Artesia Technologies and Convera to Offer Integrated Solution for Rich Media Management.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001

Discovery Communications First Adopter of Joint Solution Incorporating Convera's Screening Room and Artesia's TEAMS Digital Asset Management

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Artesia Technologies and Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR) today jointly announced an agreement to integrate Convera's Screening Room(r) video content management software with Artesia's TEAMS digital asset management solution.

The combination of these respective enterprise-class technologies will offer organizations a seamless solution for capturing, indexing, managing and repurposing virtually all types of rich media for use within a wide variety of environments, including broadcast, streaming media and corporate portal applications.

The initiative has been undertaken in response to interest from customers, such as first adopter Discovery Communications, that are seeking proven best-in-breed technologies for the management and distribution of rich media across multiple channels.

"Organizations are struggling with the exponential growth in the amount of video footage that needs to be managed and they are particularly challenged by the need to efficiently repurpose this content online," said Derek Gascon, vice president, strategy and planning, Convera. "Screening Room and TEAMS together address this need with a seamless, end-to-end solution offering comprehensive support for the management and distribution of virtually all types of rich media thus allowing organizations to maximize the value of their digital assets. Digital asset management is a key component to providing our customers with the best solution for managing their video content and we are pleased to be working with Artesia Technologies."

Screening Room provides an integrated solution for capturing, indexing, searching, storyboarding and repurposing video content, while TEAMS offers an enterprise-class digital asset management system with significant functionality that is essential for managing the rich media value chain.

With the integration of the two solutions, Screening Room may be used to ingest video programming directly into a central content repository managed by the TEAMS software so that these assets and other types of rich media may be managed simultaneously. As a result, the production and distribution of dynamic content for both traditional and new media channels can be completed faster and more efficiently.

The integrated solution is already being deployed with Discovery Communications so that a single, web-based application may be used to manage and access all of the company's rich media content. Users may take advantage of specific applications available within TEAMS, including its Clip Identifier and Play Decision List features, to automate the conversion of assets to various formats and to create rough video edits from their desktop.

By storing and managing all of the company's assets in a single repository, Discovery also simplifies the challenges involved in managing the underlying XML-based metadata and creates a common standard for integrating with a variety of approaches to digital rights management.

"The convergence of broadcast and the Internet is driving the need for technology that can meet the demanding standards of both of these worlds," said Mike McDowell, vice president of business development for Artesia Technologies. "Convera's Screening Room is an excellent solution for organizations that need to capture and index vast amounts of video programming, while TEAMS continues to provide the most complete digital asset management solution for the enterprise. Our partnership with Convera will ensure that our customers get a fully integrated solution addressing their business-critical objectives that also fulfills their existing production requirements."

About Artesia Technologies

Headquartered in Washington, DC's technology corridor, Artesia Technologies(tm) is the leading provider of digital asset management solutions. Organizations seeking to best manage, leverage and distribute rich media select Artesia's TEAMS(tm) to drive their e-business and cross media applications. TEAMS is an open and scalable solution that is uniquely positioned to connect creative minds with their markets, partners, and peers.

Artesia's blue ribbon customers include thought leaders as impressive and diverse as Random House, The Washington Post, General Motors, FeedRoom.com and many more. TEAMS, the company's flagship solution, was recently recognized by the editors of the Seybold Report on Internet Publishing as one of their "Hot Picks" and it was also a recipient of the prestigious Crossroads 2000 A-List Award within the Excellence in Execution category.

In addition, Artesia Technologies was named by ComputerWorld magazine as one of its "Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000." For additional information on Artesia Technologies, please visit our website at www.artesia.com.

About Convera

Convera, the new company formed when Excalibur Technologies combined with Intel's Interactive Media Services division, is a leading provider of content management solutions that unlock the value of digital content.

Convera's advanced technologies, products, services and solutions empower content owners to extract value from their high-worth digital content-text, images and video-over the Internet, intranets, set top boxes and wireless devices.

Convera serves nearly 700 customers in 29 countries from its offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

Artesia and TEAMS are trademarks of Artesia Technologies. All other names are the property of their respective trademark holders.

The following are worldwide trademarks of Convera Corporation or its subsidiary Convera Technologies, Inc.: Convera(tm), RetrievalWare(r), ScreeningRoom(r), WebExpress(tm) and their respective logos.

This release contains comments about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans and prospects as well as assumptions about future events.

The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions, continued success in technological advances, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies, Inc., will not be integrated successfully.

Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Excalibur's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements.