KnowledgeBox From DolphinSearch Makes Networks More Intelligent.

Business Editors and High-Tech Writers

VENTURA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000

KnowledgeBox(TM) is a Network Information Retrieval Appliance

Capable of Finding any Unstructured Text Document on

a Company's LAN, Intranet or Extranet;

It's Like Using a Human Librarian to Find Your Documents

KnowledgeBox, from DolphinSearch Inc., is a new plug-and-play network information retrieval appliance that quickly reads documents, understands their meaning and remembers where they are stored.

It does content-based searches across the corporate LAN, intranet or extranet, with the efficiency of a human librarian. KnowledgeBox is compatible with every major network configuration, and all the popular document management software. Its browser-driven interface eliminates the need for any client software.

With the huge proliferation of documents on corporate networks, it is no longer sufficient to search for documents using keywords, meta-tags or corporate directories. True content search is often the only way to quickly locate a specific document in an environment crowded with many similar-seeming documents.

KnowledgeBox Is the Next Generation of Knowledge Management

Every year, companies waste significant time and money trying to find information they already have. Countless memos, reports, e-mail, research studies and other text-based documents get lost in the shuffle of everyday business.

"DolphinSearch has used its patent-pending technology to build a next-generation knowledge management and document retrieval solution for corporate intranets, extranets and LANs," said Andy Kraftsow, DolphinSearch chief executive officer.

"The return on investment is substantial. KnowledgeBox pays for itself when it saves a knowledge worker as little as five minutes per week. Our experience with many beta testers shows KnowledgeBox can save hours of work, with even the simplest searches done in the corporate environment each week. Moreover, KnowledgeBox is easy to install, easy to use and requires no library maintenance."

"Competing document retrieval solutions are fundamentally inadequate for today's document-intensive corporate environment," Kraftsow noted. "They use technology that hasn't fundamentally changed in 25 years."

Current solutions fall into two categories: either they require that all documents on the network be meta-tagged or placed into rigid hierarchical categories, or they use Boolean-based free-text search algorithms that are based on the frequency of word occurrence in documents.

Neither method is adequate for the number of documents living on today's networks. What is required is a solution that can read documents with enough understanding to know what they are actually about. Only KnowledgeBox can do that, and with a reading speed in excess of 10,000 documents per hour, it is powerful enough for even the largest corporate networks.

KnowledgeBox Supports Existing Network Security Protocols

KnowledgeBox lives behind a company's firewall and supports the company's existing network security at the directory, file and document level. Remote access, if desired, is secured using SSL/TLS. KnowledgeBox will also support all security protocols for documents stored in corporate databases.

Pricing is Very Reasonable

Pricing is $10/seat/month, with a minimum commitment of $10,000 (U.S.) in the first year. In subsequent years the minimum annual commitment drops to $2,000. Availability is one week ARO. KnowledgeBox comes with a 30-day return offer. If the customer is dissatisfied for any reason in the first 30 days, DolphinSearch will remove the system and refund any payments.

Corporate Summary

DolphinSearch Inc. was founded in 1999 to exploit Dr. Herbert L. Roitblat's pioneering research into how dolphin brains process echolocation signals. The research has led to breakthroughs in using pattern recognition techniques to enable machines to recognize the meaning of human language.

The DolphinSearch Inc. home office is located at 474 East Main St. Ventura, Calif. 93001; Phone: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]. Visit the DolphinSearch Web site for further information on the company and its technology at www.dolphinsearch.com.

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