Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app
by petercooper on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:00AM
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Yeah, this is the model that I had in mind. There's a giant enterprise (and government!) market for this sort of stuff who rarely venture out into places as cool as HN ;-) (They can be tricky to sell to though given the time involved and even finding them in the first place.)
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Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app
by thom on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:33AM
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The issue we have with that market is twofold:
1) they often have sprawling, disparate data sources, with schemas designed by deranged people in the 80s or 90s. The cleaner (and admittedly smaller) your data, the easier you can integrate, and to be honest, there's probably a hard limit at some point beyond which we couldn't provide value without doing bespoke customisation.
2) there are some fearsome competitors at the higher level of the market, who offer wider business intelligence suites.
This may be fear-based thinking though.
Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app
by mseebach on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:22AM
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If you're not afraid, you're doing it wrong.
1) The more sprawling and disparate the data sources, the more deranged the schemas, the more money to be had making sense of it.
2) Enterprise consultancies are ripe for disruption. There exist exactly zero satistifed customers of these companies.