Continuing to outline new channel opportunities in data and storage management, revealed at this week’s IT Press Tour in Lisbon, here’s another one.
IT Europa attended the event, and reported on a NetApp services opportunity for the channel from Cleondris yesterday.
Nuclia
Nuclia is a low-code API that allows companies to build AI-powered search engines for any data from any source.
As far as Nuclia is concerned, traditional intranet search is dead, which is hard to argue against when trying to find anything on most company websites. The content often exists, but without the right intelligence built into the site, it’s not discoverable.
The company says search has to be improved with better algorithms built in, which is what it provides. It allows users to search for internal content in Zoom meeting recordings, Word documents, training videos or any other data source.
At the moment, the technology is run through Google Cloud, but the firm is “cloud agnostic”. The offering supports data masking, GDPR compliance and other general data security management needs.
Apparently, the company was approached by a national army to use its technology, but CEO Eudald Camprubí said he preferred not to work with such organisations.
Building company Atlas Group is an existing customer. David Harper, CTO, said: “Construction projects require thousands of documents to be accessed and processed, from BIM models to inventory tracking for supply chains to daily and monthly reports. The problem is that this data is relatively unstructured and is often located in multiple cloud drives, making it difficult to find project information quickly and accurately.
“After adding Nuclia as our centralised search, our customers can search, retrieve and action specific information quickly and accurately, whether that is a PDF document, video or geometric design data.”
The pricing model is based on the amount of data that users want to index and the number of search enquiries.
Camprubí said of growth: “We’ve been contacted by a number of potential investors recently, particularly from the US, but right now we’re not seeking new investors.”
Crane in the UK, and elaia in France are existing investors in the Barcelona, Spain-headquartered startup. Currently, total sales are modest, with the company generating under €100,000 so far this year, but it has generated €400,000 so far for next year, it says, based on firm sales commitments.
On the channel strategy, Camprubí said: “We have no sales or marketing team, we are looking to increase business through partners, including resellers and system integrators.”
More from the IT Press Tour will follow.
