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{{Short description|US software company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| foundation = [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]], [[Colorado]]<br />(2000)|
| location_city = 1860 Blake Street, 7th Floor<br />[[Denver, Colorado|Denver]], [[Colorado]]
| location_country = USA<br />3F Mod Marche Building, 2-8-3 Akasaka, [[Minato, Tokyo|Minato-ku]], [[Tokyo]] 107-0052
| industry = [[legal]], [[computer software]] [[e-discovery]] 
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = John Barr, CEO<br />Lewis Visscher, CFO<br />John Tredennick, Founder and Evangelist<br />
| num_employees = 170
| parent = [[OpenText]]
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.catalystsecure.com/}}
}}

'''Catalyst Repository Systems''' is a privately held company based in [[Denver, Colorado]], US, which develops, hosts and supports [[cloud-based]] software for the management of [[Electronic discovery|electronic legal discovery]]. Founded in 2000, the company’s main product is Insight Discovery. Catalyst has offices and [[data center]]s throughout the United States and an office and data center in Tokyo, Japan.

Catalyst technology integrates functionality that covers the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), a ubiquitous diagram that represents a conceptual view of the stages involved in the e-discovery process.

Catalyst follows a [[SOC 2]] security framework.

== History ==
In 1998, the Denver-based law firm Holland & Hart developed an internal electronic document repository,<ref name="Voorhees">{{cite news|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=900005522294&My_Day_With_John|title=My Day With John|last=Voorhees|first=Mark|date=15 March 2001|newspaper=AmLaw Tech}}</ref><ref name="Olgeirson">{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1996/11/11/story3.html|title=Law Firm Tries New Tack|last=Olgeirson|first=Ian|date=10 November 1996|newspaper=Denver Business Journal}}</ref> which allowed the firm’s lawyers to access and share legal documents and litigation files electronically between offices.<ref name="Voorhees" /> Development was led by John Tredennick, a partner in the firm.<ref name="Voorhees" />

In 2000, the firm created a separate business to further develop and commercialize the document repository,<ref name="Fortune">{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2011/05/11/smallbusiness/accidental_entrepreneurs_inner_city_100.fortune/|title=Meet the Accidental Entrepreneurs|last=Rouen|first=Ethan|date=13 May 2011|newspaper=Fortune|access-date=2013-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517083654/https://money.cnn.com/2011/05/11/smallbusiness/accidental_entrepreneurs_inner_city_100.fortune/#|archive-date=2011-05-17|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Denver Post">{{cite news|title=The New Thing: Interest in 'Extranets'|last=Colden|first=Anne|date=19 March 2000|newspaper=The Denver Post}}</ref> and formed CaseShare Systems Inc.<ref name="Voorhees" /><ref name="Denver Post" /> Holland & Hart assumed majority ownership of the company, while Tredennick and two other employees owned a minority interest.<ref name="Voorhees" /><ref name="Denver Post" />

In 2005, Tredennick purchased the firm's ownership stake in the business, with backing from the [[investment capital]] firm Catalyst Investors. In 2006, CaseShare changed its name to Catalyst Repository Systems to reflect its main product, Catalyst CR.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} Catalyst CR was the first grid-enabled document repository for discovery.

In 2007, Catalyst launched its multi-language capabilities and in 2010, Catalyst established its Catalyst Asia division, with an office and data center in Tokyo.

In 2012, FTV Capital purchased a majority stake in Catalyst from Catalyst Investors; Catalyst Investors retained a minority stake.<ref name="Primack">{{cite news|url=http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/10/private-equity-deals-107/|title=Private Equity Deals|last=Primack|first=Dan|date=10 April 2012|newspaper=CNN Money}}</ref> Also in 2012, Catalyst launched Catalyst Insight, the first platform to be built around an [[XML database]].

In 2013, Catalyst introduced Insight Predict, the first commercially available [[predictive coding]] product based on a continuous active learning protocol.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Catalyst Unveils Advanced Predictive Coding Tool Insight Predict|url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/catalyst-unveils-advanced-predictive-coding-201328054.html|access-date=2021-01-29|website=finance.yahoo.com|date=29 January 2013 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2017, Catalyst launched Insight Discovery, a multi-matter management repository for corporate legal departments.

In 2017, Catalyst also became a full EDRM solution with the addition of legal hold and collection technology by acquiring TotalDiscovery, a Seattle-based legal hold and data collection software company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://complexdiscovery.com/catalyst-acquires-totaldiscovery-adding-legal-hold-and-collection-technology-to-its-e-discovery-platform/ |title=Catalyst Acquires TotalDiscovery |website=www.complexdiscovery.com|date=10 April 2018 |language=en |access-date=2021-01-14 }}</ref> Also in 2017, Catalyst launched Insight Business Intelligence, a cross-matter reporting and analytics system.

In 2019, Catalyst acquired by OpenText.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OpenText Buys Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc. - Media Releases|url=https://www.arnnet.com.au/mediareleases/33754/opentext-buys-catalyst-repository-systems-inc/|access-date=2021-01-29|website=ARN}}</ref>

== Technology ==
Catalyst has developed several commercial products:

''Insight Discovery''  is a document repository management program which can handle modern complex litigation involving tens of millions of electronic documents and multiple cases or matters. It allows documents to be stored and tagged once and then used in multiple legal matters.<ref name="Burney">{{cite news|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202585805786&Product_Review_Catalyst_Insight|title=Product Review: Catalyst Insight|last=Burney|first=Brett|date=28 January 2013|newspaper=Law Technology News}}</ref> Catalyst technology can process, index and search documents involving 280 languages, particularly Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.<ref>Logan, Debra (13 May 2011). "Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software". Gartner.</ref>

''Insight Predict'' is the company’s proprietary predictive coding tool. It was introduced in January 2013 at LegalTech New York.<ref name="Doherty">{{cite news|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202587264643|title=What's New From LegalTech New York|last=Doherty|first=Sean|date=6 February 2013|newspaper=Law Technology News}}</ref><ref name="Predictive">{{cite news|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202585833218&LegalTech_to_Debut_Novel_34Predictive_Coding34_Strategies|title=LegalTech to Debut Novel 'Predictive Coding' Strategies|last=Koblentz|first=Evan|date=28 January 2013|newspaper=Law Technology News}}</ref> It is used in legal matters to analyze large document populations and identify the documents most likely to be important, thus enabling legal teams to reduce the number of documents they must review.

''Insight Legal Hold and Collect'' is the company’s automated legal hold and data preservation product. It is used to automate legal hold processes, remotely collect and preserve data, search, process and promote potentially relevant documents for review in Insight Discovery.

''Insight Business Intelligence'' is Catalyst’s analytics platform and dashboard that [[Aggregate (data warehouse)|aggregates]] and analyzes data across legal matters for cross-matter reporting.

''Fast Track'' is Catalyst’s automated site setup and [[data loading]] system.

== Services ==

Catalyst offers professional services that support corporations’ use of Catalyst technology. Services include search and analysis, [[data management]], document review and [[managed services]]. Catalyst also offers an array of language services, including machine and human translation and management and staffing of multi-language cases.

== References ==

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== External links ==
* [http://www.catalystsecure.com '''Catalyst''' official website]

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