CSC Chooses Excalibur to Provide Intelligent Search for Department of Defense Project.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000 Company Continues Focus on Providing Superior Search for the World's Most Valued Content 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 Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CSC) has selected Excalibur Technologies to provide the intelligent search functionality for the Department of Defense's Joint Computer Aided Logistics Support (JCALS JCALS Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition & Logistics Support JCALS Joint Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycle Support ) system. Under the agreement, CSC will install Excalibur RetrievalWare(R) on all JCALS database servers, providing robust searching across a reference library of classified and non-classified data for the armed forces. The $1 million contract continues Excalibur's dominance of government markets and providing intelligent search to those customers requiring the most advanced, accurate, scalable search systems for accessing valued content. The JCALS program facilitates a reference library to provide global catalog and search capability for published documents and technical manuals across the Department of Defense enterprise. The current search technology was found to be too limiting for the large reference library, which holds documents, technical manuals, drawings and other file types. CSC has licensed Excalibur RetrievalWare to be installed on all JCALS database servers. The JCALS Reference Library functionality will leverage the RetrievalWare application to provide full text search capability of all recognizable file formats. The JCALS Reference Library will also use XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. to store each file's metadata, which will be indexed by RetrievalWare for easy retrieval. "The Reference Library application has been an integral part of the JCALS infrastructure since the inception of the JCALS program, but the search functionality has always been limiting," said Jim Hayes, Senior Manager at CSC. "We decided to turn to the industry leader Excalibur to improve the search functionality of the system because RetrievalWare's features, platform support and pricing best matched our needs and those required to support the JCALS program." About Computer Sciences Corporation Computer Sciences Corporation helps clients in industry and government use information technology to achieve strategic and operational objectives. With 57,000 employees in more than 700 offices worldwide, the company tailors solutions from a broad suite of integrated service offerings, including e-business strategies and technologies; management and I/T I/T Inner Tank consulting; systems development and integration; application software; and I/T and business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in . Since its formation in 1959, CSC has been known for its flexibility in its relationships with clients. Through numerous agreements with hardware and software technology firms, the company is able to identify and manage solutions specifically tailored to each client's needs. CSC had revenues of $9.1 billion for the twelve months ended December 31, 1999. Its headquarters are in El Segundo, California
El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California on the Santa Monica Bay, incorporated on January 18, 1917. The population was 16,033 at the 2000 census. . For more information, visit the company's web site at www.csc.com. 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, BG Technology, 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. , 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), EFS(R), and APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability (R). Excalibur Internet Spider(TM), Excalibur Screening Room(TM), The Excalibur Edge(TM) partners program, and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. |
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