Cambridge, MA - March 20, 2006 - MetaCarta®, Inc., a leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, announced today it has joined Convera Corporation’s (NASDAQ: CNVR), Open Excalibur™ Partner Program enhancing Excalibur’s ability to solve advanced Internet search challenges. MetaCarta’s geographic search capabilities will allow Excalibur users to rapidly sift through and find relevant unstructured data using geographic text references inherent in that information.
MetaCarta’s technology automatically identifies geographic references using advanced natural language processing (NLP) from unstructured content in a customer’s archives, including email, web pages, newswires and cables. It then assigns a latitude and longitude to these references so that users can analyze their text archives using geographic maps, keywords and time as filters.
“Convera is building an open platform for mining the Internet,” said Patrick Condo, CEO of Convera. “We provide the basic infrastructure and the index/search/retrieval function on which other key technologies can be layered to solve customers’ problems.”
The Open Excalibur™ search platform provides easy integration of the 3rd party products and services by adhering to established open interface standards such as REST and XML. In addition, Convera is working with partners on an open indexing API to allow 3rd party technologies such as language processing, entity extractors, and geo-tagging to fit directly into the indexing pipeline. The Open ExcaliburTM platform will allow customers to incorporate other best-of-breed technologies to customize the Excalibur search and analysis capabilities to their specific needs.
“MetaCarta’s unique technology has already proven essential to government and commercial enterprises. MetaCarta’s solution complements Excalibur and together provides a robust solution for these communities,” said Claudine Bianchi, Vice President of Marketing at MetaCarta.
About Convera
Convera is a leading provider of search technologies to commercial enterprises and government agencies. Through its two offerings, Excalibur™, a newly developed Web search solution and RetrievalWare®, its enterprise search product, Convera offers unique search technology capable of providing an integrated results page derived from both intranet and Internet content. Convera’s technologies manage vast stores of structured and unstructured information that exist within internal repositories and on the Web by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search capabilities across text, video, image and audio information, in multiple languages. More than 900 customers in 40 countries rely on Convera search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications. For more information, contact Convera at 800-755-7005, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com.
About MetaCarta
MetaCarta, a leading provider of geographic intelligence, offers comprehensive analysis tools to enable better business decisions. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 2001, MetaCarta provides groundbreaking technology that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and text search. The company presents innovative solutions that improve decision-making by making it possible for customers to place documents on a map. The company is privately held, with offices in Cambridge, MA, Vienna, VA, and Houston, TX. To learn more about MetaCarta, please visit www.metacarta.com.
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