• Open Text Buys Up Content Analysis Startup Nstein Technologies For $34 Million

    Monday, February 22nd, 2010

    Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More


    Enterprise content management juggernaut Open Text has bought content analysis startup Nstein Technologies for $34 million. Nstein’s Text Mining Engine helps businesses centralize, understand and manage content through semantic and text analysis.

    For example, Nstein powers the backend of The Financial Times’ semantic search engine, called Newssift, that indexes about 4,000 business news sources, from online newspapers and blogs to news portals and research sites.

    Open Text’s digital media solution help its customers manage rich-media content, so Nstein’s technology should boost Open Text’s existing offerings. Last year, Open Text, which is a publicly traded company bought up 3-D interface innovator Vizible.

    Website: nstein.com
    Launch Date: 2000
    IPO: TSX:EIN

    Nstein Technologies (TSX: EIN) provides next generation content management solutions that help information-rich enterprises centralize, understand and manage vast amounts of content. At the heart of Nstein’s solutions, semantic analysis allows information to be easily found and packaged together – so it can be connected to the right internal and external audiences. Nstein’s Content Management and Web Publishing solutions both rely on Nstein’s patented Text Mining Engine for semantic & text analysis. This unlocks content’s value and allows clients...

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    Company: OpenText
    Website: opentext.com
    Launch Date: October 6, 1991
    IPO: February 2, 1996, NASDAQ:OTEX

    Open Text Corporation (Open Text) is an independent company providing enterprise content management (ECM) software solutions. The Company’s Open Text ECM Suite brings together the content management capabilities needed to manage various types of enterprise content, including business documents, vital records, Web content, digital assets (images, audio and video), e-mail, forms and reports, while aiming to foster team collaboration with project and community workspaces, forums, blogs, wikis, and real-time instant messaging and collaboration. The Open Text ECM Suite also...

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