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ENTERPRISES SPEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON SERVERS AND STORAGE.


Recent estimates show that 90 percent of a company's information is used only once and that 85 percent of a company's information remains inaccessible. This, despite billions of dollars being spent by enterprises on servers and storage. Making matters worse, consider the following facts:

-- IDC estimates that knowledge workers spend 15-30 percent of their time just searching for information.

-- An enterprise with 1,000 knowledge workers loses a minimum of $6 million per year in time spent just searching for information (IDC).

-- Today's demanding regulatory environment is forcing companies to track data more closely, but most organizations do not have the technology in place to allow them to search for and access unstructured text formats such as email, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Intranet pages. SQL SQL
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 unstructured information.

Inxight's Stance on the Issue

Inxight(R) Software, Inc. believes that there are critical repercussions repercussions nplrépercussions fpl

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 for enterprises that continue to store unstructured information without having the tools to find it and put it to use. The lack of effective search and discovery solutions is causing these companies to lose productivity, increase costs, threaten profits and lose their competitive edge.

Inxight's Solution to the Problem

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 John C. Laing, Inxight's 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. , "The sad reality is that consumers using Google often have better search capabilities than the average knowledge worker. Today's enterprises leave information and, more importantly, answers on the table every day. They desperately need more advanced methods of locating and using unstructured information. Now several thought-leading companies in the publishing and pharmaceutical industries are ahead of the curve on this issue, and the U.S. government is also raising the bar due to the War on Terror This article is about U.S. actions, and those of other states, after September 11, 2001. For other conflicts, see Terrorism.

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 initiatives. What these organizations have found is that by applying powerful, yet simple, software to organize, find and use all their unstructured information they can achieve dramatic results such as increased productivity, reduced costs, greater profitability and significant competitive and intelligence advantages."

About Inxight SmartDiscovery

SmartDiscovery combines powerful search capabilities with cutting edge linguistic analysis tools that recognize the meaning of text at its most granular level in 26 languages, enabling users to extract precise information from any text data set within their organization, regardless of origin, location, language or complexity. This allows users to reduce, what was once a never-ending list of documents, to a small, targeted set of documents that best meets their needs. Inxight SmartDiscovery allows organizations to finally tap into their vast stores of information and put this data to use.

About Inxight

Inxight is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions that provide the fastest route from search to discovery. Using Inxight's solutions, companies can better access, understand and use the roughly 85 percent of information not housed in a database or other structured format. Inxight is the only company that provides a complete, scalable solution to enable search and discovery in all major languages. Customers include Ariba, Computer Associates, Factiva, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, LexisNexis, Reuters, SAP, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , Thomson and Xerox. The company has offices throughout the United States and Europe.

For more information, call 408/738-6299 or visit http://www.inxight.com.
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