Recommind: The Next Generation eDiscovery Company

Recommind is a private company that develops and sells software used for content categorization, enterprise search, information governance and electronic discovery. It was established by Jan Puzicha, Derek Schueren and Bob Tennant in 2000. Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Recommind’s software technology is based on the data analysis technique called Context Optimized Relevance Engine or CORE, which is proprietary to Recommind. Based on the research that Puzicha and Hoffman undertook while they were studying at the University of California, Berkeley, CORE was patented to them in 1999.

The Forrester Research named Recommind as the leading company in the enterprise search industry. Recommind was also chosen as one of the leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for e-discovery in 2013. Fast Company also included Recommind in its 2013 list of the Ten Most Innovative Companies in Big Data. The Securities and Exchange Commission also granted Recommind an e-discovery review contract in 2013.

Back in his years at University of California, Berkeley, Puzicha has spent years in researching multimedia information retrieval, text mining and machine learning. Back then, Puzicha anticipated that in the future, the existing information retrieval technology cannot handle the amount of information that organizations would process every day. Puzicha was motivated to continue his research and discover a breakthrough solution.

After the approval of its patent application for the CORE, Puzicha partnered with Schueren and Tennant and formally established Recommind as a business entity. This team developed applications which were on CORE technology to address many of the most compelling eDiscovery, search, classification and compliance problems faced by many large companies today.

Being a leader in eDiscovery, records management, compliance, regulatory and data retention, Recommind has been active in teaming up with other industry players in looking for solutions to meet the information risk management issues that confront various industry groups today. Recommind demonstrated this commitment by joining groups and alliances that promote this cause: Search and XML Schema Working Groups (where Recommind is co-chairman), Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) group, and Big Data Coalition (where Recommind sits as member). Recommind is also actively working with Association of Corporate Counsel, Sedona Conference, ILTA, the DESI Workshop, Women in eDiscovery, ARMA, AIIM and many others.