Our History

• 1993 – 1996 - The Megaputer "pre-historic" period. The Artificial Intelligence research groups from the Moscow State University and Bauman Technical University develop new ground-breaking techniques in machine learning. Megaputer Intelligence Ltd. is formed in Moscow, Russia to commercialize these techniques and the first versions of the PolyAnalyst software are developed.
• 1997 – Megaputer Intelligence Inc. is started in Bloomington, IN, in a close association with the Indiana University. PolyAnalyst 3.5 for MS Windows NT is released. Megaputer wins its first customer.
• 1998 – Two Fortune 100 companies purchase PolyAnalyst 3.5 to address challenges in the analysis of their marketing and engineering data. Megaputer signs an agreement with Microsystems Ltd., gaining exclusive distribution rights for TextAnalyst 1.5.
• 2000 – Megaputer opens its new headquarters in Bloomington, IN and expands its Moscow R&D Center. PolyAnalyst version 4 is released. Megaputer Intelligence is recognized as one of six Emerging Technology Companies of the year by Gartner Group.
• 2001 – PolyAnalyst is selected as one of Top 5 Picks software tool by the editors of InfoWorld. Megaputer is serving five Fortune 100 companies.
• 2002 – TextAnalyst 2.1 is released and is selected as one of top 12 tools for Competitive Intelligence by Fuld & Company. Megaputer wins its first US Federal Government customer.
• 2003 – Prentice Hall incorporates PolyAnalyst 4.5 as the practical analytical software tool in two best selling student textbooks: "Decision Support Systems in the 21st Century" and "Data Warehousing, Mining, and Visualization". The textbooks are adopted for graduate courses at almost 400 universities.
• 2004 – Megaputer partners with Thomson Healthcare to develop healthcare fraud detection algorithms for healthcare insurance industry and acquires the rights for the resulting analytical algorithms. A new collection of text analysis tools facilitates the application of PolyAnalyst 4.6 in survey analysis and incident report analysis tasks. Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board license PolyAnalyst.
• 2005 – A family of dedicated algorithms for fraud detection in health insurance is incorporated in PolyAnalyst as a new MediCop module. The first major healthcare insurance company becomes a Megaputer customer. Megaputer opens a second R&D Center in Cheboxary, Russia.
• 2006 – Megaputer expands its headquarters in Bloomington, IN and opens sales offices in Buffalo, NY and Washington, DC. PolyAnalyst version 5 is implemented in production environment in a call center of a Fortune 100 company to perform real time categorization of telephone call narratives. PolyAnalyst wins a predictive modeling competition for identifying insurance claims errors set up by the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
• 2007 – A major breakthrough: PolyAnalyst version 6 is released. The highly scalable and secure client/server system implements all features from the customers' wish list and allows Megaputer to serve enterprise level projects. Megaputer wins contracts to supply text mining systems to Patient Safety Centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. A large medical system implements new PolyAnalyst dashboards as the main decision support tool for the organization. Megaputer partners with Service+, a dominant Russian supplier of analytical software for retailers, to jointly promote PolyAnalyst 6 in retail industry.