Not logged in

Sobayli (pronounced so-bye-lee): From the Native American language Alabama, means to learn, recognize, and remember. We chose it because our technology applies these capabilities to a wide variety of tasks. It also echoes the Alabama roots of our key partners: Agnihotri, Borden, Buchanan, Silverman and Turner. Before being called Sobayli, we were called the Nexus Holdings Group.

Founded in 2003, Sobayli is a partnership located in Garden City, New York and Bethesda, Maryland. Its principal managing partners are Dr. Naveen Agnihotri and Walter Borden. The Chairman of the Board of Managers is the Honorable John H. Buchanan, former congressman from Alabama. The Advisory Board is chaired and directed by Dr. Richard Turner.

From the private sector to academia to government, 21st century organizations need to understand and recognize trends as well as subtle patterns in the large volumes of data they collect. Traditional stores of paper have been replaced by disks and tapes containing gigabytes of email, text documents, relational database records, images, multimedia clips, geospatial data and more - all in different formats and typically stored in disparate repositories. Researchers at Sobayli are developing technology products that derive knowledge and provide insight from structured and unstructured data in repositories and streams, through the organization, retrieval, and presentation of relevant information. These technologies include:

  • Tools that search and automatically serve content relevant to users in relation to known user profiles or current tasks (i.e., personalization).
  • Tools that enable users with little programming experience to quickly and easily develop lightweight, "on the fly" applications for specific tasks.
  • Multi-media analysis and authoring tools.
The Internet is now the dominant information exchange system across the globe. This global operating system is as varied and nonlinear as the world itself, as it encompasses multiple languages, cultures, geographies, and types of content. Sobayli endeavors to contribute next-generation search and discovery applications containing powerful, real-time analytic tools that complement indexing and ranking capabilities. These tools enable users to systematically and intelligently harvest relevant information from the large volumes of data found across this global operating system. Sobayli markets its technologies to organizations that depend on the Internet for research, collaboration, competitive intelligence, and customer-relationship management. These organizations tend to share several common objectives:
  • Increasingly efficient search, retrieval, and analysis of relevant content.
  • Mining areas of the Internet inaccessible to ordinary search engines.
  • Quick assessment of streaming content before it has been "tagged".
  • Visualization mechanisms and interfaces that enable users to quickly analyze search results for relevance.