Excalibur and Auto-trol Ink OEM Agreement for Technical Information Management Market.MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1996--Excalibur Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), the leading provider of software components for information retrieval, and Auto-trol Technology, a leading provider of computer-based solutions for technical information management, today announced a worldwide OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement. Auto-trol will integrate Excalibur's RetrievalWare pattern-recognition and semantic network search and retrieval software into CENTRA 2000, a comprehensive system for creating, distributing and managing technical information. CENTRA 2000 combines document management, workflow, product data management, change management and messaging in a graphical, client/server computing environment. Applications include engineering document management, manufacturing product process management, petrochemical regulatory document management and long-document management for technical publishing. "Full-text retrieval has become a `must-have' capability large-scale document management applications," noted Terry Cook, CENTRA 2000 Product Manager. "Our clients are extending their information searches beyond just text to multimedia formats and beyond LANs/WANs to the World-Wide Web. We sought the best-of-breed retrieval components, and we found them in Excalibur's RetrievalWare. "Only RetrievalWare delivers a complete spectrum of search options, from pattern matching to Boolean to fuzzy spelling, to true natural language querying," Cook added. "Our developers have found RetrievalWare unmatched for scalability, reliability and ease of integration. And only Excalibur can extend its core technology beyond text, to content-based retrieval of images and other data types." "Demand for document management in the engineering, petrochemical and manufacturing industries is exploding," said Patrick C. 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. of Excalibur Technologies. "This OEM agreement places RetrievalWare at the heart of a robust, highly open and sophisticated technical document management system, with support for SGML SGML in full Standard Generalized Markup Language Markup language for organizing and tagging elements of a document, including headings, paragraphs, tables, and graphics. , CALS (Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support) A DOD initiative for electronically capturing military documentation and linking related information. and ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 900x standards, interfaces to leading CAD and engineering software, and to organizations' existing business data systems. We look forward to working with Auto-trol to meet the needs of major private sector and government customers worldwide." CENTRA 2000 Release 3.0, incorporating Excalibur's RetrievalWare, will be available for shipment in March 1996. Platforms supported include SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , and Windows NT as both clients and servers, and Windows and Windows 95 as client applications. Auto-trol Technology Corporation develops and markets computer-based solutions for the creation, distribution and management of technical information for the engineering, petrochemical and manufacturing industries. Based in Denver, Auto-trol employs 350 people in offices worldwide and has installed systems for more than 2,000 customers in both domestic and international markets. Auto-trol is a full service provider, supplying hardware, software, integration/consulting services and hardware/software support. Auto-trol is a publicly held corporation trading under NASDAQ Small Cap (ATTC ATTC Addiction Technology Transfer Center ATTC Aboriginal Tourism Team Canada (now Aboriginal Tourism Canada) ATTC Aviation Technical Test Center ATTC Advanced Television Test Center ATTC Austrian Traffic Telematics Cluster ). Excalibur Technologies Corporation has set the standard for excellence in information retrieval since 1980, leading the industry in high-performance search and retrieval solutions to the online, federal and corporate intranet markets. Only Excalibur delivers toolkits and imaging applications based on both pattern recognition and semantic network searching, simultaneously leveraging the underlying patterns of digital information, and the actual meaning of words. Excalibur's RetrievalWare provides the first set of tools optimized for creating retrieval solutions for text, images and other forms of digital media. Excalibur is a publicly held corporation trading under NASDAQ (EXCA). Contact Excalibur in North America at 619/438-7900, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, and on the World Wide Web at http://www.excalib.com. -0- Note to Editors: Excalibur Technologies Corporation and the Excalibur logo are registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability and RetrievalWare are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. CENTRA 2000 is a trademark of Centra 2000, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Auto-trol Technology Corporation. Other brands or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies Judith Feder, 914/328-2962 judy_feder@cq.com |
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