Clifford Chance Chooses Excalibur for Intranet Search Solution.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000 Global Law Firm to Use Excalibur RetrievalWare(R) to Share Knowledge Throughout Its International Offices Excalibur Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), a leading provider of intelligent search solutions for intranet portals and Internet/eCommerce applications, today announced that international law firm Clifford Chance Clifford Chance LLP is the largest law firm in the world, both by number of lawyers and revenue, and a component of the UK's "Magic Circle" of leading law firms. In recent years, it has universally come to be accepted as the world's leading global law firm. has chosen Excalibur RetrievalWare as the intelligent search product for its global intranet. The Clifford Chance intranet is accessible by some 6500 lawyers and others worldwide. The implementation of a powerful multi-lingual search engine was driven by the objective of achieving easier retrieval of valuable information. Clifford Chance wanted a powerful search engine which would allow fast, secure and accurate access for its users to its vast international knowledge base. "Our need is for a secure, scalable search solution that incorporates multi-lingual capabilities and can be integrated into all our content," said Simon James Simon James refers to these people:
Excalibur RetrievalWare is a high-performance knowledge retrieval system that 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 (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , 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 relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. tables, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and and publishing systems) in over 20 languages and in groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern matching 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 Clifford Chance Clifford Chance is the first fully-integrated global law firm with 29 offices in 21 countries. The firm was created through the January 1, 2000 merger of three international law firms: Clifford Chance, Rogers & Wells and Punder, Volhard, Weber & Axster. The new firm provides integrated global services to the world's leading financial institutions and multinational businesses. Unrivalled in its international resources, the firm has 3,100 legal advisers and annual revenues of over $1bn. Its practice is organized around six global practice areas: finance, capital markets, corporate (including M&A), litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. and dispute resolution, real estate and tax, pensions and employment law. For further information please contact either Simon James or Tom Rose at Clifford Chance on 020 7600 1000. About Excalibur Technologies Corporation Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:EXCA) is a pioneer of innovative Knowledge Retrieval software solutions that transform information into knowledge. Excalibur empowers people and enables organisations to quickly analyse, index, catalogue, browse, access, search, retrieve and more easily share all enterprise knowledge assets, be they paper, text, images or video. Contact Excalibur in North America at 800-788-7758 or 703-761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, 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), Excalibur Visual RetrievalWare(R), EFS EFS Encrypted File System (Microsoft Windows 2000) EFS Event Free Survival (survival rates in clinical trials) EFS Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Sweden) (R), and APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability (R). Excalibur Internet Spider(TM), Excalibur Video Analysis Engine(TM), Excalibur Screening Room(TM), The Excalibur Edge(TM) partners program, and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. All other names or marks may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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