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Smart Technologies: History, Art, Technology & Companies

Smart Technologies (styled as SMART Technologies) is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and wholly owned by Foxconn. Founded in 1987, SMART is best known as the developer of interactive whiteboards branded as the "Smart Board" (styled as SMART Board) widely used in education and business.

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Smart Technologies topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art, Technology and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Smart Technologies.

Related topics
12
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
14
Extracted relationships
35
Concept neighborhoods
10
Bridge connections
14

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 7 topics
Overview · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1987; 39 years ago (1987)
Industry
Computer technology Computer software
Area served
Worldwide
Founder
David Martin Nancy Knowlton
Key people
Nicholas Svensson (CEO)
Net income
US$24.1 million (FY2015)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Smart Technologies connects Entity context

The extracted context around Smart Technologies shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Smart Technologies → Class, David Martin, Digital Vision Touch, District Courts, DViT, Filed, Illinois, In, IPO, July, Later, March, Nancy Knowlton, NASDAQ, New York, New Zealand-based NextWindow, On July, Smart, Smart Board, Smart's IPO Another extracted example is Smart Technologies → Worldwide. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Smart Technologies

Top relations

related to history · 23
Smart Technologies → Class, David Martin, Digital Vision Touch, District Courts, DViT, Filed, Illinois, In, IPO, July, Later, March, Nancy Knowlton, NASDAQ, New York, New Zealand-based NextWindow, On July, Smart, Smart Board, Smart's IPO
Area served · 1
Smart Technologies → Worldwide
Founded · 1
Smart Technologies → 1987; 39 years ago (1987)
Founder · 1
Smart Technologies → David Martin Nancy Knowlton
Industry · 1
Smart Technologies → Computer technology Computer software
Key people · 1
Smart Technologies → Nicholas Svensson (CEO)
Net income · 1
Smart Technologies → US$24.1 million (FY2015)
Number of employees · 1
Smart Technologies → 795
Parent · 1
Smart Technologies → Foxconn
Products · 1
Smart Technologies → Interactive whiteboards

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

smart board technologies company interactive foxconn million founded 1987 whiteboards styled martin knowlton filed 2010 branded technology david nancy employees

Smart Technologies relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 35 structured relationships around Smart Technologies. Examples in this analysis include Smart Technologies → Area served → Worldwide and Smart Technologies → Founded → 1987; 39 years ago (1987). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Smart TechnologiesArea servedWorldwide1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesFounded1987; 39 years ago (1987)1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesFounderDavid Martin Nancy Knowlton1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesIndustryComputer technology Computer software1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesKey peopleNicholas Svensson (CEO)1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesNet incomeUS$24.1 million (FY2015)1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesNumber of employees7951.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesParentFoxconn1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesProductsInteractive whiteboards1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesRevenueUS$492.9 million (FY2015)1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesTypeUnlimited liability corporation1.00infobox
Smart TechnologiesWebsitesmarttech.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Smart Technologies bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Board, Technologies and Interactive. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Smart Technologies
    • Board
    • Technologies
    • Interactive
    • Foxconn
    • Whiteboards
    • Million
    • David
    • Nancy
    • Employees
    • July
    • Restructuring
    • Would
  • smart technologies
    • Million
    • Board
    • Technologies
    • Interactive
    • Foxconn
    • Whiteboards
    • David
    • Nancy
    • Wholly
    • Corporate
    • Employees
    • Founded
  • foxconn
    • Technologies
    • Million
    • David
    • Headquartered
    • Nancy
    • Owned
    • Wholly
    • Employees
    • Founded
    • Knowlton
    • Martin
    • Styled
  • interactive whiteboards
    • Whiteboards
    • Whiteboard
    • Smart
    • David
    • Nancy
    • Year
    • Employees
    • Knowlton
    • Martin
    • Styled
    • Technology
    • Million
  • calgary
    • Alberta
    • Canada
    • Canadian
    • Headquartered
    • Owned
    • Wholly
    • Styled
    • Foxconn
    • Company
    • Technologies
    • Smart
  • alberta
    • Calgary
    • Canada
    • Canadian
    • Headquartered
    • Owned
    • Wholly
    • Styled
    • Foxconn
    • Company
    • Technologies
    • Smart
  • canada
    • Canadian
    • Headquartered
    • Owned
    • Wholly
    • Styled
    • Foxconn
    • Company
    • Technologies
    • Smart
  • fiscal year
    • Class
    • Complaints
    • Later
    • Whiteboard
    • Filed
    • Whiteboards
    • Interactive
    • Smart
    • Board

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Smart Technologies, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Smart Technologies with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Smart Technologies — History · splits 7 ⟂ 8
Smart Technologies — Overview · splits 9 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Smart Technologies

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples35
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Smart Technologies to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art, Technology & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Smart Technologies · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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