Excalibur announces EFS WebFile; information retrieval company delivers World Wide Web access to leading document image management system.MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1995--Excalibur Technologies Corp. (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, Wednesday announced Excalibur EFS EFS Encrypted File System (Microsoft Windows 2000) EFS Event Free Survival (survival rates in clinical trials) EFS Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Sweden) WebFile, the World Wide Web-enabled version of its widely used Excalibur EFS document image management system. EFS WebFile integrates Excalibur's powerful searching capabilities and intuitive interface with advanced Web server technology. For the first time, users with a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. on any desktop platform can access EFS filerooms across the Internet. "We see enormous demand for EFS WebFile from customers in banking, financial services, media and other vertical industries," said Pete Ettinger, director of imaging services for DIS Research, a New York City-based reseller and systems integrator. "Their business is global, and they demand systems to manage their intellectual property and other information repositories as shared, strategic assets across the entire organization. EFS WebFile will expand the user base among existing customers and create significant new opportunities for Excalibur EFS as well." "Excalibur EFS WebFile answers a strong message from our key customers for a Web-based solution for their EFS filerooms," stated Patrick C. Condo, president of Excalibur Technologies. "These customers have requested an easy and affordable method to expand access to their information assets. The Internet represents a powerful and widely accepted medium to fulfill this demand." Pricing and Availability Excalibur EFS WebFile, scheduled for shipment in April 1996, will be available on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. and Windows/NT platforms, priced at $4,950 plus standard EFS pricing for concurrent users. Excalibur will also release EFS WebSearcher, offering a subset of WebFile features, in 10 packs of concurrent users, at $495 per user. WebFile supports more than 100 document input types, automatically generating HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages. WebFile supports a wide range of image viewers in TIFF and DDIF DDIF - Digital Document Interchange Format. A CDA specification for representing compound documents in revisable format; a DEC standard for document encoding. formats. Excalibur Technologies Excalibur Technologies meets the challenge of information retrieval, empowering end-users with the industry's most complete set of capabilities to find the information they need. Only Excalibur delivers both pattern recognition-based 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 data. Excalibur was founded in 1980 and is a publicly held corporation. 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.xrs.com. -0- NOTE: Excalibur Technologies Corp. and the Excalibur logo are registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability , RetrievalWare, EFS WebFile and EFS WebSearcher are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. CONTACT: Judith Feder, 914/328-2962 judy_feder@cq.com |
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