Software offers enterprise document search capability.

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RetrievalWare® 8.2 enterprise search technology sorts document collections using distributed parallelized indexing and configurable real time alerting. Access control plug-in allows for custom document level security implementations and real time validation, while proxy login through Web Services facilitates portal integration. Software features search interface that is deployed as Web Services and delivered as reference application for developing customized applications.



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Convera® Enhances Leading Search Technology for Government



General Availability of RetrievalWare 8.2 Continues the Evolution of Enterprise Search

VIENNA, Va., Oct. 10 -- Convera Corporation (Nasdaq: CNVR - News), a leading provider of search technologies for professional workers, today announced general availability of RetrievalWare® 8.2, the latest version of the company's leading enterprise search technology. For over 20 years government professionals in the defense and intelligence communities have trusted Convera® technology to provide the most advanced search solutions, and this most recent version builds on that proven heritage. RetrievalWare 8.2 provides more than a dozen performance and productivity enhancements, tailored to specific customer feedback and requests.

"During beta testing, version 8.2 demonstrated significant enhancements," said Helen Mitchell, Project Manager for Enterprise Search at the Food and Drug Administration. "These include improved indexing speeds, the ability to sort documents by crawl and modification date and other features that will greatly assist the federal search professional."

Some of the new RetrievalWare 8.2 capabilities include:

o Distributed Indexing -- Increased performance for large document
collections using distributed, parallelized indexing and configurable
real time alerting.
o Security -- New access control plug-in allows for custom document level
security implementations and real time validation. Proxy login through
Web Services facilitates portal integration.
o Search Interface -- Search interface deployed as 100% Pure Web Services
and delivered as a reference application for quickly developing
customized applications.
o Migration -- New tools for easy migrations from earlier versions of the
software.
o Platform Support -- Added support to keep up with the latest platforms
and databases, including SQL 2005, Oracle® 10g, Solaris(TM) 10 and Red
Hat® AS 4.

"In today's climate of exponential data growth across the enterprise and the Internet, getting the right information at exactly the right time to inform critical decision-making has never been more important," said Kurt Gastrock, chief operating officer of Convera. "We are very proud of the faith put in Convera by our government customers, and we will continue to innovate and support them with the most powerful search tools available."

Convera continues to expand the ways its technology can assist professional searchers. Recently the company announced TrueKnowledge Platform(TM) to meet the evolving search needs of professionals worldwide. TrueKnowledge Platform is delivered to customers in three distinct ways -- as a hosted service, as a bundled hardware and software solution and as software- only enterprise search. Customers can choose the solution delivery that best suits their needs.

RetrievalWare 8.2 is available immediately. Please call 800-755-7005 for pricing information.

About Convera

Convera® is a leading provider of search technologies for professional workers. Convera has developed a unified product platform that makes sense of vast amounts of information-wherever it resides-across multiple data formats, languages and meanings. Based on proprietary technologies that extract relevant results from public and private data, Convera enables professionals to quickly retrieve exactly the information essential for action. The Convera search platform, TrueKnowledge Platform(TM), is delivered as a hosted service, software or a bundled hardware and software package. Thousands of government and business professionals in 40 countries rely on Convera search solutions to power a broad range of mission critical applications.

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