Validation for MatrixView and ABO
Posted by Mark Nelson on 13th February 2006 | Permanent Link
MatrixView has taken a lot of heat over the years for their ABO compression technology. Partly their fault, their marketing department turned up the hype to 11 and naturally raised some suspicion. But they’ve kept plugging away, and are making some sales in the medical area for lossless compression of noisy data.
So today I see a press release announcing that they’ve been granted an award from Frost & Sullivan:
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan selected MatrixView Limited as the recipient of the 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the field of lossless medical data compression for the inventive adaptive binary optimization (ABO(TM)). This technology enables the compression and decompression of digital data without the loss of diagnostically important information. It also helps enterprise networks achieve optimum real-time performance with their existing network infrastructures.
Each year, this Award is presented to a company that has carried out new research that has resulted in innovations that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. The Award recognizes the quality and depth of a company’s research and development program as well as the vision and risk taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.
Only thing is, Frost & Sullivan looks a lot more like a combination PR/consulting group than some highbrow technology group. Plus, try searching their site to find out more about their technology awards - like past winners, methdology, etc. Good luck!
Anyway, have a go at the press release - it reeks of self-promotion cross-pollinated with bogosity. This is exactly the kind of thing that has given MatrixView a bad rep, and it doesn’t look like they’ve learned their lesson.
March 6th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
[...] There never were any doubts regarding StuffIt as their technology is easily available with their desktop product. Someone from LetItWave dropped by and clarified some of the doubts surrounding their technology (check the comments at the above story). And with this new service, Even Technologies also seems to be having something real. But, there was another recent story on MatrixView which only added to their existing bad reputation. [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 10:27 pm
hi,
Its really a interesting invention…
Can you tell me how to get more information about ABO compression technique
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Unfortunately, even after all these years, you can’t find any technical information on their website, not even simple benchmark results comparing their technology to other established algorithms.
What did you find interesting about it?