San Jose Co Building DC Team
Another outside-the-Beltway tech firm has its eye on DC. San Jose, Calif.-basedZL Technologies CEO Kon Leong is working on building a small DC team to help sell its data management software to federal agencies. The company's federal work has included helping the National Archives and Records Administration with archiving. Agencies have to meet stringent NARA standards for meeting records-keeping obligations, satisfying White House directives, and fulfilling FOIA requests. We asked for data on how many tourists pointed at the Declaration of Independence and told their kids "Lincoln wrote that" but the stats weren't available as of press time. The company's software organizes unstructured data like email and social media communication to build archiving systems that can identify trends. It's attracted commercial customers like Wells Fargo, Toyota, Oracle, and Allstate.
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