Recommind Enhances Platform with Deep Federated Search Framework

Innovative MindServer 5.1 Release Lets Users Explore Federated Content Using Industry's Most Relevant and Secure Search Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, 2007– Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for law firms and enterprises, today announced the availability of the MindServer™ 5.1 platform, which combines robust navigation and grouping controls over external content with  multi-layered security to deliver a deep and powerful federated search framework.  This latest version of Recommind’s flagship MindServer enterprise search platform brings the full potential of federated content to organizations with the high relevancy, intuitive navigation and strong security Recommind customers have enjoyed for years.

The MindServer 5.1 release expands Recommind’s enterprise search functionality in several innovative ways, most notably in the deep federated search capabilities that allow users to search multiple internal and external systems from a single, tightly integrated search interface.  In addition to finding information from within an enterprise’s myriad applications, databases, file servers and other repositories, MindServer 5.1  delivers external results to a single UI via out of the box integrations with a number of online publishers as well as public sources such as EDGAR Online, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Federal Trade Commission, Association of Corporate Counsel, UK government departments, the European Union, London Stock Exchange, Wikipedia, Google, the BBC and many others.  Robust search management controls support restrictions across secure content, enabling only users with specific access rights to perform searches on certain external content (e.g. on password protected subscription sites or pay per search sites). 

“Knowledge workers spend too much time looking for information in multiple repositories, leaving them with little time to integrate and analyze what they find,” said Sue Feldman, VP for Search and Digital Marketplace Technologies at IDC.  “That's why enterprises tell us that one of their top problems is creating a single access point to all their information—both external and internal.  By embedding federated information access within a collaborative environment that finds not just information, but experts on a topic as well, Recommind has addressed this problem.”

To give users greater navigability of content, MindServer 5.1 provides automatic phrase extraction functionality, which identifies relevant phrases within indexed content and provides smart-filtering capabilities to narrow results based on such phrases.  MindServer 5.1’s unique incremental crawl functionality allows particularly time-sensitive information to be quickly – and automatically – updated within a user’s query results. Another unique feature of MindServer 5.1 is its ability to extend information navigation to email attachments and archived content (e.g. in an email archive); MindServer 5.1’s Quick View feature brings the user directly to the relevant individual attachment and allows the user to navigate back through the entire email thread from the relevant section.  By ensuring that users are looking at the most relevant and up-to-date information possible, this groundbreaking release allows Recommind’s customers to enjoy an additional, increasingly important competitive advantage in today’s information-centric economy.

“The ability to allow our users to enter a single search term to query multiple resources was a key functionality that we were looking for when selecting a search product,” said Jane Bradbury, Knowledge Management Director, Field Fisher Waterhouse.  “We’re looking forward to exploring the advanced functionality of MindServer 5.1, which should allow us to tailor federated sites offered to groups of users and thereby offer a more bespoke search tool that will be directly linked to the individual’s area of interest or practice.”

Other new features in the MindServer 5.1 release include:

• Source-level access control for both external and internal content based on user, role or other principals, which can hide or show sources and results according to a user’s access rights
• Enhanced search history management to monitor usage of both external and internal sources
• Source grouping, source selection, and source hierarchy, allowing external content to be shown in the same taxonomy that is used internally
• Paging navigation, which provides users with the ability to page from one quick view result to the next quick view result without having to return to the results list.  This saves users time as they scan through results
• User preferences enhancements include the ability to store search preferences, selection of default search settings on a per user basis rather than corporate wide, and the ability to set email alerts
• Faster performance, significantly faster query speed and document fetching speed improvements of 20-30 percent.

“As a leading search and categorization vendor, our customers depend on Recommind to continuously push the envelope of innovation with new features that make information access easier, more relevant and more actionable,” said Bob Tennant, Recommind’s CEO.  “With MindServer 5.1, Recommind has again shown our fierce commitment to lead the market by providing the industry’s most secure, scalable and accurate search framework for federated content.”

MindServer 5.1 is available immediately with pricing upon request.

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.