Convera to Power Knowledge Management Project for Newspaper Association of America; RetrievalWare to Facilitate Information Gathering and Distribution at NAA.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR), a leading provider of advanced technologies, products and solutions for managing multimedia digital content, today announced that the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has selected Convera's RetrievalWare(R) software as the technology backbone for NAA's Technology Group Knowledge Management Project.

RetrievalWare's intelligent search capabilities will enable NAA staff to collect, index and share data on a broad range of technical issues affecting NAA's 2,000-plus member companies. These companies account for nearly 90 percent of the daily newspaper circulation in the United States.

NAA receives numerous requests from members seeking information about a variety of technical issues. While NAA boasts a wide range of subject matter experts and a wealth of information on myriad technology issues of interest to its members, these knowledge assets are dispersed across multiple document repositories, printed materials, LISTSERVE forums, electronic bulletin boards and other data centers.

NAA will use RetrievalWare to automatically index thousands of scanned documents, text files, images and multimedia files. Staff will then use RetrievalWare's search interface to quickly locate relevant information regardless of file type or location and share that information with constituents as needed.

"In addition to managing text files, we plan to integrate hundreds of multimedia files gathered from the technology conferences, presentations and training programs we offer," said Tom Croteau, NAA's senior vice president of technology.

"Critical enterprise information is increasingly being created and stored in multimedia file formats," said Ben Plummer, senior vice president, marketing, Convera. "Convera's products and services enable businesses to access and share these complex information assets with the click of a mouse."

For example, NAA might receive a call from a member looking for information on how to implement computer-to-plate technology. An NAA staff member will launch RetrievalWare's search interface and perform a natural-language query by typing in "computer to plate."

In addition to returning results that match the keywords chosen, RetrievalWare will also expand the search using closely related terms to find files that contain relevant information on the subject, even if the words "computer" and "plate" are not contained anywhere in the file.

The search results might include a research report, a magazine article, a link to a streaming media file from an NAA conference session, and the name of the NAA staff member who is most knowledgeable in this area. The caller could then be transferred to "Joe," an expert on computer-to-plate technology who might be able to provide a short, direct answer to the caller's question.

Joe might also perform his own RetrievalWare search to locate a few relevant files that he can then send to the caller to complete the information transfer--all in a fraction of the time it might have taken prior to implementing RetrievalWare.

"We want to give our staff fast, efficient access to the best information available, regardless of where that information resides and regardless of its native format," commented Stephen Paolinelli, knowledge manager, NAA Technology. "One of our primary objectives is to integrate the process of retrieving information contained in internal documents with information available on the Web."

To accomplish this goal the NAA's Technology Group will also use RetrievalWare Internet Spider, a multimedia, high-performance web spider/crawler, to supplement existing information resources. RetrievalWare Internet Spider will be used on an ongoing basis to probe a large number of external Web pages and collect relevant, up-to-the-minute news and information.

About the Newspaper Association of America

NAA is a nonprofit organization representing the $59 billion newspaper industry and more than 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. Most NAA members are daily newspapers, accounting for 87 percent of the U.S. daily circulation.

Headquartered in Tyson's Corner (Vienna, Va.), the Association focuses on six key strategic priorities that affect the newspaper industry collectively: marketing, public policy, diversity, industry development, newspaper operations and readership. Information about NAA and the industry may also be found at the Association's World Wide Web site on the Internet (www.naa.org).

About Convera RetrievalWare

Convera RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets.

Convera RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML, XML, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems), relational database tables, document management systems and groupware repositories.

Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Convera RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets.

RetrievalWare is the industry's most advanced search and retrieval solution based on its ability to search the broadest range of information repositories, handle information in multiple languages, deliver the most relevant information on any subject, and present the information in a way that knowledge workers can use most efficiently.

About Convera

Convera, the new company formed when Excalibur Technologies combined with Intel's Interactive Media Services division, is a leading provider of innovative software products that manage multimedia 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 over 700 customers in 29 countries from its offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

The following are worldwide trademarks of Convera Corporation or its subsidiary Convera Technologies, Inc.: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), Screening Room(R) and their respective logos.

This release contains comments 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, continued success in technological advances, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies, Inc., will not be integrated successfully.

Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's and Excalibur'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.