Gilbane Research Report - Digital Magazine Editions - (Page 31) Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Best Practice Cases Vendor Description Vendor Name Nstein Technologies History and Background Nstein began in early 2000 in Quebec City, QC, as a partnership between GESPRO Technologies and NET CREATION, two software companies. The original focus was on artificial intelligence-based language processing applications. The company was listed on the Montreal Stock Exchange in the same year and transferred to the Canadian Venture Exchange (now TSX Venture Exchange) in 2001. Nstein developed its patented Linguistic DNA technology, staked out territory in the emerging computer-aided indexing (CAI) field, and amassed agreements with many publishers and content licensors, including UPI, John Wiley, VNU, Time Inc., ProQuest, Getty Images, and Corbis. In 2004, Nstein began major expansion with a string of acquisitions: KMtechnologies, a vendor of collaboration and document management software; Alis Technologies, a provider of automated content translation and localization solutions; and Valsar, a systems integrator. The next phase of Nstein’s expansion came at the end of 2006, when it acquired Toulouse-based Eurocortex, a vendor of content management systems for media and publishing whose customers include Agence France Presse, Hachette, and Le Monde. The combination of Eurocortex’s Ntelligent Content Management (NCM), Valsar, a strategic consulting group, and Nstein’s text mining (CAI) technology constitutes the core of its current offering to the publishing industry in North America and Europe. Major customer deployments since the merger have included Canoe.ca (Quebecor Media), Canadian Press, Gesca Digital, News International (News Corp.), and Conde Nast. And even more recently, as of February 2008, Nstein acquired the UK leader in picture management, Picdar. Based in St Albans, the company's solutions for picture management now enable Nstein to broaden its content management offering for the media and publishing industry. Vendor Type Content Infrastructure Software ©2008 Gilbane Group, Inc. 31 http://gilbane.com http://Canoe.ca http://gilbane.com
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