Endeca teams with Basis Technology to deliver multilingual search solutions

— Companies Combine Expertise to Deliver Powerful Information Retrieval Solutions to International Markets —

Cambridge, MA, August 27, 2003-Basis Technology, a leading provider of products and services for software globalization and multilingual data management, and Endeca, a leader in advanced search and Guided Navigation solutions, announced today that Endeca will incorporate Basis Technology’s Rosette Language Analyzers into their award winning software for commerce and enterprise search, Endeca InFront and Endeca ProFind. The combination of the two companies’ products and expertise will give Endeca’s multinational customers new robust multilingual features, and it opens new government and commercial markets for the company’s products.

“In the past year, globalization and localization of information access has become an important element in retrieval software,” said Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, Content Management and Retrieval Software at IDC. “Multinational companies are increasingly insistent on being able to accept queries and return documents in multiple languages, and eventually to search across languages. They also are requiring that search engines be UTF-8 compliant. By adding the Basis Language Analyzers in multiple languages, Endeca has increased its appeal to these larger organizations.”

Endeca’s enterprise search offering, Endeca ProFind, features advanced search and Guided Navigation and is uniquely able to handle both structured and unstructured information for easier access to all types of enterprise data and documents residing across a wide variety of repositories.

“Endeca is a company on the move in the Enterprise Search space,” said John Machonis, VP of Sales and Marketing for Basis Technology. “We concur with the many analysts who are picking Endeca among the winners in this segment. We are excited to contribute our expertise in linguistics and our knowledge of unstructured data management to their explosive growth and success over the coming years.”

The Rosette® Language Analyzers are part of the Rosette Globalization Platform, Basis Technology’s suite of interoperable products designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages. These language analysis products deliver high-quality and high-performance solutions for the linguistic analysis of Asian, Arabic, and European languages. Each analyzer incorporates an in-depth knowledge base of the nuances of each specific language, enabling applications such as Endeca ProFind to deliver reliable, accurate search results in any language.

“Basis Technology is known for its outstanding linguistics technologies that suit both the commercial and government markets,” said Mark Watkins, vice president of development for Endeca. “The quality of their products and their deep bench of expertise is a match with the team, open technology platform, and products we have built here at Endeca. We look forward to a long prosperous relationship with Basis.”

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from multilingual text. The company’s Rosette® Platform is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity and Yahoo!.

Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.

About Endeca

Endeca offers innovative advanced search and Guided Navigation™ information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. Endeca technology is already at work for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble, Putnam Investments, Eddie Bauer, and Arrow Electronics. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. Patent-pending algorithms provide a scalable, Web-based infrastructure for data exploration, leading to highly relevant and meaningful search results every time. This technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) analytics, catalogs, directories, search and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is backed by leading venture capital firms including Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner and is a preferred provider of IBM’s WebSphere Commerce Group. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.