KnowNow Wins Enterprise Information Management Excellence Award

Business Wire, Jan 25, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- KnowNow Inc., the leader in enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions, announced today that it was awarded The Best Enterprise Search Implementation at Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 2007. Winning this award honors and recognizes KnowNow as a leader in the area of information management, enterprise search, and information security.

KnowNow offers enterprise customers the ability to tap into critical information about their business, market or competition as it appears in the blogosphere, trade publications, news sources or internal systems. The award was presented to KnowNow for its market and solution vision and ability to demonstrate real business value to enterprises utilizing advanced enterprise search and information access.

"Our growing list of Fortune 1000 customers in banking, technology and consulting services are demanding enterprise-class solutions to help manage their information overload," said Todd Rulon-Miller, chief executive officer of KnowNow. "The EIM award is a testament to our ability to deliver real value to enterprises that rely on immediate knowledge of company and market-altering information to make better and more timely business decisions."

"This is an additive and new capability that enables our marketing teams to be more effective," stated Cynthia Beckwith, vice president of customer experience at CSAA. "By automating searches and notifying CSAA when specific criteria are met, KnowNow has increased our productivity and awareness of our brand and competitors."

Judges for the award include senior industry experts and representatives from AXA Technologies, BellSouth Corp., Biogen Idec, Blackmont Capital, Citizens Financial Group, Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu, Intuit, Library of Congress, Marriott International, National Defense University, and Procter & Gamble.

EIM 2007 took place January 22-24 at the Hyatt Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco. EIM 2007 is the only industry-driven executive forum focused on improving information management. Best practices and practical strategies are presented to leverage corporate knowledge and information, increase productivity, eliminate redundancy, and contribute to the bottom line.

About KnowNow

More Fortune 1000 companies entrust KnowNow to deliver enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions that increase timely and profitable business decisions than any other vendor. By allowing users to specify the information they want delivered, when and where they want it, as it happens, KnowNow unlocks and delivers the most critical information to create unprecedented business opportunities.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., KnowNow is privately held, with backing from premier venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Levensohn Venture Partners, Palomar Ventures, Presidio Ventures and RSS Investors. KnowNow is a Microsoft Certified Partner. For more information, visit http://www.knownow.com or contact KnowNow at 1-877-561-KNOW.

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