Best Practices for Organizing Enterprise Information To Be Presented By Convera Taxonomy Experts And Analyst; April Seminars to Be Held in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2004

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR), a leading provider of search and categorization software for enterprises and government agencies, today announced Gartner analyst Rita Knox and other taxonomy experts will present taxonomy best practices during three April seminars titled, "Using Taxonomies to Organize Enterprise Information."

The seminars will be held in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco during the week of April 19th. Four taxonomy experts will describe how effective information organization helps identify hidden relationships among data and provides return on information investments by increasing employee productivity and customer satisfaction.

"Firms in every industry want to know how to use taxonomies, share them, build them, where to get them, what the benefits are and what will happen if they aren't fully utilized," said Rita Knox, Research Director and Vice President, Gartner Research, Inc.

Efficient organization of information that employees need to manage their daily responsibilities is a universal issue for both government agencies and businesses. Developing taxonomies and classifications to match an organization's data assets is the first step in information management and helps ensure agencies and businesses match diverse amounts of data with understandable categories that employees can access and query.

During the complimentary sessions, the four taxonomy experts will explain how enterprises are using taxonomies to yield larger value on existing information investments:

Rita Knox, Gartner Analyst

Research Director and Vice President at Gartner Research, Inc., Knox will describe business benefits, challenges and best practices for effective enterprise taxonomy development.

Dr. Claude Vogel, Chief Technology Officer, Convera

A recognized authority on taxonomies and search technology, Vogel will compare alternative approaches to organizing and accessing information through taxonomy deployment.

Josh Powers, Principal Ontologist, Convera

Powers, an expert in building previous ontologies used at Oracle and Semio, will provide step-by-step examples of taxonomy and classification generation.

Tom Reamy, Taxonomy Consulting Practice President, The KAPS Group

The founder of the KAPS Group, taxonomy and knowledge architecture consultants, Reamy will use real world examples to discuss the role of taxonomies for general knowledge.

"Convera's seminar series is designed to provide concrete and useful details about building effective taxonomies," said Dr. Claude Vogel, Chief Technology Officer, Convera. "Ideal for CIOs, IT Directors, knowledge management professionals, information scientists, taxonomists and librarians, the seminars will help clarify the mystery behind taxonomies and highlight their widespread applicability for organizing any type of enterprise information assets."

The three April seminars will be held at the following locations:

Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday, April 20th (Hyatt Regency, 151 East Wacker Drive)

Los Angeles, California - Wednesday, April 21st (W Hotel Westwood, 930 Hilgard Avenue)

San Francisco, California - Thursday, April 22nd (Westin San Francisco Airport, 1 Old Bayshore Highway)

Convera invites anyone who might be interested in attending to call: 1.800.788.7758 or visit http://www.convera.com/ts/ Each company represented at a seminar will receive one complimentary seat at Convera's Taxonomy Developers Certification Workshop (a $2,400 value).

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 50 languages. More than 900 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

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