Endeca, Non-linear Creations Team For Ontario Cancer Trials Portal; First-of-a-Kind Cancer Treatment Website Designed to Help Patients Discover and Learn About New Clinical Trials

Business Wire, Sept 21, 2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and OTTAWA, Ontario -- Endeca, the leading provider of advanced search and Guided Navigation(SM) solutions, and non-linear creations, a leading e-business design, development and marketing company, today announced that they have created a first-of-its-kind clinical trials portal for the Ontario Cancer Research Network (OCRN). Funded by the Ontario Government, the new site, www.ontariocancertrials.ca, provides a searchable database of cancer clinical trials taking place throughout Canada's most populated province.

Clinical trials offer important options for patients to consider by combining the highest quality care with the potential for access to promising new treatments. However at any given time, there are well over 200 different clinical trials taking place at various facilities throughout Ontario. Designed to be a simple yet comprehensive resource for cancer patients, their families and their physicians, the new portal site offers Endeca Search and Guided Navigation to quickly and easily identify the most relevant trials based on cancer type, the type of treatment, specific drugs and location.

"It is estimated that less than five per cent of patients currently being treated for cancer take part in these critical studies. One reason for the low participation is that cancer patients and their care providers may not be aware of all their treatment options," said Dr. Bob Phillips, CEO or the Ontario Cancer Research Network. "By aggregating a wealth of information from clinics across Ontario and offering the intuitive, powerful tools to quickly explore and identify the most relevant trials, OCRN can better help today's cancer patients -- while improving and expanding the treatment options for tomorrow's cancer patients."

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.

non-linear creations is a leading Canadian integrator of Endeca Search and Guided Navigation solutions. Providing end-to-end e-business consulting services from strategic analysis, process re-engineering, data manipulation, installation and integration non-linear creations ensures effective customer search experiences.

About OCRN

OCRN is a not-for-profit corporation working to accelerate the development and testing of new cancer therapies in Ontario to bring innovative treatments to patients sooner. OCRN was established with $100 million in funding from the Government of Ontario.

For more information on OCRN, visit www.ocrn.on.ca.

About non-linear creations

Founded in 1995, non-linear creations is an award-winning e-business company with a powerful vision and purpose: to leverage the business benefits of Internet technology in order to drive a strong ROI for our clients. This ideal guides all NLC efforts, from Web site and application development to Content Management and Internet marketing initiatives. With offices in Ottawa and Toronto, non-linear creations is privately held and debt-free. Amid the instability of the dot.com collapse, NLC has remained profitable, stable and proud of its reputation for making a difference to our clients' bottom lines.

For more information, visit http://www.nonlinear.ca/

About Endeca

Endeca's award-winning Search and Guided Navigation solutions help organizations to integrate, discover, and navigate 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 (IBM, Arrow Electronics and CDW); content delivery (World Book and IHS) and government (In-Q-Tel and the Library of Congress). Endeca is a private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More info: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.

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