Telstra-owned IT services company, KAZ, has acquired the intellectual property and customer contracts of business intelligence company, Intology Ltd.

Founded in 1996, Intology provides information management services and solutions to Government and other organisations, especially those who need to synthesise information locked in technical terms, complex documents or held by individual business units.

Headquartered in Canberra, the company’s customers include Defence and intelligence organisations as well as several of Australia’s largest corporations. 

Among Intology’s suite are applications that categorise and establish the meaning of structured and unstructured data. This includes by creating metadata, taxonomies, glossaries, a thesaurus and other text functions, as well as scanning texts and producing summaries of documents’ meanings.

Intology’s suite provides a range of self-learning applications for categorising and establishing meaning in structured and unstructured data

This includes through flexible processes of extracting keywords, summaries, names of people, organisations, dates and acronyms from documents, as well as identifying relationships between documents and their contents. This is backed by interfaces that, through search engine technologies for desktops, intranets and the Web, provide links to related content.

Intology’s toolset also includes classification and clustering methods for identifying and purging duplicates and out-of-date material without disrupting day-to-day operations, as well as organising content and locating groups of similar documents. In addition, the platform enables users to source Microsoft Office documents based on content rather than file location or name.

KAZ’s ACT Regional General Manager, Michael Blake, said, “For KAZ, the Intology platform is a best-of-breed toolset that strengthens the scope of services we offer to Government and other enterprises. We have identified significant opportunity for integrating Intology applications into solutions – and we see this acquisition as a means of increasing our business and value to private and public sector clients.”

Ralph Meyen, founder and managing director of Intology added, “We have considered several potential partnerships over the years, however, from working with KAZ on a number of projects we realise KAZ’s team has the capacity to leverage the potential of the Intology platform.

“We believe this business intelligence platform is the logical solution for companies operating in complex or highly regulated environments – and we look forward to joining with KAZ to promote this solution in the months and years ahead.”