News: Where are the text analytics unicorns?

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Customer-strategy maven Paul Greenberg made a thought-provoking remark to me back in 2013. Paul was puzzled — Why haven’t there been any billion-dollar text analytics startups? “Text analytics” is a term for software and business processes that apply natural language processing (NLP) to extract business insights from social, online, and enterprise text sources. The context: Paul and I were in a taxi to the airport following the 2013 Clarabridge Customer Connections conference.

Clarabridge is a text-analytics provider that specializes in customer experience management (CEM). CEM is an extremely beneficial approach to measuring and optimizing business-customer interactions, if you accept research such as Harvard Business Review’s 2014 study, Lessons from the Leading Edge of Customer Experience Management. Witness the outperform stats reported in tables such as the one to the right.

Authorities including “CX Transformist” Bruce Temkin will tell you that CEM is a must-do and that text analytics is essential to CEM (or should that be CXM?) done right. So will Clarabridge and rivals that include Attensity, InMoment, MaritzCX, Medallia, NetBase, newBrandAnalytics, NICE, SAS, Synthesio, and Verint. Each has text analytics capabilities, whether the company’s own or licensed from a third-party provider. Their text analytics extracts brands, product/service, and feature mentions and attributes, as well as customer sentiment, from social postings, survey responses, online reviews, and other “voice of the customer” sources.

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