Exalead and The vdR Group Debut Search-Based Application for Manufacturing and Engineering Organizations

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Exalead, a global provider of search-based business application (SBA)
technology, and The vdR Group, a leading developer of integration
solutions for manufacturing and engineering applications, today
introduced Partrieve, an SBA built on the Exalead CloudView platform.
Manufacturing and engineering companies can immediately take advantage of
Partrieve to quickly find part and product data located across hundreds
of databases. Rapid access enables these companies to improve user
productivity, optimize design and information reuse, accelerate
time-to-market and reduce cost of ownership.

Partrieve v5.0 helps users find and access part and product data that
reside in multiple and disparate repositories, applications, and various
content formats within an enterprise. It extends the powerful web paradigm
of fast and easy access to information and builds on it by further adding
powerful interactive discovery and analysis tools.

"We needed a search platform that would give our customers the confidence
that Partrieve could handle large volumes of part data and related
content, operate in a global environment and scale easily as needed,"
said Martin van der Roest, president and CEO of vdR. "With the Exalead
CloudView OEM Edition, we got just that. As a result, we were able to
focus on our integration technologies, user experience and the overall
Partrieve solution."

Partrieve unifies and aggregates part data independent of its source,
format, language or units of measure. Data can exist in computer-aided
design (CAD), electronic content management (ECM), enterprise resource
planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions and more.
Formats can include documents, spreadsheets, media files, and CAD
drawings.

ISVs and integrators can use CloudView OEM Edition to differentiate their
solutions with high-performing and highly-scalable embedded search
capabilities. Built on an open, modular architecture, CloudView uses
minimal hardware but provides high scalability, which helps reduce
overall TCO. Additionally, CloudView uses advanced semantic technologies
to automatically analyze, categorize, enhance and align data to deliver
more accurate, precise and relevant search results.

"CloudView OEM offers the fastest way for ISVs, integrators and solutions
providers to build search-based business applications that meet the unique
needs of their customers," said Ranjeet Vidwans, VP of Business
Development for Exalead. "Partrieve is a perfect example of how our
partners can use search to innovate and differentiate themselves."

Partrieve is immediately available and is sold via Tata Technologies. For
more information, please visit www.Partrieve.com. Exalead Cloudview OEM
Edition is available directly from Exalead. To learn more, please visit
http://www.exalead.com/software/products/cloudview/cloudview-oem-edition/.

About VdR

The vdR Group, Inc. is a privately held software development company
founded in 1986. Its primary focus is the design, development and delivery
of integration technologies and solutions for manufacturing and
engineering environments. Resultant solutions are licensed and/or sold
via selected partners that are leaders in their respective fields.

Today there are an estimated 120,000 users of the Group's solutions. These
integration solutions have touch points to such applications as CAD,
electronic content management (ECM), enterprise resource planning (ERP)
and product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM) solutions.

The Group has defined Product Data Intelligence (PDI) and has
characterized it as the method to help manufacturing and engineering
oriented companies harness the full value of part and product data
regardless of where it resides in the enterprise. By facilitating a
combination of virtual unification of this data, search engine, and
visualization technologies, PDI delivers optimized design and data reuse,
improved time-to-market, and measureable cost savings.

For more information, please visit www.vdR.com.

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead(R) is a global software
provider in the enterprise and Web search markets. Exalead's worldwide
client base includes leading companies such as PriceWaterhouseCooper,
Michelin, and American Greetings, and more than 100 million unique users a
month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the
digital content landscape with a platform, Exalead CloudView(TM) that uses
advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and
accessibility to previously unused or under-utilized data in the
disparate, heterogeneous enterprise information cloud. The system
collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it
into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business
information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the
foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative search-based business
applications.

Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company,
with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Glasgow, Milan and Darmstadt.
Readers who wish to gain more information about Exalead can visit
www.Exalead.com or contact (415) 230 3800.

Media contact
Exalead
Lindsay Mecca
Page One PR
lindsay@pageonepr.com
1.415.321.2343

The vdR Group
Dave Wolfe
1.714.921.9300

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