MindCite

MindCite

Type	Privately held
Industry	Semantic Web solutions for homeland security and commercial organizations
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel
Area served	Global
Key people	Avi Shoham (CEO), Oren Yosifon (CTO)
Products	Citer (text analysis), CiteLink (link analysis)
Website	www.mindcite.com

MindCite is a technology company that produces text analysis and link analysis software for homeland security and commercial organizations. The software solutions developed by MindCite use Semantic Web and Ontology driven technologies. MindCite software is used by intelligence organizations, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, related government organizations as well as banks and enterprises.

MindCite

Products

Among MindCite software products are – Citer and CiteLink.

Citer is text analysis software that enables organizations to manage and interact with massive amounts of information from open sources, public domain, internal data and external information sources in a coherent structure. Citer gathers, analyzes and retrieves large amounts of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data from targeting information sources.

CiteLink is link analysis software that allows organizations to uncover complex connections and elaborate relations hidden inside targeted information sources. CiteLink visualizes targeted information and links entities stored inside disparate databases and open information sources.

Technology

MindCite software applications use pure Semantic technology and are completely Ontology-driven. These technologies create a common language between computer processing and human intentions. MindCite's use of these technologies enables its software to uniquely analyze, retrieve and present dissimilar data in a common structure.

MindCite technology is compliant with W3C standards.

Solutions

MindCite software is the basis for the following solutions:

• Open source intelligence
• Actionable intelligence
• Risk analysis
• Market intelligence
• Competitive analysis

Management

Avi Shomam has served as CEO since early 2009. Avi previously acted as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Azimuth Technologies, a leading defense company based in Israel. Avi also earned his MBA at the University of Tel Aviv. ^[1]

Oren Yosifon has been the company's CTO since 2007 and has held other technology management positions since the company's inception in 2000. Oren has designed numerous open source intelligence solutions for intelligence organizations and law enforcement agencies around the world. His area of expertise is the application of Semantic Web technologies in text and link analysis processes.

MindCite’s Board of Directors includes Benjamin Kahn. Benjamin was honored by Time Magazine in October 2007 as a Hero of the Environment.^[2]

MindCite was founded in 2000^[3] by Uri Hanani and Shahaf Gal.

External links

• MindCite web site
• Jerusalem Post article about MindCite

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Benjmin Kahn - Heroes of the Environment - TIME - October 2007
3. ^ Motimop profile