Excalibur and PRC Announce Strategic Alliance for Electronic Document Management; RetrievalWare drives advanced information retrieval in PRC's Productivity Edge EDM solution.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1996--Excalibur Technologies Corporation (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 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. , and PRC, a leading provider of scientific and technology-based systems and services to government and commercial clients around the world, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver advanced electronic document management (EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management ) to major manufacturing, utility and government markets. PRC will integrate the text search and retrieval capability of Excalibur's RetrievalWare on an 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 basis into its Productivity Edge electric document management solution. A commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product, Productivity Edge supports a wide variety of data types, including hardcopy text and engineering drawings, computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive files, word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and and additional file formats. Productivity Edge delivers workflow, revision control Revision control (also known as version control (system) (VCS), source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. , viewing, redlining Identifying text that has been changed in a word processing document by displaying it in a special color, for example. It allows the original author of the text or other users to see ongoing revisions. The term comes from manual editing where a red pen is used to mark up the pages. and editing, e-mail support and content-based retrieval. It provides an Application Programmer Interface (API) and end-user customization tools for flexibility. An open, scaleable solution, Productivity Edge supports standalone, workgroup and enterprise requirements. "As a major provider of document management solutions, we are excited about Excalibur RetrievalWare's capabilities to provide our customers with a state-of-the-art tool to efficiently and completely access needed information. We are convinced that the text search of RetrievalWare, as a major element of our Productivity Edge family of products, will exceed the expectations of our customers in manufacturing, the government and utility markets," said Dr. Scott Wagoner, Vice President and Executive Manager of Productivity Edge. "Our agreement with PRC represents a major endorsement, both of the RetrievalWare family of software components, and of Excalibur's partnership strategy," noted 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. Excalibur is committed to delivering best-of-class software, distinguished by its accuracy, scalability, performance and the ability to extend beyond text retrieval, to finding images and even signal-based information by their native content. Through partners such as PRC, we will deliver the most advanced information retrieval solutions for document management, message handling, information filtering, multimedia asset management, and other mission-critical applications." PRC, Inc. PRC, a subsidiary of Litton Industries, Inc. has more than 5,600 people in 300 offices nationwide, and is a leading provider of information technology and systems-based solutions for the U.S. government. Litton is a leader in worldwide technology markets for advanced electronic and defense systems, and a major designer and builder of surface combatant ships for the U.S. Navy and allied nations. Excalibur Technologies 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, unified family of software components 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. Contact PRC at 800-441-0670, and on the World Wide Web at http://www.prc.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. Productivity Edge is a trademark of PRC Inc. Other brands or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies Judith Feder, 914/328-2962 jfeder@excalib.com or PRC Chuck Taylor, 703/556-2749 taylor_chuck@prc.com |
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