Recommind Selected As Finalist For 2008 Codie Award

Recommind's Mindserver Enterprise Search Platform Chosen from more than 1000 Nominations for Premier Industry Recognition

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2008 – Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that the company’s  MindServer™ Enterprise Search product has been selected as a finalist in the category of  “Best Enterprise Search Engine” for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)’s 23rd Annual Codie Awards.  The coveted “Best Enterprise Search Engine” Codie Award recognizes MindServer Enterprise Search as a solution that best brings relevant information to users through the use of sophisticated indexing and retrieval tools within corporate networks, intranets or portals. 

“Recommind is honored that MindServer Enterprise Search is being recognized by SIIA as a leading enterprise search solution” said Robert Tennant, CEO at Recommind.  “MindServer Enterprise Search is powered by sophisticated, patented machine learning techniques that automatically deliver highly relevant results with maximum context, making information useful and actionable to knowledge workers.  And as a conceptual search technology, our system works the way our customers do – by allowing users to find the information they seek whether or not they get the keywords exactly right.  We are proud of the technology we have built and very pleased that the industry is validating our hard work and innovation.”

Recommind’s MindServer platform is a comprehensive software suite that integrates an enterprise’s numerous applications and information repositories, enabling fast, easy access to relevant information.  The platform substantially reduces the time and costs involved in searching, while improving the quality of work delivered to the end client.  Using patented search technology, MindServer dramatically improves access to a wide variety of information across large, distributed organizations and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and ‘actionability’ of the information.  Recommind’s enterprise search technology specifically utilizes powerful concept-based search capabilities to connect relevant information in document management, records management, portal and e-mail systems and myriad other applications and databases with the users that need it. 

"Competition was tough this year and that makes selection as a CODiE Finalist a real achievement," said Ken Wash, SIIA president. "Recommind, like all of the companies on this year’s list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition."

Established in 1986, the Codie Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries. Through a unique combination of journalist and peer review, the Codie Awards recognize 68 categories of outstanding products and services. This year’s 340 finalists represent an impressive array of technology and business excellence and success. Over 250 judges from the trade press, consulting, educators, IT specialists and other knowledgeable, but neutral, experts have reviewed all of the products entered. The Finalists were chosen from more than 1,000 nominations submitted by more than 600 companies.   

About SIIA
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net.

About Recommind
Recommind’s enterprise search and categorization platform automatically organizes, manages, and distributes large volumes of information from multiple sources. With faster access to the right information, organizations can save time, enhance the quality of work product, increase the value of information assets, and improve competitiveness and profits. Recommind customers include Bertelsmann, BMW, Cleary Gottlieb, Davies Arnold Cooper, Novartis, Lewis Silkin, Shearman & Sterling and the Australian Government.  Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, London, and Bonn, Germany.

For more information, email info@recommind.com, or go to www.recommind.com.