Convera's RetrievalWare Offered by IBM for Next Generation Workflow Solutions.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2002 RetrievalWare to be Offered as Search Technology for IBM's NICA NICA National Institute of Circus Arts NICA National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (Philippines) NICA National Ice Carving Association NICA National Interfaith Coalition on Aging NICA Netherlands-Indies Civil Administration Solution; Will Become a Search Engine for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere Portal Deployments Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) today announced that IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) is offering Convera's RetrievalWare(R) as the search and retrieval technology for its Network Interactive Content Access (NICA) publishing industry solution, enabling NICA's international customer base to perform faster, more accurate searches in their native language. NICA is an end-to-end digital asset management pre-press solution that provides newspaper and magazine publishers the ability to manage, archive, retrieve and reuse publishing data such as text, images, graphics and PDFs while offering integration with their production workflows, editorial creation front-end systems and industry specific business practices. NICA also provides the workflow management that allows the easy repurposing of publishing content either from its own repository or from an external enterprise content management repository. NICA is used by nearly twenty international newspaper publishing leaders, including The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio; The San Antonio Express-News The San Antonio Express-News is the daily newspaper of San Antonio, Texas. It is ranked as the third-largest daily newspaper in the state of Texas in terms of circulation, and is one of the leading news sources of South Texas, with offices in Austin, Brownsville, Laredo, and , Texas; Liberation in France; Suddeutscher Zeitung in Germany; and La Repubblica This article is about the Italian newspaper. For the Peruvian newspaper, see La República. La Repubblica (meaning: "The Republic") is the main[2] Italian daily general-interest newspaper. in Italy. Convera also announced that it is creating an extension to the IBM WebSphere Portal that will enable IBM customers to seamlessly integrate RetrievalWare as the search technology of choice into their portal deployments. This implementation gives IBM portal customers the unique capability to retrieve all data types (text, video, images, audio) through the IBM portal interface. The IBM WebSphere Portal allows companies to build their own custom portal See personal portal. Web site that serves the needs of employees, business partners and customers. Users can sign on to the portal and receive personalized Web pages providing access to the information, people, and applications they need. This personalized single point of access to all the necessary resources reduces the information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. , accelerates productivity, and increases use of one's Web site. About Convera's RetrievalWare(R) Convera's RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets. Convera's 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. , 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. , over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems), 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, document management systems and groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Convera's RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets. About Convera Convera is a leading provider of software products that access, organize and utilize enterprise data, whether text, video, audio or image files. Convera's advanced technologies and products enable organizations to optimize the value of all their content, establishing an information infrastructure that effortlessly scales to provide large numbers of users with fast, accurate, web-enabled access to all relevant information for a broad range of business critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, customer relationship management and many more. For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. This release contains comments about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans and prospects as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions, continued success in technological advances, continued demand for the Company's products and services, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking and Excalibur Technologies, Inc., will not be integrated successfully. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Excalibur's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. The Convera design logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), and Screening Room(R). |
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