Convera's RetrievalWare Named 'Hot Pick' by Seybold; IBM, Microsoft, FileNet and Documentum Content Repositories Searched by RetrievalWare.

Business Editors

Seybold San Francisco 2003

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2003

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR), a leading provider of search and categorization software for enterprises and government agencies, today announced the company's RetrievalWare 8 search technology has been selected as a "Hot Pick" by the editors of The

Seybold Report. RetrievalWare's new discovery and dynamic classification capabilities will be showcased at next week's Seybold San Francisco 2003 Conference.

"Convera's RetrievalWare 8 is the first system we have seen that allows users to mix and match taxonomies in their search results," said the Seybold Report Editors. "Its powerful dynamic classification facility shows the payback for the effort and expense of categorizing content."

Two executives will be speaking about RetrievalWare during Seybold San Francisco at the Gilbane Content Management Conference on Wednesday:

-- Convera's Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Mark Myers,

will discuss how a large enterprise using multiple content

management systems from IBM, Microsoft, FileNet or Documentum

can be securely accessed through one single search technology.

Myers will describe the ways in which multi-faceted search and

categorization can offer real-time content sharing across

text, video, image and audio data. Myers will speak during the

Content Integration and Information Integration program on

Wednesday, September 10th from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

(Moscone Center West, 3006).

-- Jim Kane, a Convera customer and Global Portal Project Manager

at Unisys, will address categorization and taxonomy strategies

for migrating content on Wednesday, September 10th from 10:30

a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Moscone Center West, 3006).

Reporters and analysts interested in learning more about real-time content sharing or new categorization strategies are welcome to arrange an interview with Myers or Kane by contacting Anna Van Lier at Convera (703-761-5274, [e-mail]). Demonstrations of RetrievalWare's dynamic classification and discovery features are also available.

RetrievalWare steps beyond traditional search by allowing users to classify information in real-time and within multiple contexts. Useful for large newspapers and diversified publishing companies, RetrievalWare is highly scalable. With dynamic classification, RetrievalWare organizes search results quickly into one or more selectable classification views. Users can add an additional axis of classification in an easily understood table format, displaying information from completely disparate database locations. Using dynamic classification, RetrievalWare also increases the effectiveness of elaborate Intranets by intelligently mapping relationships between information, leveraging massive multimedia data repositories to their full potential.

Dynamic classification also enables the "discovery" of hidden information by identifying previously unknown relationships among entities, such as people, places and objects, in unstructured text. A sophisticated approach to search, Convera's RetrievalWare optimizes mission-critical search and categorization by mapping unique inter-relationships between information and truly discovering knowledge. RetrievalWare is particularly helpful to users who need to identify essential information but do not know precisely what they might be trying to identify.

As global business becomes more complex, identifying previously unknown relationships within enterprise information is paramount. RetrievalWare's modular cartridge architecture is tailored for vertical industries, unique domains of interest, and over 45 different languages.

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 45 languages. More than 800 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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