Ogilvy & Mather Implement Knowledge Management Solution With the Knowledge Refinery and Convera; Solution To Be Used By 10,000 Employees Across 103 Countries

Business Wire, April 17, 2002

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2002

Ogilvy & Mather, a worldwide marketing communications company, has signed an agreement with The Knowledge Refinery to implement Convera's RetrievalWare(R) (Nasdaq:CNVR) search and retrieval solution across its internal knowledge management system. Ogilvy & Mather is working with The Knowledge Refinery, a company focused on developing and managing knowledge management and collaboration initiatives, to better exploit its `best practice' information, which is shared across 103 countries and 10,000 employees.

By integrating RetrievalWare's cross-lingual and multimedia tools within a tailored intranet solution, The Knowledge Refinery will enable Ogilvy & Mather's employees to search quickly and accurately across a wealth of internal information. RetrievalWare's intelligent semantic networks and Adaptive Pattern Recognition Process (APRP) technology will allow Ogilvy & Mather to search using industry-specific terminology and to use its advanced relevancy ranking tools to present the results.

About Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (www.ogilvy.com), a subsidiary of WPP Group plc (NASDAQ:WPPGY), is the world's ninth largest agency network, with billings totaling almost $13 billion. It is a communications and marketing company specializing in advertising, relationship and interactive marketing, with public relations, sales promotion, and related services available from 422 offices in 103 countries. Its clients include American Express, IBM, AT&T Wireless, SAP, Ford Motor Company, BP, Motorola, Unilever, Kraft, Kimberly Clark, Kodak and Sears.

About The Knowledge Refinery

The Knowledge Refinery (www.theknowledgerefinery.com) provides knowledge management consultancy, software and services. Its Intranet Platform is a total knowledge management solution providing all the functionality required to support the knowledge sharing initiatives of international organizations.

The Knowledge Refinery believes that a company wishing to become a knowledge-sharing organization must not only focus on the technological enablers but also apply itself to the content, process and people issues. With this in mind, the company has developed a proprietary methodology for developing, implementing and managing knowledge management initiatives. The combination of this unique approach with technology that can be quickly and easily implemented, The Knowledge Refinery enables its clients to put in place the necessary processes to effect organizational change and realize the benefits of knowledge management.

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of software products that access, organize and utilize enterprise data, whether text, video, audio or image files. Convera's advanced cross-lingual, multimedia technologies and products enable organizations to optimize the value of all their content, establishing an information infrastructure that effortlessly scales to provide large numbers of users with fast, accurate, web-enabled access to all relevant information for a broad range of business critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, customer relationship management and many more. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com.

This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; continued success in technological advances; possible disruption in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements.

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