Convera Helps Translucis' Innovative 'Digital Media Networks' Effectively Market to Young British Nightclub and Bar Patrons.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2003

Convera's Screen Room(R) Enables Timely and Accurate Search of

Translucis' Video Repository

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR) today announced that the UK's Translucis, a subsidiary of world-leading premium beverage company Diageo and pioneer of a new entertainment medium called 'digital media networks', is using Convera's Screening Room(R) to enable efficient and accurate search over its growing repository of advertising and video clips.

Screening Room enables Translucis' staff to rapidly retrieve video footage and build outlet-specific play lists that can be downloaded via satellite to over 250 bars and nightclubs across the UK, reaching an audience of over one million people per week.

Translucis' 'digital media networks' broadcast to plasma screens in bars and clubs, offering a mix of visually exciting entertainment and compelling advertising targeted at 18-24 year olds.

Screening Room enables Translucis to more effectively manage vast quantities of data by enabling it to be stored in just one location.

By playing a vital role in Translucis' 'Media Delivery Solution', Screening Room enables the scheduling team to view the footage and tailor it for distribution while sales staff can view media from the same location and create their own show reels for streaming media presentations. This enables a faster and more efficient method of working.

Madeleine Buchanan, Operations Director for Translucis commented, "Convera's track record in providing scalable yet cost effective image retrieval solutions, coupled with their excellent professional services support, were key elements of our selection criteria. We needed a search and retrieval tool that was affordable, but more importantly could enable users to query the metadata, retrieve clips and build their own show reels with relative ease."

"The implementation of Screening Room within Translucis' digital repository represents a very exciting application. Convera has created a powerful content management service that is highly scalable and efficient enough to deal with the most complex digital content,"said Graham Jackson, Business Development Manager at Convera.

About Translucis

Backed by Diageo, the world-leading premium drinks business, the company's vision is to be the most effective way to connect with consumers when they are out and are expecting to spend money. For additional information visit www.translucis.com.

-- Translucis is pioneering a new entertainment medium called digital media networks that broadcasts to plasma screens in bars and clubs, offering a mix of visually exciting entertainment and compelling advertising that appeals to 18-24 year olds.

-- Media is programmed centrally and delivered by satellite.

-- Translucis' prime network, Magnetic, the channel for young adults in stylish bars and clubs is broadcast in over 250 outlets across the UK, including independents and chains, reaching an audience of over one million young adults per week.

-- Advertisers that have used Magnetic include lifestyle brands such as 20th Century Fox, Lynx, Glamour Magazine, Reebok, Revlon, 02 and Sony, plus drinks brands such as Bacardi Breezer, Budweiser, Pernod, Red Square, Smirnoff and Stella Artois.

-- Translucis also offers services to retailers, designing, implementing and managing branded in-store TV networks.

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 [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

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