Clarabridge Blog

A week ago I was in the MidWest demoing some of the newest capabilities from Enterprise 4; next week, I will be starting a journey that when complete will span 4 continents. Sometimes it feels like I’m in the George Clooney movie “Up in the Air,” well at least without the part where he fires people all day. But, THIS week shows the result of an even more remarkable journey –I’m here at our user conference, Clarabridge Customer Connections (C3) link in Orlando, FL.

Trade-offs are a part of life. I, for instance, used to only eat half of the Oreos® in the cookie packs in our break room. I’d rather do that than put extra time on a treadmill. In classification, there is an inherent trade-off between Recall and Precision, and I’d like to provide some background on those terms and on why the trade-off occurs.

Today we announced the GA release of our 4.0 version. We’re excited about the new functionality in this release, but even more excited about the great collaboration with our customers and partners that occurred to bring it about. Almost every new feature in 4.0 was the result from a customer at some point saying “wouldn’t it be nice if I could do X...” Working with our customer steering committee of 10 of our largest and most vocal (in a good way) customers, we worked to decide which of these ideas would provide the biggest additional business value to the users of Clarabridge. 

One of the highlights in this new version is the ability for authorized end-users of Clarabridge to directly upload their own data into their system straight through their web browser. What we found working with many of our large enterprise customers is that while the bulk of their verbatim came from their CRM and survey systems, that are typically directly connected to the Clarabridge server, they would often have users who would...