Xerox Corp’s most imaginative initiative in recent years has been the Xerox New Enterprises in-house venture capital operation formed to exploit in-house research, run from company headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, and one of its fledglings is now ready to fly the next. The New Enterprises unit has turned an off-shoot of the XSoft software portfolio company into InXight Software Inc, which was conceived in 1991 to develop software essential to document processing. Intelligent information access software that has been developed by InXight – despite the spelling, you are meant to say it Insight – is designed to enhance other software products to make it easier for end-users to conduct in-depth searches, summarize and analyze text and graphically visualize information. XSoft already spawned InConcert and Chrystal last May, and Xerox is retaining the Visual Recall document management products, so with the launch of InXight, XSoft has now fulfilled its function and disappears. InXight’s products, available as component technology, are used by software companies to improve the availability and access of information. They include natural language software for finding and analyzing text-based information as well as graphical user interface software for retrieving, displaying and analyzing information visually. InXight has a license agreement with Verity Inc for the company’s suite of linguistic software, and other customers include InfoSeek Inc, Oracle Corp, America Online Inc, NetCarta Inc and Fujitsu Ltd.
