Rocket Software Acquires AeroText Suite From Lockheed Martin

Rocket Software announced that it has purchased the AeroText suite of text-mining and content analysis applications from Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT). The acquisition was supported by Fluid Innovation an Austin-based company that focuses on bringing to market software technologies that were originally developed by large companies for their internal use. Under terms of the purchase, support and maintenance contracts will be automatically assigned to Rocket and will run to term. Subsequent renewals will be managed by Rocket, which will also provide all technical support, training, consulting and forward product development. The AeroText product suite provides an information extraction system for developing knowledge-based content analysis applications. The technology is aimed at developing a core understanding of content contained within unstructured text, such as emails and documents, as well as an ability to automatically reconcile information cited across multiple documents. AeroText was originally developed by Lockheed Martin and is often integrated into other solutions. AeroText solutions provide both information extraction and link analysis capabilities by converting unstructured information into structured information. http://www.rs.com, http://www.fluidinnovation.com