Endeca`s Re-architected Engine Fully Exploits Multi-core Computing Available with New Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, has partnered with
strategic investor Intel to fundamentally reengineer aspects of its core
technology to natively exploit multi-core computing available with the Intel
Xeon processor line. The engine in the recently announced McKinley platform has
been reengineered to build faster, larger scale standards-based search
applications. The increasing performance demands of search applications require
more computing power than ever and the Intel Xeon hardware is expected to
deliver unmatched speed and scale for massive, disparate structured and
unstructured data commonly found among Endeca`s public and private sector
customers.

"Endeca`s developers have spent the last two years rewriting critical components
of its technology in order to natively exploit the multi-core world, rather than
running in the classic, single-CPU model," said Bruce Richardson, Chief Research
Officer, AMR Research, in a report entitled "Endeca: New Search Applications and
Platform for the Multi-Core World," released on Friday, March 20, 2009. "The
increased horsepower means users will have instantaneous access to tens of
millions of pieces of heterogeneous data, a term AMR Research`s Jim Murphy uses
to refer to structured and unstructured data. The new platform is also twice as
fast as the previous version, with Endeca executives hinting that the doubling
of speed is only the beginning."

Endeca`s search applications help people make better decisions by giving them
access to any information from anywhere any way they need it by letting users
search, sort, filter, and analyze large volumes of diverse and changing data.
Search applications complement traditional process applications by enhancing the
decision points embedded in processes. Where traditional process applications
support pre-determined workflows, search applications allow users to follow
their own path through the data to get the perspective they need to make the
decision at hand.

A platform to build search applications requires an engine that supports ad hoc
queries on diverse and changing information, a way to get the data into the
engine and a way to get it out into an application, as well as the necessary
tools for both IT and the business to manage the application. The McKinley
platform provides these components. In addition, the redesigned engine lays the
foundation for continuing improvements in speed, scale and simplicity.

"Only once in a decade do we see advances in the hardware landscape as
significant as the new generation of Intel Xeon processors, which fundamentally
shift our product scalability onto a steeper curve," said Adam Ferrari, CTO,
Endeca Technologies. "Endeca has re-architected its core software to take
advantage of the multi-core and improved memory access characteristics of this
new generation of Xeon processors, and we are already seeing performance
increases of 150% or more. We expect upcoming processor revisions, combined with
our continued work on multi-core optimization to yield order of magnitude scale
improvements in key use cases. This means our customers can search and analyze
significantly more of their enterprise data on a single server platform, greatly
reducing the IT costs associated with maintaining clusters."

Endeca will feature the McKinley platform at the Intel Intelligent Processors
Event at the JW Marriot Hotel in downtown Washington, DC on April 21. This event
will highlight Intel's next generation chip architecture and the industry
leading organizations, including Endeca, who are incorporating this technology
into their products. For more information on this event, please visit
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=700305.

About Endeca

Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built
on Endeca`s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving
hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for
customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca`s Information Access Platform, a
major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for
building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any
way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make
better choices and employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users
around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use
at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox
Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company,
Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments and
Walmart.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America,
Europe and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.

Endeca Technologies, Inc.
Alison Durant, + 617-674-6335
Director, Corporate Marketing & Communications
adurant@endeca.com

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