Excalibur expands alliance with EDS to provide knowledge retrieval solution for French utility giant.VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 1997-- 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 pioneer and leading provider of knowledge retrieval solutions, today announced an agreement with Electronic Data Systems (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ) France which will license Excalibur RetrievalWare(TM) to the French utility giant Electricite de France (EDF (algorithm) EDF - earliest deadline first. ). This partnership further solidifies the long-standing partnership between Excalibur and EDS, both domestically and internationally. EDS is currently a full-time integrator of Excalibur software as part of its media asset management tool (Media Vault) in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Excalibur and EDS France, as part of this expanded agreement, will partner on the installation and training that accompanies the Excalibur RetrievalWare product. After an in-depth comparative study, EDS determined that Excalibur RetrievalWare, which incorporates a full semantic network (data) semantic network - A graph consisting of nodes that represent physical or conceptual objects and arcs that describe the relationship between the nodes, resulting in something like a data flow diagram. with adaptive pattern recognition processing (APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability ), best matched EDF's requirements for a flexible, scalable, product that would produce accurate results in near real-time. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the agreement, Excalibur RetrievalWare will be deployed to sort, index, search and retrieve over 6,000 documents per day. Excalibur RetrievalWare will eliminate EDF's current work-intensive distribution and archiving problems, giving EDF employees more time to devote to their primary duties. "The cooperation between EDS in its role as systems integrator, and Excalibur as software publisher to our EDF-CLI customer worked very well. The Excalibur RetrievalWare solution, which has an undeniable competitive edge, was objectively the best product for our customer," said Marc Coffy, EDS Corporate Accounts. "We are very pleased to have struck this agreement with Excalibur because it will enable us to offer our customers solutions based on state-of-the-art information management technologies." "EDS is a well-established, highly-regarded systems integrator which has founded its success on providing its customers with solutions for their IT requirements," said Patrick Condo, president and chief executive officer of Excalibur. "EDS carried out a full analysis of the available information management systems and we are delighted that Excalibur RetrievalWare was selected for this project. We are extremely happy at the prospect of closer co-operation with EDS, which strives to offer the highest quality information systems to its customers." Electronic Data Services (EDS) EDS was established in the United States in 1962 and is the world's leading information and communication technology service company. EDS helps its customers to engineer competitive edge on their specific markets by implementing the information technologies most appropriate for their economic activity and structure. EDS supplies a full range of services, including management consultancy, system development, integration and management, up to and including process management. The company is the acknowledged outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. market leader worldwide. Excalibur Technologies Corp. Since 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:EXCA) has set the standard for excellence in knowledge retrieval solutions, empowering organizations and enabling people to transform information into knowledge. Only the Excalibur RetrievalWare(TM) family of products delivers a unified software solution for text and visual 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. . Excalibur products combine as a proven solution for large-scale knowledge retrieval applications where accuracy, scalability and reliability are paramount. Contact Excalibur in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. at 800/788-7758 or 703/761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com . -0- Excalibur Technologies Corp. and the Excalibur logo are registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. APRP, RetrievalWare and Visual RetrievalWare are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. Other brands or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective organizations named above. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies Corporate: Carter B. Cromley, 703/761-5296 ccromley@excalib.com or Fleishman-Hillard Press: Jennefer Traeger, 202/828-9733 traegerj@fleishman.com |
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