Recommind (OpenText Recommind) is a subsidiary of OpenText Corporation that builds and sells software for electronic discovery, information governance,

enterprise search Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience. "Enterprise search" is used to describe the software of search information within an ente ...

and content categorization.

History

Recommind was founded in 2000 by Jan Puzicha, Thomas Hofmann and Derek Schueren.

Probabilistic latent semantic analysis Probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA), also known as probabilistic latent semantic indexing (PLSI, especially in information retrieval circles) is a statistical technique for the analysis of two-mode and co-occurrence data. In effect, one ca ...

(PLSA), a technique used for data analysis, is the underlying methodology for Recommind's software technology. Puzicha and Hofmann introduced and then patented PLSA in 1999, based on research they undertook at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. The company has been named as a leader in enterprise search by Forrester Research. Recommind was selected as a leader in the 2013

Gartner Gartner, Inc is a technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting as well as executive programs and conferences. Its client ...

Magic Quadrant for e-discovery. In 2013, the company was selected as among the world's top 10 most innovative companies in big data by Fast Company. In the same year, it secured an e-discovery review contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, Recommind was acquired by

OpenText OpenText Corporation (also written ''opentext'') is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software. OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company ...

for approximately $163 million

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* {{Official website, https://recommind.opentext.com/ Defunct software companies of the United States Companies based in San Francisco Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies established in 2000