Clovian Ltd. is currently very active with two businesses, both in the software products sector, as a provider of strategy, planning, channel development and the execution of agreed plans to meet key targets.
Smart Vision Europe Ltd was established as a brand new start up in 2011 to realise the potential of working with IBM as an Accredited Business Partner. Smart Vision focuses on the selling, marketing, implementation and support of IBM Business Analytics and Data Science products.
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. This was a remarkable accolade and is testament to 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. The business has over 150 UK customers, working with them to develop their data science technology and capabilities. In addition, Smart Vision Europe is now involved in direct data science product development with a number of its strategic clients.
Analytical Factory Ltd is another start up software business and Clovian is both an operational contributor, investor and equity holder.
Analytical Factory was founded to act as the Tier 1 UK & European partner for Phebi Inc to specialise in the speech recognition revolution.
Having seen consumers across a wide demographic enthusiastically adopt voice interaction as a part of contemporary life, the founders of Phebi (pronounced FEE-bee) set out to help businesses join the voice economy quickly, easily and cost-effectively.
Phebi makes use of speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to create affordable, quick and easy to deploy software. Phebi improves business outcomes by voice-enabling market and survey research, e-commerce and a myriad of other consumer interactions.
The flagship solutions are the Phebi Plugin, which makes it easy to voice-enable any survey and the Phebi Portal, which makes it easy to transcribe voice data, to then explore, analyse and visualise voice, emotion and sentiment data in new and powerful ways. Additionally, there is Phebi Live, for understanding emotion in real-time.
Analytical Factory is based in the UK with a team, that includes Berni Simmons on behalf of Clovian, that has decades of practical experience of the core enabling technologies of NLP, AI and ML.