Convera's Search Technology Strengthens Merrill Corporation's New Litigation Software.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ST. PAUL St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn. and VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003 OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Deal Enables Merrill to Embed Convera's RetrievalWare(R) in Merrill Discovery Navigator(TM) Convera (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 : CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) and Merrill Corporation today announced that Convera's RetrievalWare search and categorization technology has been embedded in Merrill Discovery Navigator, Merrill's new web-based 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. software system that provides customized, anytime, anywhere, multiple-user access to discovery databases. RetrievalWare provides users with the greatest available precision when searching for mission-critical documents. Merrill Discovery Navigator is a unique litigation software system that anticipates users' needs. The culmination of 15 years of litigation database research and development, Merrill Discovery Navigator provides automated, role-based views that streamline navigation through volumes of complex litigation data. Searching, reviewing, document cataloging and production are simplified as a result of the functional user interface and workflow features of Merrill Discovery Navigator. Among the reasons cited by Merrill Corporation as to why they chose Convera's search technology: -- Most precise searching on scanned documents - RetrievalWare provides users with the expanded ability to do pattern, concept and Boolean searches on OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. text. This allows users to more precisely define how they want their searches to be executed, thereby increasing accuracy and relevancy of the search results. -- Streamlined process for repetitive searching - Users can quickly save and re-run defined searches using templates that can store key fields with search values already populated. -- Enhanced folder searching - RetrievalWare allows users to easily analyze and locate key documents by constructing searches that compare and contrast the documents contained in various folders. This feature will be added to Merrill Discovery Navigator(TM) in a future version release. "The ability to quickly locate and review discovery documents is of increased importance with large cases," remarked Al McNee, President of Merrill's Document Management Services business. "The use of the RetrievalWare search engine in Merrill Discovery Navigator provides a best-in-breed search engine, enabling our clients to locate relevant documents in a large collection." About Merrill Corporation Merrill Corporation (www.merrillcorp.com) is a diversified communications and document services company applying advanced information systems and intranet/Internet technology to provide a wide range of services to its financial, legal and corporate clients. Merrill's services integrate traditional composition, imaging and printing services with online document management, distribution and collaborative solutions. This integrated approach helps streamline the preparation and distribution of business-to-business communication materials. Merrill Corporation serves its domestic clients through 47 offices in 36 cities throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Its international clients are served through the client service centers in London, Paris and Frankfurt, as well as a joint venture with Quebecor World in Canada and other affiliate relationships in Europe, Asia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Australia. Merrill's Document Management Services (DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. ) offers single-source document management solutions to the legal industry. Professionally staffed and equipped Document Service Centers provide clients with comprehensive, on-site services tailored to their specifications -- from basic copying, mailroom management and equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
DMS also provides large-scale litigation copying and document imaging and coding on a transactional basis. DMS' litigation support software business delivers sophisticated technology solutions to enhance speed, efficiency and accuracy of the litigation process. Clients include law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
About Convera's RetrievalWare RetrievalWare is a high-performance multimedia, cross- and multi-lingual search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets. 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, video, image and audio 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 that can be used independently or interactively to enable the highest levels of accuracy include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching, and query-by-example. RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with thousands of users, documents, images, and/or multiple media assets. About Convera Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval 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 info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements 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 and trends; continued success in technological advances; possible disruption in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera'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. |
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