• 2016 August 01

Company Description

Augments business decision-making by enhancing the usability of non-financial data through signals, cognitive visualization and analytics

DISCERN, founded in 2016, is the leader in Insights-as-a-Service for business decision-makers. Seven of the 10 largest fund managers in the United States are paying customers. Over $225T is allocated everyday using: 1) a fraction of the available helpful data; 2.) episodic, manual processes, and 3.) antiquated tools (spreadsheets). DISCERN's Insights applications address each of these challenges providing decision-makers more than a 100x improvement over existing processes. Insights-as-a-Service delivers over a 100x improvement in potential insights/person by leveraging a semantic graph structure, signal processing and cognitive visualization technology. Business decision-makers gain a sustainable information advantage and expedited time from ‘awareness to informed decision.’ DISCERN delivers personalized insights through data, signals and visuals. Data-as-a-service are synthesized streams of supply, demand, transaction and valuation data delivered into customer tools in any standard electronic format. Synthesized data services include: Energy, Consumer Retail and Real Estate. Signals-as-a-Service are personalized notification of events that matter to each user. Analytics-as-a-Service leverages Panorama and Scenarios. Panorama is, an always up-to-date searchable gallery of business visuals that can be used for publishing and personalization of signals. Scenarios, is an always up-to-date analytic framework that synthesizes a landscape of past, present and future perspectives at the most micro to the most macro level. The DISCERN Insights-as-a-Service platform is the only solution that enables both interactive and passive financial insight discovery. DISCERN intends on scaling its platform by publishing its data model to data providers.