Endeca Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of 2006 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Endeca, a next-generation information access company, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2006 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant report1. According to Gartner, vendors listed in this quadrant demonstrate significant architectural flexibility. They have a strong, innovative and broad means of determining relevancy of results to users and provide developers with the flexibility and appropriate tools to tune these relevancy settings. They are financially prepared to weather hard times, and they possess sufficient resources to invest inorganically and organically in technology and business growth. They have established sufficient depth and strength to serve as platform vendors whose software might be used to solve most information access problems.

According to the report, "This Magic Quadrant includes vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a collection of technologies, including search, content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; and information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding." In the report, Gartner states that "finding information, and acting on it intelligently, demands increasingly sophisticated and innovative strategies."

"Organizations are now employing new classes of information access applications to inform decisions - decisions that increase revenue, optimize resource allocation, ensure compliance, and improve overall business performance," said Steve Papa, chief executive officer of Endeca. "As Gartner points out, information access technologies are rapidly becoming the conduit between disparate data and content, uniting all information to give users a holistic and contextual view of related information scattered across enterprise systems."

About Endeca

Endeca is a next-generation information access company, uniting the ease of search with the analytical power of business intelligence. Combining patented intellectual property, breakthrough science and a deep focus on user experience, the Endeca Information Access Platform helps people find, analyze and understand information in ways never before possible. Leading global organizations like ABN AMRO, Bank of America, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, Dice, The (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, The Home Depot, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, The Library of Congress, Nike, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs and streamline operations.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 6, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2006, by Whit Andrews and Rita E. Knox, published October 6, 2006 by Gartner, Inc.