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
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