Convera and Intelliseek Partner to Broaden Product Offerings; Partnership Brings Federated Search Capabilities to Convera; Indexing Technology to Intelliseek.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CINCINNATI & VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003 Leading enterprise search vendors Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) and Intelliseek today announced a partnership designed to extend distribution and bring greater functionality to their current product offerings. Under the agreement, Convera will add new federated search Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases and is an emerging feature of automated, Web-based library and information retrieval systems. It is also often referred to as a portal, as opposed to simply a Web-based search engine. capability to its product line by offering Intelliseek's Enterprise Search Server(TM) (ESS (1) (Electronic Switching System) A large-scale computer from Lucent used to route telephone calls in a telephone company office. The 5ESS is a Class 5 central office switch, and the 4ESS is a Class 4 tandem office switch. ) solution as an optional component of Convera's RetrievalWare(R) search and categorization platform. Intelliseek will become a reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. of Convera's RetrievalWare product to add indexing and search of internal content to Intelliseek's product line. "The Intelliseek relationship provides a valuable new dimension to our offering. With the addition of the federated search capability, we can now connect users through a single query to content that has been indexed by another search engine," 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. Intelliseek's ESS solution is pre-configured for over 1,000 different Internet and legacy search engines. Customers can purchase an optional Agent Development Kit featuring a point-and-click interface to create new adaptors for additional sources. "Convera brings to Intelliseek a significant distribution channel in government and other sectors, with more than 800 customers worldwide and a platform that can leverage federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. architecture to its best," said Intelliseek CEO Mahendra Vora. "Convera is well known for its multi-media information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. capabilities, complex document format search, high performance and scalable technology. It makes perfect sense for the two companies to work together." About Federated Search Federated or "brokered" search enables knowledge workers and researchers to augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: internal searches with results from other search engines, such as legacy search engines within the enterprise; public Internet search engines; and private subscription-based information services See Information Systems. . The content on proprietary sites often cannot be indexed in advance because of legal or practical issues, or because they are password-protected or pay-for-content sites. With federated search capability, users can simultaneously search internal and external content, regardless of what search engine indexed it. Results from all sources are conveniently and intelligently merged in a single result set. The benefit is more thorough research in less time, leading to improved productivity and better decision-making. About Convera Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search 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 800 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 About Intelliseek Intelliseek, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation). Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. , delivers cutting-edge technology and applications that capture, track and analyze enterprise information from thousands of disparate sources to deliver targeted and actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. business intelligence in real-time. Leading companies use Intelliseek's solutions to empower their key decision makers with relevant information needed for planning and decisions in their marketing, research and business development functions. For more information, contact Intelliseek at 1-877-999-SEEK, via e-mail at solutions@intelliseek.com or on the Web at www.intelliseek.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. The Intelliseek design logo and the following are trademarks of Intelliseek: Intelliseek and Enterprise Search Server. |
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