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The annual Fuld & Company survey included a review of 17 software packages, employed over 120 criteria, and ranked products across each of the five steps in the Competitive Intelligence Cycle. In the report, ClearForest scored highest of all vendors evaluated in Analysis & Production, the “intelligence generator” step where an analyst transforms the collected data points into a meaningful assessment that uncovers both implications and possible outcomes. As stated in the report, “this phase of the intelligence cycle is where ClearForest stands out among competitive intelligence solutions.” ClearForest also ranked above average in four out of the five steps.

Since the last Fuld review in 2002, ClearForest’s text analytics software has matured, now offering role-based analytic interfaces and out-of-the-box extraction modules that are intuitive and easily adaptable for competitive and market analysis. ClearForest’s solution is ideal for competitive intelligence professionals who are looking to extract a variety of vertical, functional and business problem oriented concepts and relationships.

“We are happy to be included in this report and enthusiastically support Fuld & Company’s emphasis on the need for not just technology alone, but technology which complements both people and process,” says Jay Henderson, Director of Product and Corporate Marketing at ClearForest. “For companies with the right people and processes in place, text analytics software, like ClearForest, can significantly enhance the value that competitive intelligence brings to organizations,” Henderson says.

To see the new Fuld report, please visit: http://www.fuld.com/Products/ISR2006/HomePage.html

About ClearForest
ClearForest Corporation is a provider of text analytics solutions, supplying the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. In allowing both to be analyzed simultaneously, ClearForest makes unified business intelligence a reality. Our award-winning solutions enable text driven business intelligence for customers such as Eastman Chemical, Reuters, Elsevier Science and International Finance Corporation to turn large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.

Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, MA. For more information, please visit http://www.clearforest.com. ©2006 ClearForest Corp.