Recommind Delivers Projects & Expertise Application for the MindServer 4.2 Platform

Application Drives High ROI by Generating New Inferences and Insight from Existing Information Systems

Berkeley, CA - August 22, 2005– Recommind, a leading enterprise search and categorization company, today announced MindServer Projects & Expertise, an application for its next-generation MindServer 4.2 platform. Using powerful inference capabilities built into Recommind’s search-based application integration framework, Projects & Expertise delivers a 360-degree view of an organization’s projects and people by integrating information from multiple corporate systems. An integrated view of documents, projects, and people facilitates enterprise-wide collaboration and leverages a company’s knowledge assets. 

Projects & Expertise captures inter-relationships between otherwise-unrelated documents and files in a wide range of personnel, project, and document systems. When users enter a query, the actual search term provides context for the result and determines which relationships are relevant to the user’s immediate information need. Projects & Expertise can further utilize these inter-relationships to infer previously undiscovered characteristics of projects and people. Searching is as simple as using traditional consumer-based search engines. For the first time, information residing in multiple unrelated systems can be brought to bear on specific inquiries and deliver greater value to the enterprise.

“With personnel and operations often located around the globe, it is extremely difficult for employees to precisely identify and access important corporate knowledge assets and intellectual resources,” said Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind. “The Projects & Expertise application helps enterprises overcome time and distance barriers by connecting related expertise, individuals, documents, and project information to focus on strategic customer engagements, development tasks, and other mission-critical projects without having to invest in, support, and refresh yet another data warehouse or complex integration project.”

Because the application automatically extracts information from back-end enterprise systems – such as customer relationship management (CRM), project and portfolio management (PPM), email, contact, time and billing, intranet, customer support databases, document management, and other systems – it is always current. The Projects & Expertise application provides a secure, centralized access point for employees to quickly find and drill down into all related information about specific business alliances and channel partners, consulting projects, customers and sales, technical, market, product, and financial experts, account and support teams, and other expertise within the company. This eliminates the need for organizations to create additional data repositories and manually manage internal information flow.

Recommind’s MindServer 4.2 platform is built on the company’s patented Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) algorithm, which powers complex searches with precision to deliver highly accurate, complete results. The platform is an enterprise-class solution that scales to serve millions of users and search terabytes of data.  Recommind’s customers include Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and firms in professional services, financial, pharmaceutical, retail, healthcare, and media. The MindServer 4.2 platform and Projects & Expertise are immediately available.

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, Chicago, Atlanta, London, and Bonn, Germany.

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