Saffron Technology partners with corporations, government agencies and universities to co-develop new technology, commercialize industry-specific research and analysis and applications, or deliver strategically competitive data analysis solutions to our mutual customers. In every relationship, the Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform helps our partners and customers discover and manage The World of Experience inside their data, so they save time and money, and increase productivity. To learn more about Saffron’s alliances, review the links below. To explore becoming a Saffron partner, please contact us.
Strategic Partners
SAP 
Saffron uses SAP Text Analysis to identify the people, places and things in unstructured text before ingesting unstructured sources into SaffronMemoryBase.
Saffron’s ability to unify unstructured data sources – such as text documents, html, email, and unstructured text within structured data sources – with transactional and other traditionally structured data sources creates an exploitable, unified knowledge base to apply to decision support, prediction and of course sense making.
CDG
Together CDG and Saffron deliver enhanced sense-making, decision support and predictive analytics support, combined with data management leadership and solutions implementation power. Economic impacts on defense policy and procurement practices are driving aerospace and defense companies to become far leaner and smarter in their operations than ever before. For some, it’s a matter of survival. CDG is leveraging this state-of-the-art technology from Saffron to help its customers drive significant value from the engineering and logistics data they already use on a daily basis, by extracting intelligence from that data to improve competitiveness and lower costs across the entire supply chain.
CDG, a Boeing Company, is a world-class strategic partner providing industry-leading Engineering Solutions, Technical Documentation, Training Solutions, and Process Consulting to organizations in multiple industries. For more information, visit the CDG website at www.cdgnow.com.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Saffron participates in the Booz Allen preferred vendor program. Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, works with clients to deliver results that endure. Booz Allen Hamilton combines a consultant’s unique problem-solving orientation with deep technical knowledge and strong execution to help clients achieve success in their most critical missions.
Technology & Hardware Partners
Rackspace Hosting 
Rackspace® Hosting is a member of the Saffron Natural Intelligence Network of global business partners, providing Saffron customers a portfolio of computer platforms for hosting the Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform and related applications. Likewise, Saffron is an approved Channel Partner and a certified member of the Rackspace Partner Program. Rackspace is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers for its broad portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com
K3 Enterprises, Inc
K3 is an authorized reseller of Saffron’s Natural Intelligence Platform for US Government clients and customers. K3 is an innovative global conveyor of information solutions and related services, enhancing quality customer relationships while maintaining uncompromising principles. Saffron’s products and services can be purchased through K3’s current GSA schedule.
BrightPlanet
BrightPlanet’s Deep Harvester technology provides a robust framework to harvest and populate domain-specific content silos of data from 1) the conventional (surface) Web, 2) the much larger more authoritative Deep Web, 3) proprietary data sources such as Lexis/Nexis, Dow Jones/Factiva, and 4) customers’ internal data sources. The Deep Harvester not only harvests mission critical data from structured data bases, but can harvest data from the geometrically growing store of unstructured information on the Web. Deep Harvesting Web data returns mission critical documents instead of simply returning the most popular links from conventional search such as Google or Yahoo!. Regardless of the source language, document encoding, format, or storage mechanism, BrightPlanet can harvest and normalize “unknown and hidden” content for full scope analytics…at the scale of the internet.
SAP
Saffron uses SAP Text Analysis to identify the people, places and things in unstructured text before ingesting unstructured sources into SaffronMemoryBase. Saffron’s ability to unify unstructured data sources – such as text documents, html, email, and unstructured text within structured data sources – with transactional and other traditionally structured data sources creates an exploitable, unified knowledge base to apply to decision support, prediction and of course sense making.
Value Added Resellers
IBODD
IBODD is an authorized reseller of Saffron’s Natural Intelligence Platform and provides solutions for Medicare and Medicaid data analysis. Intelligence Based Ontological Discovery & Dissemination (IBODD) is a systems integrator and services corporation dedicated to improving healthcare delivery by increasing awareness for patients, providing relevant information to the caregiver, and enabling more efficient use of funds for the States, the Federal Government, and insurance providers.
CrossInnovation
CrossInnovation improves the viability of companies through the strategic brokering of innovation between technology providers and technology recipients. CrossInnovation discovers and repurposes products and services from one industry to another to accelerate commercialization. We help develop and bring new and disruptive products and services to market through proven innovation management consultations and facilitate our engagements through the practice of expert collaboration. CrossInnovation utilizes Saffron’s unique technology to enhance strategic brokering by discovering associations within diverse information vital to successful innovation management. Saffron and CrossInnovation are collaborating on the democratization of business intelligence for front line operations in several industries. The two organizations are also collaborating on creating true customer personalization intelligence applications. No longer is the customer treated as one of many in a category. With Saffron’s Natural Intelligence, CrossInnovations is applying knowledge of the associations about “you” within customer relationship data, social network data, and more – to know preferences and influences based on “your” experiences. No longer will customers fall victim to traditional models that simply treat them as a category of many, or even a few.
Academic Partners
North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science
Saffron and North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science have joined forces in NCSU’s ePartner program. Through this collaborative effort Saffron is engaged with the North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science on a variety of interactions with this rich academic community including faculty and student interaction and engagement, joint project support and community development.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan Institute Center for Logistics and Technology
The Center for Logistics and Technology at UNC Chapel Hill helps clients build intelligent logistics processes that enable synchronized control over the extended global enterprise. Clients include companies in the aerospace, electronics transportation, automotive and defense industries, all complex industries that share a need to create intelligent visibility over the extended global supply chain. The Center for Logistics and Technology is working with Saffron’s Natural Intelligence Platform to apply Experience Management solutions for companies in the Aerospace, Manufacturing, Global Technology and Health Care industries, among others.
