Convera Announces Comprehensive OEM Deal with Leading Portal Company TopTier Software Inc.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2001 Convera RetrievalWare(R) to Provide Advanced Search Functionality for TopTier's Enterprise Unification Platform 4.0 Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ), a leading provider of advanced technologies, products and solutions for unlocking the value in digital content, today announced a technology licensing agreement with TopTier Software, a leading provider of Enterprise Information Portals and products that integrate information residing in a business' internal and external enterprise applications, databases, documents, Web sites and other data sources. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the terms of the agreement, TopTier has integrated Convera RetrievalWare(R), an advanced text content management system, with version 4.0 of TopTier's Enterprise Unification Platform(TM). By incorporating Convera RetrievalWare's intelligent and flexible search functionality, TopTier's portal solution delivers enhanced capabilities for retrieving and categorizing all enterprise data resources. "With the integration of Convera RetrievalWare, we can now provide our customers with intelligent search features, such as natural language and concept search capabilities," said Gil Perez Gil Perez was a Spanish soldier of the Filipino Guardia Civil who allegedly suddenly appeared in the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City on October 24, 1593. He was wearing the uniform of the guards of Palacio Del Gobernador in the Philippines, and claimed he had no idea how he had arrived , senior vice president, product marketing at TopTier Software. "RetrievalWare is a market-proven product that has the robustness and scalability our customers need, and the right APIs to allow us to easily integrate its functionality into the latest version of TopTier's Enterprise Unification Platform." TopTier created their Enterprise Unification Platform Version 4.0 to address the needs of corporate managers and employees worldwide who yearn for a collaborative marketplace to share real-time information between the enterprise, customers, vendors, and suppliers - not just within the production, customer relations and supply chain management divisions of a company. Version 4.0 is designed to allow users to move beyond the complexities and incompatibility of software applications, Web environments, documents and data, creating a powerful collaborative desktop under a simple personalized interface. More than 50 leading technology companies have integrated Convera's products into their own solutions, including Context Media, DataChannel, Digital Island, EOS Eos (ē`ŏs), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of dawn; daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. Every morning she arose early and preceded her brother Helios into the heavens. International, Fujitsu, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , IslandData, Lineup Technologies, Loudeye, Mohomine, 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 , Orbital Software, Parametric Technology, portalNATION, Preview Systems, Storage Technology, Wave Corp., Wordwave and Zilliant Inc. About TopTier Software TopTier Software, Inc., is a leading provider of Enterprise Information Portals and products that integrate information residing in a business's internal and external enterprise applications, databases, documents, Web sites and other data sources. TopTier's Enterprise Unification Platform software products are designed to enable a business's extended enterprise of customers, vendors, suppliers and employees to directly access, navigate and manipulate integrated information using an intuitive and effective portal interface. With TopTier's patented HyperRelational(TM) technology, users can access, interconnect, update, edit and delete information from multiple software applications and data sources through a simple Drag and Relate(TM) process. By doing so, TopTier's products enable organizations to create collaborative advantage for their enterprise by driving a real-time, frictionless flow of information between employees, partners and customers. Incorporated in 1996, TopTier Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. For more information about TopTier Software, call 408/360-1700 or visit www.toptier.com. About Convera RetrievalWare Convera RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system which allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate Intranets and extranets. Convera 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 processors and publishing systems) and groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Convera RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets. About Convera Convera, the new company formed when Excalibur Technologies combined with Intel's Interactive Media Services division, is a leading provider of content management innovations that unlock the value of digital content. Convera's advanced technologies, products, services and solutions empower content owners to extract value from their high-worth digital content--text, images and video--over the Internet, intranets, set top boxes and wireless devices. Convera serves more than 650 customers in 29 countries from its offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. Convera customers and partners include ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. , BG Technology, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , chicagotribune.com, CSC, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, FOXSPORTS.com, latimes.com, Microsoft, the National Basketball Association National Basketball Association (NBA) U.S. professional basketball league. It was formed in 1949 by the merger of two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded 1937) and the Basketball Association of America (1946). , NCR, Nortel Networks, QXL QXL Quixell (European online auction website) QXL Quark Express Element Library .com, Raytheon, RealNetworks, Reuters, Sony, Sun Microsystems, 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, Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Online and The World Bank. For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. The Convera logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera Corporation: Convera Corporation(TM), RetrievalWare(R), ScreeningRoom(R), WebExpress(TM) and their respective logos. 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, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation 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. |
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