10, 2004.
• SAS Moves "Beyond BI", April 17, 2004.
• Hyperion's Significant Entry, April 3, 2004.
• IT Research Gains Advocate For Government Funding, November 18, 2003.
• Oracle Goes Grid, October 10, 2003.
• Government Equivocates on TIA (Terrorism Information Awareness), July 18, 2003.
• SAS 9.1 Business Intelligence interfaces, June 17, 2003.
• Informatica PowerAnalyzer 4, May 31, 2003.

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