Endeca Recognized by KMWorld as a Company That Matters Most in Knowledge Management

Business Wire, March 3, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003

KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management 2003

Acknowledges Market Leaders for Velocity of Innovation

Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation(SM) with advanced search solutions, has been listed as one of KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management 2003. As in previous years, the list was conceived as a way to identify some of the organizations leading the way in the knowledge economy. It was compiled informally through discussions with colleagues, analysts, vendors and their competitors and has been designed to encourage the broader discussion of knowledge management.

"Criteria for inclusion varied, but all companies have things in common. Each has either helped to create a market, redefine one or enhance one, and they all share one thing - velocity of innovation," said Hugh McKellar, executive editor for KMWorld. "When you combine full-scale enterprise content management with some of the technologies offered by unstructured data management, the result is a powerful discipline or technology arena that truly and effectively manages knowledge."

"We are honored to be among the market leaders in this year's list recognizing the 100 most influential companies in knowledge management," said Steve Papa, CEO and founder of Endeca. "Our inclusion exemplifies our continued commitment to providing businesses with a better, easier way to access, retrieve and navigate through information - empowering companies to take advantage of the value in their data to enable better decision-making and improve worker productivity."

Endeca's Guided Navigation with advanced search solutions help businesses across a variety of sectors like retail, financial services and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload problems associated with content, catalog and enterprise information access and retrieval. Endeca solutions are built on innovative technology that makes it possible for the first time to offer Guided Navigation and advanced search on structured and unstructured information with high performance, and low total cost of ownership, even at massive scale.

About KMWorld

KMWorld is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market. The publication informs more than 56,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and related success stories - that together offer solutions for improving company's business performance.

About Endeca

Endeca offers innovative advanced search and Guided Navigation(SM) information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. Endeca technology is already at work for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble, Fidelity Investments, Eddie Bauer, and Arrow Electronics. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. Patent-pending algorithms provide a scalable, Web-based infrastructure for data exploration, leading to highly relevant and meaningful search results every time. This technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) analytics, catalogs, directories, search and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is backed by leading venture capital firms including Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner and is a preferred provider of IBM's WebSphere Commerce Group. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.

Endeca, Endeca Navigation Engine, Endeca InFront, Endeca ProFind and Endeca Data Foundry are trademarks and Guided Navigation is a service mark of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations