U.S. Army Deploys Convera's RetrievalWare to Provide Knowledge Management and Information Sharing in Support of Military Operations and Training

Business Wire, Jan 21, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003

Center for Army Lessons Learned Chooses Convera to Power

Combat Operations and Training Archive

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR) today announced that the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) is using Convera's RetrievalWare(R) to foster more effective information sharing and knowledge discovery among U.S. Army personnel preparing for or engaged in military operations and training.

CALL captures, analyzes and disseminates lessons learned and best practices back to the Army. RetrievalWare's advanced search functionality has been deployed on the CALL Database, the Army's principal electronic archive of operational records of selected training exercises, contingency operations and combat training centers.

The CALL Database (http://call.army.mil/calldb.htm), an information archive representing nearly three million pages of information, includes both a restricted database for Army personnel and public database that is available to anyone with Web access.

The restricted database includes records of Army operations, including after-action reports and other records of Army operations and training events. About 5,000 Army personnel regularly access the restricted CALL Database, which can be accessed from any Internet connection.

Users of the restricted CALL Database typically search for techniques, procedures and research materials while preparing for or while engaged in operations or training.

The Center for Army Lessons Learned has added comprehensive metadata to its archived information, which combined with RetrievalWare's advanced search functionality, provides Army personnel with the fast, accurate search results demanded by military users.

The public database contains a large amount of public information about the Army that has been approved for unlimited dissemination, including academic papers completed by Army personnel, and back issues of Military Review, a journal published at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

Convera's advanced search, retrieval and categorization solutions are used by nearly 150 government agencies, including more than 70 installations within the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

About the Center for Army Lessons Learned

The Center for Army Lessons Learned, based at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, is an organization within the Army that analyzes Army training and operations and captures the lessons learned by the Army. CALL captures, analyzes and disseminates lessons learned and best practices back to the Army.

The CALL Database is one of the main ways the Center for Army Lessons Learned disseminates important information within the Army.

About Convera's RetrievalWare

RetrievalWare is a high-performance multimedia, cross- and multi-lingual search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets.

RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text, video, image and audio files, HTML, XML, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems), relational database tables, document management systems, and groupware repositories.

Advanced search capabilities that can be used independently or interactively to enable the highest levels of accuracy include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching, and query-by-example. RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with thousands of users, documents, images, and/or multiple media assets.

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages.

More than 750 customers in over 29 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and 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.

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