Excalibur Announces Cyber Seminar Series Focusing on Intelligent Search Solutions

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2000

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2000

Free Seminars Designed to Help Organizations Increase Effectiveness of Web Sites or Portals; Industry Analysts from Creative

Good and The Delphi Group to Present

Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: EXCA), a leading provider of content management solutions for indexing and retrieving text, video and images on the Internet and intranets, today announced its free Intelligent Search Solutions Cyber Seminar Series, highlighting Excalibur's solutions for Internet e-Commerce and Intranet Portals.

Without having to leave their office, participants will learn how to increase the effectiveness of their web site or enterprise portal by incorporating highly-accurate, scalable search and retrieval technologies.

The hour-long seminars also will feature guest presentations from leading industry analysts, including Aamir Rahman of Creative Good and Hadley Reynolds of The Delphi Group.

"Getting the right information at the right time to the right people can make or break your business," said Kamran Khan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Excalibur Technologies. "Intelligent search functionality is at the heart of every successful web-based business, and as technology develops and more people access information online, the demand will be towards greater precision, access and ease of use in search technology. This seminar series aims to cut through the rhetoric and help companies understand how new, break-through search products can make them more competitive."

"Intelligent search is a powerful asset in creating an overall positive experience on your web site," said Aamir Rahman, Senior Customer Experience Analyst, Creative Good. "It can make all the difference - between satisfying and retaining loyal customers - or turning them away in frustration. A successful search experience can help guarantee that a customer will return to your site."

Realizing that one search doesn't fit all, Excalibur developed this series to cater to specific search needs. Seminar participants are able to choose between the Internet focused e-Commerce seminar on "Intelligent Search for Smart Sites - Satisfied Visitors and Increased Revenues" and the Intranet seminar on "Intelligent Corporate Portals - Empowering Users with Smart Search."

The two seminar tracks will take place over eight different dates between October 17th and November 16th. Participants also will receive a free report from Creative Good and The Delphi Group.

To register, or for more details, visit http://www.excalib.com/cyber2 or call (800) 788-7758.

About Creative Good

Creative Good (www.creativegood.com) is an Internet consulting firm focused on improving e-businesses through improving the online customer experience. Their customer experience approach blends strategy, usability and organizational change consulting.

About The Delphi Group

The Delphi Group (www.delphigroup.com) is the leading provider of advisory services, consulting, market research, education and community building seminars and conferences for the areas of e-business, knowledge and content management.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices around the world, Delphi Group has assisted professionals across disciplines and industries at nearly every major national and global organization and branch of government.

About Excalibur Technologies Corporation

Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: EXCA) is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video.

Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and e-Commerce sites.

Excalibur customers and partners include ABC News, AT&T, Akamai, BG Technology, The Boeing Company, British Telecom, CareerBuilder.com, DataChannel, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, Harvard Medical School, ICI, Loudeye, NCR, Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies Corp., QXL.com, Raytheon, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, UCLA, United Airlines, Watson Wyatt and The World Bank.

On May 1, 2000, Excalibur and Intel's Interactive Media Services Division announced an agreement to merge and form a new company, Convera Corporation. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review and shareholder approval, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2000.

Plans for the new company focus on achieving a leading role in web-based interactive media services.

Contact Excalibur at 800-788-7758 or 703-761-3700, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com.

The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur Technologies Corp.(R), RetrievalWare(R), ScreeningRoom(TM), WebExpress(R) and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation.