What Analytic Technologies does

Analytic Technologies is a privately held, founder-owned software publishing company headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, that develops and distributes free analytical software for social scientists. Founded by Steve Borgatti and Roberta Chase and operated as a two-person team (Borgatti leads product development; Chase handles operations), the company's product portfolio includes UCINET (Windows-based social network analysis bundled with NetDraw visualization), ANTHROPAC (cultural domain analysis covering freelists, pilesorts, triads, paired comparisons, ratings, and consensus analysis), E-Net (ego-network analysis), KeyPlayer (identification of key nodes via Remove and Observe procedures), and Krackplot (graph drawing). The underlying technology is built on specialized algorithms — centrality measures, fragmentation analysis, consensus analysis, and ego-network analysis — developed by field-leading academics including Lin Freeman and Martin Everett; the platform targets Windows and DOS environments and supports networks of up to two million nodes.

The company's go-to-market is fully product-led and non-commercial. All products are offered at no cost, with no paid tiers, licensing fees, or registration requirements; the prior ordering and purchase pages have been replaced by a message directing users to download directly from the website and dedicated Google Sites product pages. Distribution is direct via the company website and Google Sites, supplemented by a community channel (UCINET user's group, originally on Yahoo Groups, now on Groups.io), a corporate blog (analytictech.blogspot.com), and educational content (Hanneman's nettext tutorial, Ph.D. course syllabi, reference manuals). The only monetized layer is paid in-person workshops delivered at client locations by Boston College Ph.D. students trained by co-founder Borgatti, with pricing scaled to duration and participant count.

The customer base consists of academic researchers, graduate students, and organizational researchers in the social sciences. Co-founder Steve Borgatti holds a faculty role at Boston College and teaches social network analysis at multiple universities including the University of Kentucky LINKS Center, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Essex, embedding the product directly into graduate training pipelines. The company has no external investors, no parent company, no institutional ownership, and no disclosed revenue figures; the legal entity operates from a P.O. Box under Kentucky jurisdiction.

Name

Analytic Technologies

Legal name

Analytic Technologies

Website

https://analytictech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Analytic Technologies is a two-person Lexington, Kentucky-based software publisher that develops and distributes free social network analysis and cultural domain analysis tools (UCINET, ANTHROPAC, NetDraw, E-Net, KeyPlayer) serving academic researchers, graduate students, and organizational researchers in the social sciences.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lexington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Free Software Distribution: All software products (UCINET, NetDraw, Anthropac, E-Net, KeyPlayer) are provided completely free of charge. No revenue is generated from software sales. The company appears to operate on a non-commercial basis serving the academic and research community.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Analytic Technologies develops and distributes free software for social network analysis and cultural domain analysis, including UCINET (Windows-based network analysis tool), ANTHROPAC (cultural domain analysis), NetDraw (network visualization), E-Net (ego-network analysis), and KeyPlayer (key node identification). All software products are provided at no cost to academic and research users, with paid on-site training workshops available to institutions.

Product overview

Analytic Technologies offers a suite of free social network analysis and cultural domain analysis software products. The core portfolio includes UCINET (a Windows package for social network analysis bundled with NetDraw visualization), ANTHROPAC (a DOS program for cultural domain analysis), NetDraw (standalone network visualization), E-Net (ego-network analysis), KeyPlayer (identifying key nodes in networks), and Krackplot (network visualization). All products are free. The primary products are UCINET and ANTHROPAC, with other tools complementing the analysis workflow by providing visualization, ego-network analysis, and key player identification capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UCINET: Free Windows software package for social network analysis, co-developed by Lin Freeman, Martin Everett and Steve Borgatti. Currently being updated.
• ANTHROPAC
• NetDraw
• E-Net
• KeyPlayer

Products and services

• UCINET A free Windows software package for the analysis of social network data. Supports networks up to 2 million nodes (practical up to ~10,000 nodes depending on sparsity). Includes NetDraw network visualization tool bundled. Developed by Lin Freeman, Martin Everett and Steve Borgatti.
• ANTHROPAC A free menu-driven DOS/Windows program for collecting and analyzing data on cultural domains. Supports freelists, pilesorts, triads, paired comparisons, ratings, consensus analysis, factor analysis, and multidimensional scaling. Includes 150-page Reference Manual, 60-page User's Guide, and 40-page Methods Guide.
• NetDraw A free Windows software package for visualizing social networks. Reads UCINET datasets and can import Pajek files. Provides 2-D graphics for network visualization.
• E-Net A free Windows software tool for analyzing ego network data, focused on the networks surrounding individual respondents.
• KeyPlayer A free program for identifying optimal sets of key nodes in a network, with Remove (Fragment, Distance) and Observe (Reach) procedures for crippling networks by removal or selecting nodes for surveillance/influence.
• Krackplot A free network visualization software by David Krackhardt for graph drawing.
• On-site Training Workshops Paid on-site training workshops conducted at client locations covering Analytic Technologies software and underlying social network analysis concepts. Workshops are led by trained Ph.D. students and include both beginners' and advanced tracks.

Quantifiable outcome

• UCINET supports networks up to 2 million nodes, with practical analysis capability up to ~10,000 nodes depending on sparsity
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Boston College Ph.D. Students (Rich DeJordy and Dan Halgin)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvanced Ph.D. students at Boston College trained by Steve Borgatti conduct training workshops on Analytic Technologies software and underlying social network analysis concepts. They represent the company in delivering workshops at various locations.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• igraph: Open-source network analysis library available in R, Python, and C. Offers the same centrality, clustering, and ego-network capabilities as UCINET in a modern, multi-language stack used across academia.
• NetworkX: Python library for the study of complex networks, widely adopted in academic and data-science workflows. Represents the programmatic successor to UCINET and is increasingly the default SNA tool for new researchers.

Direct peers

• Pajek: Long-standing Windows-based social network analysis tool by Batagelj and Mrvar. Already integrated via UCINET's KeyPlayer bundling, Pajek serves the same academic SNA community with overlapping functionality in network analysis and visualization.
• Gephi: Open-source desktop tool for network visualization and analysis. Competes directly with NetDraw and UCINET on the visualization and SNA workflow that academic researchers use, but is community-developed on a modern Java stack.
• Tulip: Open-source information visualization framework with a strong focus on relational data and network visualization. Serves academic researchers performing the same SNA tasks as UCINET and NetDraw users.
• visone: Academic software for the analysis and visualization of social networks developed at ETH Zurich. Targets the same research community as UCINET with an emphasis on visual analytics and social science applications.
• GUESS (Graph Exploration System): Visualization and exploration tool for graph-based data originating from academic research. Provides interactive network visualization capabilities overlapping with NetDraw's functionality.
• NodeXL: Social network analysis and visualization tool integrated into Microsoft Excel. Targets the same academic and organizational researcher segment as UCINET, with a particular focus on social media network data.
• Cytoscape: Open-source platform for network visualization and analysis, originally developed for biological networks but widely used in social network research. Competes with UCINET on the same graph-analysis-and-visualization workflow.

Others

• CASOS (Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems): Academic center producing related SNA tools (ORA, AutoMap) used by the same organizational-network research community that forms the secondary customer segment of Analytic Technologies.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/analytic-technologies

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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