Northern Light Group
| Formerly | Northern Light Technology, LLC |
|---|---|
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts,USA |
| Products | Web search(early) Enterprise search Research portals |
| Brands | SinglePoint |
Number of employees | 55+ |
| Website | northernlight |
Northern Light Group, LLCis an American technology company that specializes inenterprise searchtechnology,text analyticssolutions and research engines that combine traditionalsearch enginefunctions with access to non-web basedpublications.[1]The company provides custom, hostedturnkeysolutions for its clients using thesoftware as a service(SaaS) delivery model.
Northern Light markets its research portals under the trade name SinglePoint. Typical applications for SinglePoint research portals are inmarket research,competitive intelligence,product management,product development,and R&D. Northern Light's client base consists of global companies that typically have more than $10 billion in annual sales.
Northern Light has been selected for more than ten years in a row (as of 2023) as one of the "100 Companies That Matter In Knowledge Management" byKMWorldmagazine and as "50 Companies that Matter in AI" in 2023.[2]
History
[edit]The company is named after theclipper shipNorthern Light,which held the speed record for theSan FranciscotoBostonvoyage for nearly 150 years.[3]
From its founding in 1996 until January 2002, Northern Light operated aWeb search enginefor public use, originally on the domain nlsearch.com. It was regarded at the time as innovative in provision of search based on classification and inclusion of both public and proprietary information resources.[4][5]During this time period, Northern Light also developed private custom search engines for large corporate clients marketed under the trade name SinglePoint.
In 2002, Northern Light was acquired by Divine, Inc., an enterprise software company. Divine made 28 acquisitions, and Northern Light was the 17th. In 2003, an employee group bought the company from its parent and it is still employee-owned as of 2023 and SinglePoint is its main product line. According to the company's website, as of 2023 Northern Light has 250,000 users of its SinglePoint platform at its corporate clients.
References
[edit]- ^"Guiding Light".CIO Enterprise.Framingham, MA:CIO Communications, Inc.November 15, 1999. p. 16.ISSN0894-9301.
- ^"KMWorld Names Northern Light to its AI50: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management 2021".29 July 2021.
- ^northernlight.com: History
- ^O'Leary, Mick (1 February 2007)."Northern Light: better the second time around?".Information Today.[dead link]
- ^Rosenberg, Ronald (30 June 1999)."Godsend -- and a threat Northern Light gets praise from users, criticism from publishers threatened by research-engine service".Boston Globe.Archived fromthe originalon 9 April 2016.Retrieved13 July2013.