KMWorld Names Endeca Navigation Engine Trend-Setting Product of 2004

Business Wire, Sept 14, 2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Enterprise Search and Navigation Engine Awarded for Groundbreaking Approach to Information Discovery

Endeca, the only provider of advanced search and Guided Navigation(SM )solutions for the enterprise, announced today that the Endeca Navigation Engine(R) has been named a Trend-Setting Product of 2004 by KMWorld magazine. The coveted distinction was bestowed upon Endeca's technology after a thorough review of more than 1000 knowledge management products from over 200 different vendors.

The Endeca Navigation Engine represents a fundamental breakthrough in information discovery and retrieval and powers Endeca's patent-pending Guided Navigation technology. Guided Navigation gives users the unprecedented ability to integrate search and navigation to quickly and easily find the most relevant products, content and corporate data. The award-winning enterprise search and navigation platform, Endeca ProFind(TM), and the market-leading commerce search solution, Endeca InFront(R), utilize the Endeca Navigation Engine to help organizations drive sales, enable customer and employee self-service, improve productivity, realize new operational efficiencies and optimize lowest-cost channels.

With more than 130 customers, including Barnes & Noble, IBM, The Library of Congress, Quick & Reilly and Walgreens, already realizing the business benefits of Endeca's revolutionary approach, Guided Navigation has become an RFP requirement for most search technology buyers. To meet the new and ever-increasing demand, enterprise search vendors have attempted to incorporate similar capabilities into their product lines. None have been able to match Endeca's intuitive management, rich functionality and performance at scale - the result of building collective best practices learned from over 200 commercial deployments back into the product.

"Enterprise search engines represent a critical piece of the overall knowledge management equation, but like their Web equivalents, many return long lists of possible matches ranked by relevancy - sometimes with little means of determining whether or not they are truly relevant to the user," said Hugh McKellar, editor-in-chief of KMWorld magazine. "The Endeca Navigation Engine -- a directed search engine with deep underlying analytics -- gives users the ability to refine search results on the fly, explore the information they deem most relevant and discover new content."

Endeca Search and Guided Navigation solutions help knowledge-centric organizations in government, financial services, manufacturing, information publishing, business-to-business commerce and retail maximize the value of their content, catalog and enterprise information assets. Endeca is used worldwide in a wide range of enterprise and customer applications including Knowledge Management, CRM, customer and employee self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and portal integration.

About Endeca

Endeca's award-winning Search and Guided Navigation solutions help organizations to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with information overload. Endeca's customers include a wide range of enterprises including retailers (Barnes & Noble, CompUSA, 1-800-Flowers, and BMG Music); finance (Putnam Investments, MFS Investments, and Quick & Reilly); business-to-business companies (IBM, Arrow Electronics and CDW); content delivery (World Book and IHS) and government (CIA and the Library of Congress). In 2004, the AlwaysOn Network named Endeca one of the top 100 private companies in North America. Endeca is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. (USA) More info: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.

About KMWorld

The leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market, KMWorld (with a focus on Content, Document and Knowledge Management) informs more than 51,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories - that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

Endeca, Endeca InFront and Endeca Navigation Engine are registered trademarks, Endeca ProFind is a trademark 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.