The team at First Retail is proud to announce that leading analyst firm Gartner has included First Retail in its 2012 list of Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence. The report notes that "First Retail represents the crowded market of content analytics, but it was its machine learning that caught our attention."

We'd like to thank you for your interest and support since we founded First Retail two years ago. We are now turning our technology into products. We look forward to realizing our vision where all big data, structured and unstructured, can made available to your downstream analytic and transactional applications.

Best regards
Anne, Gam, Simon, and To

• More information on the Gartner Cool Vendor 2012 announcement.