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SynerScope now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to SynerScope’s Ixivault to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

HELVOIRT, The Netherlands — February 21, 2024 — SynerScope, the better, faster, safer solution for your data problems, today announced the availability of its cloud native Ixivault solution in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. SynerScope’s customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

SynerScope’s Ixivault accelerates identification and labelling of unstructured data and dark data enabling enterprises to turn data into intelligence. It also provides a data vault in Microsoft Azure blob or Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage where you can safely store your enterprise data, even the lesser-known parts of it. By unifying your data, no matter where it lives, Ixivault resolves your data disarray and helps deliver a single source of truth for better decision making.

“Microsoft Azure Marketplace truly delivers on the benefits it promises to both customers and ISVs. The simplification of the procurement process in this first-ever purchase via the Azure Marketplace by a Dutch government shared datacenter demonstrates the value of this partnership. We will now be able to deploy our solution is a matter of hours and transactions will be consolidated in a single invoice through the Azure portal. This will help the government agency monitor and control expenses across the organization by using defined roles and permissions,” said Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO of SynerScope.

“Microsoft welcomes SynerScope’s Ixivault to Azure Marketplace, where global customers can find, try, and buy from among thousands of partner solutions,” said Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. “Azure Marketplace and trusted partners like SynerScope help customers do more with less by increasing efficiency, buying confidently, and spending smarter.”

Key features of SynerScope Ixivault:

  • Visual scanner of ALL data (including unstructured data) that makes cluster labeling possible
  • Automated sorting by content
  • Propose labels by cluster, leaving room for domain experts to validate, choose, and adjust where necessary

Key benefits for you as a user:

  • Easy and safe to deploy through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
  • Deployed directly in your own Microsoft Azure tenant
  • Serverless for flexible scaling and cost control
  • Easy to use, a short training course is available

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

Learn more about SynerScope’s Ixivault solution and get it now by visiting its page on the Azure Marketplace.

ABOUT SYNERSCOPE

As a disruptor and innovator in information management, the world of dark data is our first concern. We reduce the cost of dark data discovery thousandfold by using every advantage from a Microsoft Azure cloud first strategy. By getting to know your data you can efficiently arrange and run protection, access control, publication, retention, AI analytics processing and the archiving and purging of your data.

For more information, press only:

Annelieke Nagel, SynerScope, +31-88-2553282, info@synerscope.com

KPMG and Synerscope launch their Alliance to help businesses fight financial crime

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Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 16, 2019

KPMG (NL) and SynerScope

KPMG (NL) and SynerScope, a Dutch software scale up, today announced their alliance to offer enhanced services offerings with a focus on the Dutch financial services industry to combat financial crime through the use of SynerScope’s patented technology. SynerScope combines big data, artificial intelligence driven detection of anomalies and fraud, with strong visualizations to achieve speed in tight human-computer collaboration. The KPMG- SynerScope partnership focuses on the improvement of data-driven Customer Due Diligence (CDD), the Know Your Customer (KYC) and uncovering and blocking of money flows specifically targeting money laundering (AML) in the financial sector.

Both KPMG and SynerScope, as partners of Microsoft, look to expand their solution on the global Microsoft Azure footprint. “Microsoft encourages alliances between trusted partners like Synerscope and KPMG to fight financial crime. The combination of human ingenuity and technology can drive business relevancy in the financial services industry.” Raimond Nol, Director Financial Services Netherlands, Microsoft

Not just manpower

“To strengthen Customer Due Diligence, Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering form the absolute priority for financial institutions”, says Leonie de Hek, KPMG Forensic. De Hek: “tens of millions are being invested to enhance the processes, mostly by taking on more people that can check. But taking on extra people only does not have the required effect. The solution is in the combination of humans and technology. Upfront smart data analysis will ensure that people are being deployed on transactions and customers with a high risk factor.

A lot of financial institutions struggle with the large volumes and different types of data, structured and especially unstructured. By being able to process large volumes and different types of structured and unstructured data, the KPMG – SynerScope alliance is able to provide their clients insights that previously were hidden, or too time intensive to extract.

Early Detection of Irregularities

KPMGs global expertise in financial accounting and technological integration of business processes, combined with SynerScope´s robust software platforms, will provide an immensely powerful system to recognize financial irregularities through advanced Technology. “Combining the capabilities of KPMG and SynerScope will herald a major step forward in the way financial crime can be investigated”, says Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO of SynerScope. The patented technology is complementary with the current data analysis systems. Our platform distinguishes itself by being able to process raw source data and to combine all types of data. This closes the gap between data scientists and domain experts. This results in the effective use of limited capacity for identification of transactions and customer groups with a high risk.

