Area served Worldwide Founded 2007 | Website www.yseop.com Type of business Privately held company | |
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Industry Software, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Founders John Rauscher, Alain Kaeser Headquarters Dallas, Texas, United States, New York City, New York, United States | ||
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Yseop (pronounced "Easy-Op") is a privately held multinational computer software company with offices in New York, London, Lyon, Sydney, Dallas and Paris. The company offers two self-service natural language generation products, Compose" and a plug and play product called "Yseop Savvy". Yseop Compose automates the writing or written reports in financial services, business intelligence, marketing and more. It writes in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. Savvy is a plug in for Microsoft Excel and Qlik Sense (with more integrations coming according to the website) that adds narrative to dashboards. Yseop Savvy is being offered as a free trial.
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Product
Yseop commercializes a natural language generation (NLG) software, which applies reasoning to data and turns it into written recommendations and reports at the speed of 3,000 pages per second. This software can also be used to write newspaper stories from data, which explain the motivation and context behind the numbers.
To date, Yseop's software can write in English, Spanish, French and German and is the only on premise self-service NLG software on the market.
Yseop's software is used across a variety of industries such as the Financial Industry (including, for example Société Générale and FactSet), and the E-commerce Industry (for example, vetonline
In March 2016, Yseop launched a new product called "Savvy". Yseop Savvy is a Plug and Play software that generates turns charts into written narrative in multiple languages. This software currently works with Qlik Sense and Microsoft Excel but Yseop has indicated on their website that they will be releasing further integrations.
Recognition
In 2014, Tom Austin, Vice President and fellow at Gartner, cited Yseop, Narrative Science and Automated Insights as part of the Smart Machine, technological revolution that "has the promise to be one of the most disruptive changes ever."
In 2014, Yseop was also listed as one of the "top 10 most innovative startups" in France by the Electronic Business Group at the Digital Innovation Summit in Paris.
In 2015, Yseop was honored as "Leading Vendor—Digital Solutions for Financial Advisors 2015" by MyPrivateBanking Research.
In 2015, The Economist featured Yseop in one of the front cover articles.
In 2016, Ventana research named Yseop's software one of the most innovative softwares in the US for the year 2016. [1]
History
Research and development for Yseop's technology began more than 20 years ago with a team from the mathematical lab called ENS Cachan in France.
Yseop first commercialized its product as a middleware at the end of 2008 and opened up its American subsidiary in Dallas, Texas in 2012.
Yseop was co-founded by Alain Kaeser and the current CEO John Rauscher after he sold his start-up called Sunopsis to Oracle in 2006.
Competitors
Competing companies with Yseop Composein the NLG industry include Narrative Science, a firm based in Chicago, Automated Insights, a firm based in Durham, North Carolina, and Arria NLG. Yseop;s software suite also competes indirectly with IBM Watson.