Convera Announces Screening Room 3.0 For Secure Video Search; FBI and Department of Homeland Security License Screening Room 3.0.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2004 Convera Corporation Convera was formed in December 2000 by the merger of Intel's Interactive Services division and Excalibur Technologies Corporation. Until 2007, Convera's primary focus was the enterprise search market through its flagship product, RetrievalWare, which is widely used within the secure (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 ), a leading provider of search and categorization software for enterprises and government agencies, today announced the launch of Screening Room 3.0(R), video search technology with new enterprise security features. Used extensively within government and commercial enterprises for searching video libraries, Screening Room 3.0 is an optional component to Convera's RetrievalWare enterprise search platform, which also searches text and audio data. Highly scalable for increasingly large video archives, Screening Room provides tools to manage and repurpose To change the media format; for example, to go from print to online. rich media assets. Used in conjunction with RetrievalWare, Screening Room delivers real-time capture, encoding See encode. , analysis and cataloguing of video, in addition to closed caption text, text generated by speech-to-text converters and other metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. over corporate intranets/extranets. Screening Room allows searching of vast multimedia repositories, and eliminates the need for analysts, archivists and general users to watch or play an entire video when only a small clip is needed by leading the searcher directly to the relevant portion of the video. New security features to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. users and control the viewing and editing of sensitive video material are included within Screening Room 3.0. To build the new Screening Room 3.0 enterprise security features, Convera leveraged security features from its RetrievalWare product, which has been used to search sensitive government information for years. "Multimedia search will grow in importance to enterprises, particularly for managing and accessing valuable marketing materials, or training materials," said Susan Feldman, Research Vice President for Content Technologies, IDC. "The addition of enterprise security features to Convera's Screening Room product enhances its usefulness to both government and commercial enterprises." Recent government organizations that have purchased the Screening Room option of RetrievalWare include the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States . Worldwide over 250 government agencies, including over 100 intelligence and law enforcement operations, have adopted RetrievalWare as the standard discovery platform for security applications, intelligence gathering and evidence analysis. 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 900 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals See corporate portal. , 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 forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , 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. The Convera design logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), and Screening Room(R). The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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