YONKERS, New York, January 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Starting today, professionals who need to know who and what will move markets can identify expert opinion holders and track their views over time. Through Jodange's breakthrough sentiment analysis technology, custom filters allow users to understand the impact opinion holders have on products, markets and companies.

Jodange will launch its first product - Top of Mind - at the Demo '08 conference in Palm Desert, CA on January 28th.

Developed by a team of Cornell University Computer Scientists led by world-renowned Professor Claire Cardie (PhD), Jodange Top of Mind is currently in evaluation with seven major global financial institutions. Recognizing the wealth of subjective information available via the Internet, Jodange empowers today's knowledge workers with the filters they need to access information in an easy, leveraged way. These filters, based on what opinion holders say over time, "allow companies to create competitive advantages and new business strategies by using all this new information to support quicker, more accurate decision making," says Jodange CEO Larry Levy.

Drawing on hundreds of thousands of documents tracking the Fortune 1000 and S&P 500, including everything from annual financial reports to transcripts of quarterly calls, CEO presentations, analyst reports and financial blogs, Jodange Top of Mind is an indispensable suite of opinion discovery tools for knowledge professionals.

Susan Feldman, IDC's Vice President for search and discovery technologies, noted that, "Top of Mind may quickly become an addictive Web site. Now we can track who said what when, and what influence that person has. The premier product will be valuable for a number of business roles. Hedge fund managers will want to find emerging trends and jump on them before they are widely known. Product managers will use it to track negative and positive opinions about their products. Political pollsters will use it to influence the influencers and marketers and PR professionals will rely on it for damage control. For the online public, this could become a quick route to finding out the most influential source on any topic on the Web. It could let us all cut to the chase quickly."

Initial funding has come from CEO Larry Levy (ex CEO of Semagix and Protege), Canadian software entrepreneur Dennis Bennie, and private investor, Denis O'Leary (previously CIO and head of Lab Morgan at JPMC).

Web site: http://www.jodange.com

Larry Levy of Jodange, +1-914-595-1381