Treehouse Software partner, Cognistx to present at The Big Data Summit 2017 in Germany

Dr. Florian Metze, Partner and Chief Speech Scientist at Cognistx, will be presenting “Speech and Deep QA (Question Answering) Developments” as part of a special Cognitive Computing track at the Big Data Summit 2017 to be held in Germany, February 16, 2017.

Dr. Metze will be showcasing how Cognitive Computing, Deep QA and context sensitive end-to-end ASR can be utilized to provide extremely intelligent solutions with an extremely simple user interface. The user can ask questions about e.g. their wireless devices and bills, power tools and home appliances, etc. The system proactively engages the user via a Question Generation (QG) module and then provides the right solution or content based on the user queries. The strength of the solution lies in an intuitive voice user interface, an interactive QG module, and its ability to synthesize large quantities of structured and un-structured data to provide the right answer based on the user query.

He will also discuss recent trends in US academia and industry that have been enabled by the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence using large amounts of data and novel machine learning algorithms.

Dr. Florian Metze is an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a PhD from Universität Karlsruhe (TH), and has previously worked at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. Dr. Florian is currently a Partner and Chief Speech Scientist at Cognistx.

For more information on this event, visit the BITKOM Big Data Summit website.

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The Treehouse Software / Cognistx Connection

Additionally, representatives from Treehouse will be in attendance with Cognistx at the Big Data Summit. Rolf Vollmer, Treehouse Software European Sales Manager and Hans-Peter Will, Treehouse Software Senior Technical Representative will be available to meet with those interested in learning about how the Cognistx platform complements Treehouse Software’s tcVISION. tcVISION is the comprehensive product that can acquire data in bulk or via change data capture methods, including in real time, from virtually any IBM mainframe data source (Software AG Adabas, IBM DB2, IBM VSAM, IBM IMS/DB, CA IDMS, CA Datacom, even sequential files), and transform and deliver to virtually any target. In addition, the same product can extract and replicate data from a variety of non-mainframe sources, including Adabas LUW, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 LUW and DB2 BLU, IBM Informix and PostgreSQL.

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Treehouse Software Partners with Stone Bond Technologies to offer comprehensive enterprise Data Virtualization

Press Contacts: Joe Brady (+1.724.759.7070 x110; jbrady@treehouse.com); Irma Barrientos (+1 713.300.8882; ibarrientos@stonebond.com)

Pittsburgh, PA; Houston, TX, November 17, 2016. ­ Treehouse Software, Inc., of Sewickley, PA and Stone Bond Technologies, L.P. of Houston, TX today announced a partnership to bring agile integration and data virtualization capabilities to every enterprise. Now mainframe data sources can be combined into virtual schemata with relational databases, ERP data, Cloud sources and social media by combining Stone Bond’s Enterprise Enabler® with Treehouse’s tcACCESS.

Since the mid-1990s, Treehouse has been a global leader in mainframe data migration, replication and integration, offering robust and flexible solutions for ETL, CDC and real-time, multidirectional replication between databases on various platforms. With Enterprise Enabler, Treehouse customers benefit from a single platform for enterprise and Cloud integration to deliver integration projects with up to 90% time savings over other solutions.

Treehouse will provide worldwide product sales, marketing and support for Enterprise Enabler, bringing leading-edge integration capabilities to its hundreds of existing customers and to new customers pursuing initiatives such as Agile BI, Master Data Management, Logical Data Warehouses and Web Services.

One of the fastest-growing data virtualization platforms on the market, Enterprise Enabler has been leading the innovation of data management, data federation and data virtualization for nearly 15 years. To serve its expanding base of customers, Stone Bond has grown its set of AppComm™ connectors to accommodate the widest range of enterprise and line-of-business data sources. Treehouse’s tcACCESS effectively becomes the “Mainframe AppComm”, providing full read/write access to a wide range of mainframe data sources on both z/OS and z/VSE platforms.

Wayne Lashley, Treehouse Chief Business Development Officer, said, “Our reputation for capably solving mainframe data integration challenges now extends to other modern enterprise data sources including SAP, Salesforce.com and Microsoft SharePoint. With the push of a button, our customers can securely expose these disparate virtualized sources to popular BI tools like Tableau and to other applications in standard formats like REST and JSON. Current, past and new customers can look to Treehouse to address any imaginable integration scenario.”

Commented Tom Sieger, Stone Bond SVP, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, “Embracing mainframe data sources bolsters the “enterprise” in Enterprise Enabler. We are excited to work with Treehouse to grow Enterprise Enabler sales into new markets and geographies.”

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About Treehouse Software, Inc.
Privately-held Treehouse Software was founded in 1982, and has hundreds of customers worldwide that benefit from the company’s industry-leading products and outstanding technical support. The traditional strengths of the company in performance management, security and software configuration management have been complemented by visionary leadership in mainframe data replication and integration and application modernization.

About Stone Bond Technologies, L.P.
Headquartered in the heart of Houston, Texas, Stone Bond Technologies was founded in 2002 with a commitment to innovation that continues today. More than just adding features to existing offerings, the company’s approach to information business systems is to make an enterprise’s data agile: to move data efficiently and easily, without barriers. Stone Bond’s client base continues to expand from its roots in the Energy industry to Financial Services, Life Sciences, Information Technology, Hospitality, Manufacturing and more.