Convera Corporation to Provide Business Overview and Outlook For Company Operations.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2001 Session Will Combine Onsite Meeting With Conference Call and Webcast January 11, 2001, 1:00 p.m., ET Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ), a leading provider of advanced technologies, products and solutions for unlocking the value in digital content, today announced that it will provide an overview of, and outlook for, its operations at a meeting for financial analysts and the investment community to be held in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Thursday, January 11th at 1:00 p.m. ET. The onsite meeting will be combined with a telephone conference call for analysts unable to attend the meeting in person. In addition, the proceedings will be webcast over the Internet so that individual investors, press and other interested parties may also participate. 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 executives Ron Whittier, chairman and chief executive officer, Patrick Condo, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , and Jim Buchanan, vice president and chief financial officer, will host the session. The meeting is being held in response to the significant interest expressed by the financial community since the announcement and subsequent close of the transaction that combined Excalibur Technologies Corporation with Intel's Interactive Media Services division to create Convera. Convera provides advanced digital content management technologies, products, services and solutions to enterprise customers and branded content owners that enable value to be extracted from high worth digital content via business critical intranet deployments, over the Internet, across set top boxes and in wireless applications. Convera builds on its unified technology platform to provide licensed products for deployment on customer premises, and to provide advanced service offerings that enable its technologies and products to be used in hosted applications and customized end-to-end solutions. Analysts interested in participating in the call should RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. to 703/760-4071 prior to the close of business on January 9, 2001. Press, individuals and other parties interested in viewing the live webcast should visit the investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. portion of the Convera website, www.convera.com, well in advance of 1:00 p.m. on January 11th and follow the onscreen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. instructions to ensure their equipment is configured properly. During the financial analyst briefing, Convera management will take questions submitted from the meeting floor, from conference call participants and from those viewing the webcast. Webcast participants can email their questions to the Convera representatives during the webcast by writing to invest@convera.com. Financial analysts wishing to participate in the conference call should call 212/346-6464 at approximately 12:50 p.m. ET on January 11th, and ask to be placed into the Convera telephone conference. For those unable to participate live, a playback of the webcast will be available on the Convera website for 90 days following the session, commencing at 6 p.m. on January 11th. To playback the webcast, simply go to Convera's web site, www.convera.com, and follow the instructions under the Investor Relations tab. About Convera Corporation 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, BG Technology, British Telecom, CareerBuilder.com, chicagotribune.com, CSC, Digital Island, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, FOXSPORTS.com, latimes.com, Loudeye, 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 (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 , Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies, QXL QXL Quixell (European online auction website) QXL Quark Express Element Library .com, Raytheon, RealNetworks, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, 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. |
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