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EECS 441- Company presentation
Wolfram Research was founded in 1987 by Stephen Wolfram. They develop computational technologies including Mathematica, their flagship product launched in 1988, and WolframAlpha, their question answering product launched in 2009. Wolfram Research has 100 employees, generates revenue through Wolfram Alpha Pro subscriptions, search engine licensing to Bing and DuckDuckGo, and enterprise solutions. Their key advantage is 30 years of research and development in computational technologies.
EECS 441- Company presentation
- 1. EECS 441 -Company Presentation Jashanjit Kaur
- 2. What do theydo? Searches the Web, ! looks for textual matches and returns links Generates a specific answer by doing computations from it’s knowledge base
- 4. History Wolfram Research! (Founded By ! Stephen Wolfram)! ! 1987 ! ! ! ! 1988! ! ! Mathematica ! (Flagship Product) ! ! ! ! 2009! ! ! A New Kind Of Science ! WolframAlpha ! (Launch) (Flagship Product)! ! ! 2002
- 5. What do theydo? “Make it possible to compute ! whatever can be computed about anything” Linguistic Analysis! ! Curated Data! Dynamic Computation ! ! Computed Presentation ! !
- 6. Financials • Aprivate company with no outside investors! ! • 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 ! ! • 100 employees
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- 8. Secret Sauce 30! years 30 years of long-term R&D and ongoing development of robust technology at Wolfram Research
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- 10. Competition Business Intelligence& Analytics
- 11. Buy or Sell? • Buy! • Applications of this technology are huge ‣ Licensing ‣ Business Intelligence ($14B/year) ‣ How can they market it for a layman?
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