Convera Partners with Fujitsu Consulting to Deliver Knowledge Management System to UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002 14,000 FCO FCO n abbr (BRIT) (= Foreign and Commonwealth Office) → Min. de AA. EE FCO n abbr (Brit) (= Foreign and Commonwealth Office) → Employees in 180 Countries to Gain Fast, Accurate Access to Controlled Information 1. Information conveyed to an adversary in a deception operation to evoke desired appreciations. 2. Information and indicators deliberately conveyed or denied to foreign targets to evoke invalid official estimates that result in foreign official actions advantageous to US , Country Profiles and Government Reports Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) today announced that it has partnered with Fujitsu Consulting Fujitsu Consulting is a consulting company based in Edison, New Jersey. It is one of the 500 subsidiaries of Fujitsu, a Japanese based company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. UK to deliver a new knowledge management system to the United Kingdom's Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), the government entity responsible for advising British travellers, issuing UK visas from overseas, and promoting trade and investment opportunities. The new system, named FOCUS, will enable 14,000 FCO employees in 180 countries to access controlled information and deliver better and faster information to its customers. In addition, FCO will be able to share information with other government bodies through the Government Secure Internet. The FCO began the implementation of FOCUS in June 2002, and intends to start the rollout of the full system in early 2003. Fujitsu is the project's lead consultant and systems integrator, using its own components from Fujitsu's Knowledge Management Framework and working with selected third-party technology suppliers. These include Convera, which is providing the search and retrieval engine retrieval engine n. A search engine. ; Documentum, which is providing the content management platform; and GammaSite, which has provided the analysis and taxonomy tools. The FCO's work relies upon fast and accurate information. Whether it's a strike in the Middle East or a tropical hurricane, the FCO's desk officers must quickly gather and disseminate the news. "Officers responsible for various countries or regions must collate col·late tr.v. col·lat·ed, col·lat·ing, col·lates 1. To examine and compare carefully in order to note points of disagreement. 2. To assemble in proper numerical or logical sequence. 3. reports from governments, news wires and overseas staff, which are then shared with other officers around the world," said Pat Condo, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Convera. "Convera's RetrievalWare(R) search and retrieval technology provides a way for FCO users to quickly search through the massive archive of information and find relevant, accurate documents." 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 Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. repositories. Advanced search capabilities 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(R) 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 750 customers in over 29 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. 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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