Clovian acted as 'first people on the ground' for investors and also took an equity position in the business.
Clovian acted as 'first people on the ground' for the investors and also took an equity position in the business. Through Clovian's expertise and input the business quickly achieved its initial accreditation with IBM, putting all of the required infrastructure, process and resource in place. Clovian has subsequently enabled Smart Vision through its on-going growth and development.
Smart Vision Europe was selected by IBM as the European Business Partner of the Year – Business Analytics for 2012, a remarkable accolade reflecting its impressive revenue performance in the first 24 months of trading. Today Smart Vision Europe is one of IBM's leading Data Science & AI Business Partners with Gold Accreditation, working with over 150 UK customers to develop their data science technology and capabilities, and is now involved in direct data science product development with a number of its strategic clients.
Analytical Factory was founded to act as the Tier 1 UK & European partner for Phebi Inc, specialising in the speech recognition revolution. Phebi makes use of speech recognition, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to create affordable, quick and easy to deploy software that voice-enables market and survey research, e-commerce and other consumer interactions, through the Phebi Plugin, Phebi Portal and Phebi Live. Analytical Factory is based in the UK with a team, including Berni Simmons on behalf of Clovian, that has decades of practical experience in these core enabling technologies.