YMCA of the USA selects ConQuest for Information Desk

Business Wire, May 2, 1995

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 1995--ConQuest Software Inc., the leading provider of advanced text management solutions, Tuesday announced that its plain English, word meaning-based software will drive the YMCA of the USA's newly created Information Desk.

By streamlining access to information about YMCA programs and facilities, as well as newsletters, Medical Advisory Committee Recommendations, White Papers and other publications, the YMCA of the USA will improve its customer service to its local organizations, and enable its research and planning professionals to focus on consulting, development and strategic planning activities.

The Information Desk, using ConQuest's Windows graphical interface and networked architecture, will initially be implemented within the Research and Planning department at the YMCA's headquarters in Chicago. Future plans include dial-up and/or Internet access.

"We evaluated a number of software packages for this product, and ConQuest emerged as the clear winner," noted Charles Firke, associate director of Research and Planning for the YMCA of the USA. "What really sold us on ConQuest was its superb search and retrieval performance. With ConQuest's semantic knowledgebase, our users can enter plain English queries and retrieve relevant documents."

"ConQuest is delighted to be providing the solution for an innovative, online information system which will greatly improve the productivity of the YMCAs Research and Planning department," said John McGrath, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing for ConQuest. "We look forward to working with the Y as they expand the system to their local organizations and other users."

YMCA of the USA

The YMCA is a charitable association dedicated to building a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Part of a worldwide movement, it puts Christian principles into practice through programs that promote good health, strong families, youth leadership, community development, and international understanding.

YMCAs are open to men, women, and children of all ages, incomes, abilities, races, and religions at over 2,000 locations in 50 states.

ConQuest Software, Inc.

ConQuest Software, established in 1989, has earned broad acclaim as the best-of-breed for developing and delivering plain English text management software tools to meet the business challenges of publishers, vendors and information end-users today and into the future.

ConQuest and its strategic partners are redefining the information industry: creating new products and platforms for Internet access to heterogeneous information libraries, competitive intelligence, open source research, real-time news management, intelligent publishing, litigation support, market research and other key, text-intensive applications.

ConQuest delivers real-time profiling and retrospective retrieval engines, full Boolean, statistical, heuristic and word meaning-based concept search technologies, semantic network knowledgebases, and a complete set of application development tools for standalone, file share, and true client/server environments.

Only ConQuest builds in word meaning to drive the productivity of information searching, delivering unsurpassed precision and recall, while being extremely easy to use. ConQuest is a winner of the 1994 Washington Technology StarTech Best New Product Award and the 1994 Information Industry Association Entrepreneur of the Year Award. -0- ConQuest is a registered trademark of ConQuest Software Inc. All other trademarked terms are the property of their respective organizations.

CONTACT: ConQuest Software Inc.

Judith Feder, 914/946-3806

judy_feder@cq.com

National Online Meeting, Booth 153

or

YMCA of the USA

John Eix, 800/872-9622