Semantic Web Deals Continue: Yahoo, Yes, But Blackbaud Too (Semantic Web)

Los escépticos tienen en esta noticia la oportunidad de curarse: la web semántica avanza por todos los frentes. emergen proyectos y, desde que Google comprar Freebase de Metaweb el pasado 16 de julio se suceden las noticias  en este sentido. Ahora es Yahoo que ha comprado Dapper.Por otro lado, Blackbaud ha hecho lo propio con NOZA. 

There were two acquisitions in the semantic web space this week. One you definitely heard of: Yahoo bought semantic web-based platform Dapper, as it is a big play in the former’s continuing push into the dynamic display ads space (co-founder Eran Shir explains here). Perhaps another of the acquisitions didn’t make it onto your radar, but if you’re one of the one million non-profits in the U.S. trying to attract dollars with few resources in a time when giving’s been tight, it will be of greater interest to you. Blackbaud, which provides primarily fundraising-related software and services to the sector, acquired NOZA, reportedly the world's largest searchable database of charitable donations that contains nearly 50 million donation records to U.S. nonprofits as well as more than 2 million Canadian giving records. Blackbaud counts approximately 22,000 customers located in 75 countries using its technology, with the largest organization reaching a donor base in excess of 25 million individuals. It had revenues of $309 million last year. With NOZA, formerly a partner, now a piece of its portfolio, Blackbaud sees an opportunity to dive deeper into the analytics space, and help customers and potential clients more finely tune their ability to target the sources most likely to support their causes – the goal being less manual work required to identify those individuals or organizations and fewer dollars spent on chasing less likely givers. Charitable contributions have been either flat or down, depending on which sector you look at, Blackbaud notes. “Last year was the first year, if you exclude inflation, that giving was down in probably 20 years,” says Chris South, vice president of Target Analytics, the Blackbaud company that’s been working with Noza in a partnership capacity. “So some are doing well, but there are more that have been feeling the pain as consumers have felt the pain of these times.”

Publicado en Semantic Web el: 10/8/2010 1:45:52 PM

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