Convera Announces Screening Room 3.0 For Secure Video Search; FBI and Department of Homeland Security License Screening Room 3.0

Business Wire, June 10, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2004

Convera Corporation (NASDAQ:CNVR), a leading provider of search and categorization software for enterprises and government agencies, today announced the launch of Screening Room 3.0(R), video search technology with new enterprise security features.

Used extensively within government and commercial enterprises for searching video libraries, Screening Room 3.0 is an optional component to Convera's RetrievalWare enterprise search platform, which also searches text and audio data.

Highly scalable for increasingly large video archives, Screening Room provides tools to manage and repurpose rich media assets. Used in conjunction with RetrievalWare, Screening Room delivers real-time capture, encoding, analysis and cataloguing of video, in addition to closed caption text, text generated by speech-to-text converters and other metadata over corporate intranets/extranets. Screening Room allows searching of vast multimedia repositories, and eliminates the need for analysts, archivists and general users to watch or play an entire video when only a small clip is needed by leading the searcher directly to the relevant portion of the video.

New security features to authenticate users and control the viewing and editing of sensitive video material are included within Screening Room 3.0. To build the new Screening Room 3.0 enterprise security features, Convera leveraged security features from its RetrievalWare product, which has been used to search sensitive government information for years.

"Multimedia search will grow in importance to enterprises, particularly for managing and accessing valuable marketing materials, or training materials," said Susan Feldman, Research Vice President for Content Technologies, IDC. "The addition of enterprise security features to Convera's Screening Room product enhances its usefulness to both government and commercial enterprises."

Recent government organizations that have purchased the Screening Room option of RetrievalWare include the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Worldwide over 250 government agencies, including over 100 intelligence and law enforcement operations, have adopted RetrievalWare as the standard discovery platform for security applications, intelligence gathering and evidence analysis.

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search 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 900 customers in 33 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.

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. The Convera design logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), and Screening Room(R). The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.