Translation into strategic decisions

According to Buenen, the alliance will not only allow customers to truly understand and know their data, but also how to translate these insights into sound business decisions. It is the human capacity to ask questions and think in an associative manner that allows them to recognize patterns. It is precisely for this reason that subject matter experts are needed together with technology to arrive at meaningful insights in data analysis.

 

 

KPMG alliance Synerscope

About SynerScope

SynerScope is a High-Tech Dutch software company, founded in 2011 as a spin-off of Eindhoven University. The company focuses on developing techniques and products to process big amounts of complex data faster than traditional solutions. Resulting in easy to use, affordable and highly effective technology. In order to support you when you need data the most, to take important management strategic or daily operational decisions, or to show you new strategic business opportunities at one glance. The company currently employs 27 people that deliver next-generation data platform solutions Ixiwa and Iximeer.

About KPMG Nederland

Since 1917, KPMG has been offering high-quality services in the field of accountancy and advice in the Netherlands. We support organizations to make informed decisions and to excel in the world of today and tomorrow. We do this on the assumption that progress is only real progress if it is good for people and society. “People-driven progress” is our view on progress and the way in which we want to add value for our customers with our services. KPMG Nederland employs three thousand professionals located in twelve offices. The Dutch practice is conducted from Amstelveen. KPMG Nederland is part of an international network of independent KPMG offices that is managed from Canada.

For information, contact:

Ineke Swerissen
SynerScope
+31623644933
ineke.swerissen@synerscope.com

Andy Bellm,
KPMG The Netherlands
(020) 656 7039

Sometimes Too Good To Be True Blocks Disruptive Innovation

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Author: Jan-Kees Buenen

Over the last few months we have had the opportunity to present our SynerScope Ixiwa solution to many prospect corporations and potential business partners. I have learned a lot from these conversations, both on how to make our offering even more user-friendly, as well as on which technical developments should be prioritized.

Disruptive technology

The most interesting insight however that I got from all these meetings directly results from having truly disruptive technology: generally people do not believe some of the things Ixiwa can do. They think it is too good to be true. For example, people do not believe that we can tag, analyze, categorize and match content of a data lake at a record level without having pre-created metadata. Other people struggle with believing that we can match structured and unstructured data without pre-defined search logic. They question if our patented many-to-many correlator truly can group content, elements or objects in logical clusters. Or they wonder if it is true that business users can easily add and use data-sets in the lake without IT support. Frankly stated: they think we oversell the capabilities of our platform.

Faster, high quality and value generating insights

So we learned we need to show what we can do as early as possible in the relationship; we demo on real data in a real data lake in a live environment so that our partners and clients can first hand experience how our technology works. And when we get to this point, people become enthusiastic and brainstorm about the projects they could do with our technology. Which of course is what we want; deploying our technology to help customers and partners get faster, high quality and value generating insights out of their data.

Demo our capabilities

So please do us a favor and give us a chance by allowing us to demo our capabilities, even if you don’t immediately believe our story. We promise we won’t disappoint you.

Artificial Intelligence ready for “aincient” cultures?

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Author: Annelieke Nagel

 

Google, Aincient.org, Synerscope and the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities are creating a revolutionary acceleration in antiquities research

Last Monday I was present at the launch of a fantastic initiative for Egyptian art lovers around the world! A more apt setting was not possible as the presentations were organized in front of the Temple of Taffeh, an ancient Egyptian temple built by order of the Roman emperor Augustus.

Egyptologist Heleen Wilbrink, founder of Aincient.org, Andre Hoekzema, Google country manager Benelux and Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO SynerScope were the presenters that afternoon.

Aincient.org is the driving force behind this pilot project. Thus all presentations were geared towards explaining the need for protection of the world heritage through digitally capturing the art treasures and even more importantly, being able to research them and accelerate discoveries by merging all data sources.  To secure the progress of this kind of research, it also depends on support of outside funds. (If you are interested, please go to www.aincient.org for further information)

The current online collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO)), consists of around 57,000 items and can now be searched within hours, in a way previously not possible, thanks to SynerScope’s powerful software built on top of Google Cloud Vision API.

The more in-depth technical explanation of the software and partnerships involved, was compelling as it linked Artificial Intelligence and deep learning together with artifacts and an open mind, in order to make this project possible.

This unique pilot program needed to unlock all data available (text, graphs, photos/video, geo, numbers, audio, IoT, biomed, sensors, social) easy and very fast!

The large group of objects (60,000 in this instance but the RMO has another 110,000 more to do) from various siloed databases was categorized and brought together into SynerScope’s data visualisation software: images and texts simultaneously available, linked to a time and location indicator. The system indicates the metadata and descriptions certain items have in common, and the similarities in appearances.

As CEO Jan-Kees Buenen put it: “At SynerScope, we offer quick solutions to develop difficult-to-link data and databases, making them comprehensible and usable”.

Through Aincient.org the RMO online collection can be linked to external databases from other museums around the world. Thus it generated a lot of interest from museums like Teylers Museum Haarlem, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Foundation Digital Heritage (Stichting DEN). They were all present to absorb the state-of-the art information that was presented. Interestingly enough some Egyptologists present expressed their slight scepticism to embrace this new technology to unlock the ancient culture.

We will soon notice that the outcome of the researched data will be used as a source of inspiration for new exposition topics, and I am sure it will also progressively serve the worldwide research community.

I believe this latest technology is the future of the past!

SynerScope announces Gold ISV partner status for Hortonworks

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January 16, 2017, The Netherlands – SynerScope, the Big Data Analytics innovator, today announced its GOLD ISV status for Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Hortonworks Data Flow (HDF). Hortonworks, a leading innovator of open and connected data platforms has certified SynerScope’s solution and expertise for the Insurance Industry.  As a member of the Hortonworks Partnerworks community, SynerScope is able to develop, test, certify, deploy and support joint solutions as well as gain access to technical and marketing resources.

Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO of SynerScope, said:  “Insurance companies often need to act really quickly due to suddenly changing circumstances. This requires fast decision-making based on current data.  Customers are keen to find and fully understand data patterns to enable insight and action that directly impact business objectives.  We believe our partnership with Hortonworks will give the insurance industry instruments for real-time, ultra-fast decision making by domain experts for continuous improvement.”

The insurance industry is undergoing a radical transformation and regulators are demanding greater focus on solvability. The Hortonworks certified SynerScope solution enables customers to reduce costs and risks, improve efficiency, generate new revenue, drive growth and comply with regulations. SynerScope has linked its advanced high speed visualization technology to HDP. This combination provides machine learning and advanced analysis but also helps avoid creating any specific database lock-ins.  NoSQL, Search and in-memory SQL integrated databases complete the technology stack that allows insurance carriers and other enterprises to become data driven in strategic analysis and operations.

Cindy Maike, general manager for insurance at Hortonworks, commented: “Our customers want insights delivered at the speed of business. Synerscope accelerates customer success with reduced implementation times with its insurance industry knowledge and expertise.”

 

 

Kaspersky and Synerscope join forces to battle cyberthreats with Big Aata Analytics

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We are thrilled to announce the partnership between Kaspersky Lab, the world largest privately owned cybersecurity company and SynerScope. We will work together to build a unique innovative offering in the fight against fraud and financially based cybercrime by combining Kaspersky Lab’s powerful Fraud Prevention solutions with SynerScope’s ultra-fast big data analytics technologies. Together, Kaspersky Labs and SynerScope provide a unique sharable interface on cyber data that has tremendous potential. The partnership is set to shape the future of cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence services.

CEO of SynerScope, Jan-Kees Buenen says: “With our technology, we can take structured and unstructured data from malware, phishing, spam, texting, social media and digital images and reveal a clearer picture of cyberthreats faced by organisations. This is achieved by running the data through ultra-fast appliances using Dell, IBM and Nvidia components which drastically increases the volume of data that can be brought into scope. In turn, this enables security experts to better understand and make better decisions on how to thwart imminent attacks.” “The future of understanding malware, threats, intrusion and abnormal behaviours lies in data science technologies, ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning, thus, together with Kaspersky Lab we can take cybersecurity to a new frontier.”

Alex Moiseev, Managing Director of Kaspersky Lab Europe, said he sees great potential in his company’s partnership with SynerScope. “Not only do we see an immediate opportunity to combine our technologies and create an offering of genuine value that can help in the fight against fraud and cybercrime, but we see future opportunities to work together to create cutting edge and never-seen-before solutions to shore up cybersecurity defences and keep the financial industry safe,” Moiseev said. “It’s just the beginning of our relationship with SynerScope, but we can already see a path upon which to walk with them. I am confident that with our combined strengths, intelligence and research capabilities, it’s a path which will lead us to exciting developments in years to come.”