EECS 441 - Company Presentation Jashanjit Kaur

Searches the Web, !looks for textual matches

and returns links

Generates a specific answer by doing computations from

it’s knowledge base

What do they do?

History

Wolfram Research !(Founded By !

Stephen Wolfram)!!

1987

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1988!!

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Mathematica !(Flagship Product)

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2009!!

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WolframAlpha !(Launch)

A New Kind Of Science !(Flagship Product)!

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2002

“Make it possible to compute !

whatever can be computed about anything”

Linguistic Analysis!!

Curated Data!

Dynamic Computation !!

Computed Presentation !!

What do they do?

Financials • A private company with no outside investors!

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• Revenue Model:!- Wolfram Alpha Pro ($5.49 per month) and other paid iOS apps!- Licensing: Search Engines (Bing and DuckDuckGo) and Voice Q/A (Siri, S Voice

and more) !- Enterprise and Custom Solutions !

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• 100 employees

What’s hot?

Secret Sauce

30 years of long-term R&D and ongoing development of robust technology at Wolfram Research

30 !

years

Story Time

Competition

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Buy or Sell?

• Buy!

• Applications of this technology are huge

‣ Licensing

‣ Business Intelligence ($14B/year)

‣ How can they market it for a layman?

Questions?