Sinequa

Sinequa /sɨˈnɛkwə/ is a French Unified Information Access software vendor.

Company overview

Sinequa is a software editor providing a real-time Big Data Search & Analytics platform. It offers users Unified Information Access to all textual and database data, supported by analytics including Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Company history

It was founded in 1984 as a linguistic laboratory under the name CORA which developed the foundation of the product that later became Sinequa Corporate Search. Sinequa was acquired in a leveraged buyout in 2004 by CEO Alexandre Bilger. Its name comes from

• the Latin phrase sine qua non (meaning “without which not”)
• a sine qua non item is one that is needed

Sinequa employs approximately 40 people in 3 countries (Paris, London and Frankfurt).

Customers

Sinequa provides services to Mercer, Siemens,^[1] Bouygues,^[2] Saint-Gobain,^[3] the French bank Crédit Agricole ^[4] and Atos.^[5]

Functions

The main functions offered by Sinequa are the followings:

• Access to all structured semi-structured and unstructured data
• Global semantic dictionary in six languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch)
• Dictionary and linguistic analysis in 20 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Russian
• Ability to easily create Search-Based Applications (SBA)
• Navigation in information, based on semantic axes, discovery of hidden correlations, semantically similar documents and cross-linguistic semantics
• Full, incremental and real-time indexing of billions of documents with an efficient hardware architecture.
• Capacity to generate sums, averages, and simple BI-type analytics on Terabytes even Petabytes structured data results sets (e.g., pie charts, graphs).

References

External links

• Sinequa website