Asian Development Bank Selects Excalibur to Provide Backbone for New Global Knowledge Management System.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Excalibur RetrievalWare(R) to Power ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) A low-speed serial bus for connecting keyboards, mice and other input devices on Apple IIgs and Macintosh computers. Starting with the iMac in 1998, the ADB was superseded by USB. Intranet Portal, Providing Intelligent Search Capability to 2,000 Employees in 18 Countries Excalibur Technologies (Nasdaq: EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), a leading provider of content management solutions for indexing and retrieving text, video and images on the Internet and intranets, today announced that the Asian Development Bank Asian Development Bank A financial_institution established in 1966 to reduce poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank is headquartered in Manila, Philippines and consists of 61 member countries. (ADB) has selected Excalibur to provide the intelligent "portal" search required for its new global knowledge management system. Under the terms of the agreement, the ADB will use Excalibur RetrievalWare(R) as the founding technology to provide its 2,000 employees, based in 18 countries, with faster, more accurate access to mission-critical information, no matter where it may reside. In addition, the ADB has licensed the Excalibur RetrievalWare WebExpress product, an intelligent Internet search solution for premium web sites that are dependent on quick, accurate and reliable search, to upgrade the search capability on its public Web site, www.adb.org. The ADB, a multilateral development finance institution, was founded to promote the social and economic progress of the Asia-Pacific region. Because of its far-reaching presence, the ADB began investigating a global knowledge management solution as part of an overall IT system upgrade. Information at the ADB currently is scattered, stored in different formats and in different places. A knowledge management system will allow ADB employees to find what they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. quickly, and will alleviate many frustrations. Core to the system, Excalibur RetrievalWare is the first piece of the knowledge management puzzle being fitted. "When we decided to transform our current document management system, we knew we would need a superior search product to use as the foundation," said Bill Peterson William E. "Bill" Peterson (born 1920; died August 5, 1993) was an American football coach. His career included head coaching stops at Florida State, Rice University and with the Houston Oilers. , senior external relations officer at the Asian Development Bank. "After looking at several search solutions, we decided to use Excalibur RetrievalWare because of its error-tolerant pattern recognition, support for unlimited file types and industry reputation." When complete, the ADB's knowledge management system will link all of the ADB's resident and regional missions and representative offices to the information critical to their jobs. With headquarters in Manila, Philippines, the Philippines, The (fĭl`əpēnz'), officially Republic of the Philippines, republic (2005 est. pop. 87,857,000), 115,830 sq mi (300,000 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Malay Archipelago off the SE Asia mainland. ADB has resident missions - the equivalent to commercial bank branches - in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nepal, Pakistan, People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. , Uzbekistan and Vietnam, and has plans to open a resident mission in Mongolia. The ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. also operates a regional mission in Port Vila, Vanuatu and representative offices in Frankfurt, Tokyo and Washington, DC. About Excalibur RetrievalWare Excalibur RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system which allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets. Excalibur RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , documents, relational database tables, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems) and groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Excalibur RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets. About The Asian Development Bank Founded in 1966 by 31 member governments and headquartered in Manila, Philippines, the Asian Development Bank extends loans and equity investments to its developing member countries (DMCs) for their economic and social development, provides technical assistance for the planning and execution of development projects and programs and for advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal , promotes and facilitates investment of public and private capital for development, and responds to requests for assistance in coordinating development policies and plans of its DMCs. The ADB's primary goal is to fight poverty. The ADB continues to carry out activities to promote economic growth, develop human resources, improve the status of women and protect the environment. Its other key development objectives, such as law and policy reform, regional cooperation, private-sector development, and social development, also contribute significantly to this main goal. About Excalibur Technologies Corporation Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: EXCA) is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video. Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and eCommerce sites. Excalibur customers and partners include ABC News, AT&T, Akamai/INTERVU, BG Technology, Bloomberg, The Boeing Company, British Telecom, CareerBuilder.com, DataChannel, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. , ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. , iXL, Johnson Space Center, Loudeye, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies Corp., QXL QXL Quixell (European online auction website) QXL Quark Express Element Library .com, Raytheon, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , United Airlines, Watson Wyatt and The World Bank. On May 1, 2000, Excalibur and Intel's Interactive Media Services Division announced an agreement to merge and form a new company. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review and shareholder approval, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2000. Plans for the new company focus on achieving a leading role in web-based interactive media services. Contact Excalibur at 800-788-7758 or 703-761-3700, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com. The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur Technologies Corp.(R), RetrievalWare(R), WebExpress(R) and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. |
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