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Bertin Technologies acquires AMI Software and establishes itself as a key player in Web Content Mining
May 2015 by Marc Jacob
On 18 May 2015 Bertin Technologies (CNIM Group) finalized the acquisition of the company AMI Software and integrated it into Bertin IT, its dedicated Information Technology division. This fusion of Market Intelligence and Cyber Threat Detection specialists sees the creation of a key player in Web Content Mining, whose international outlook is supported by an industrial group with a presence in 15 countries.
A reference company in technological and industrial innovation, Bertin Technologies is seeking to accelerate the growth of its Bertin IT division, which develops and integrates advanced software solutions for cyber-security, cyber threat intelligence and voice recognition purposes. Through the acquisition of AMI Software – a leader in the development of software for gathering, managing and processing textual data from the Internet – the CNIM Group subsidiary is solidifying its ambitions to expand both in France and internationally in the Web Content Mining.
Through its dedicated Market Intelligence and social media monitoring products, AMI Software has won more than 150 clients, both in France and overseas, including several major industrial accounts and public bodies. With locations in a number of countries owing to its two subsidiaries (in the United Kingdom and Morocco) and its network of partners (in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East), the company has also established itself on the international stage. CNIM Group’s global presence will offer further scope for expansion.
An alliance of technological expertise for fully secure intelligence
As a result of this acquisition, an alliance of recognized technological expertise and industry know-how in both the Civil and Defense & Security sectors will be forged, creating a unique value proposition on the market.
Combining Bertin IT’s skills in analyzing multilingual multimedia content, in particular audio and video sources, with AMI Software’s textual data research and processing capabilities will provide for improved extraction of the wealth of content transmitted via the Internet, thus fulfilling even the most exacting data management requirements.
The processing capabilities of MediaCentric® – Bertin IT’s flagship solution, which major players in cyber-security, in particular in the Defense sector, have been using since 2013 – will consequently be enhanced. Likewise, the Market Intelligence and Social Media Monitoring platform offered by AMI Software will benefit from high-added-value technology bricks to help with the collection and processing of new sources of data.
New synergies are also emerging with Bertin IT’s information systems security experts. The need to protect the data collection and analysis environment and to ensure that it remains completely confidential has become an increasingly pressing concern for key players in strategic watch notably. The cyber-security solutions devised by Bertin IT provide a response to this problem by offering secure data transfers (via network interconnection gateways), partitioning of sensitive information (via multi-domain workstations) and checking that no harmful content is present (via USB drive decontamination stations).
