Exalead Fuels Ecosystem for Search-Based Applications With New North American Partner Program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
Exalead, a global provider of search-based business application (SBA)
technology, today introduced its North American Partner Program, designed
to foster an ecosystem of business applications built on Exalead's
award-winning CloudView information access platform. Resellers, systems
integrators (SIs), implementation partners and specialty services firms
can take advantage of CloudView to differentiate their offerings with
purpose-built search-based applications that deliver better value to their
customers.

Today, more than 200 companies run CloudView search-based applications
used by over 100 million unique users per month. With this new program,
Exalead is extending the power of its search platform to more users in
more specialized scenarios where a general purpose Web search engine isn't
enough.

"Over the last few years, Exalead's customers have demonstrated just how
powerful search technology can be in reinventing business requirements
such as knowledge management, business intelligence, and data
integration," said Ranjeet Vidwans, Vice President of Business
Development for Exalead. "Search-based applications enable immediate
action and decision-making as opposed to merely providing more content
for research. As such, we believe the demand for search-based
applications will only increase as companies seek innovative ways to
better solve specific business needs. By creating this ecosystem of
valued partners, we will be able to meet these market demands and
ultimately drive customer satisfaction."

Building a partner portfolio that is diverse enough to satisfy the broad
needs of the market is a crucial goal of the program. As a partner,
qualifying firms have access to benefits such as partner-specific
training, technical and business resources, early access to new product
releases and assistance in developing their own information access
practices built around Exalead technology. In addition, the program
offers a wide range of business arrangements from skills certification
and services subcontracting to referral and reseller agreements. This
degree of flexibility ensures that Exalead's prospective clients can work
with the provider of their choice, while still availing themselves of the
company's market-leading search-based application technology.

"We are working with Exalead on behalf of a number of clients at their
request," said Miles Kehoe, president of New Idea Engineering, a firm
specializing in the business and technology of enterprise search. "Our
customers all require quick access to information for business decisions,
but each also has a unique, varied and complex set of search needs. Our
partnership with Exalead allows us to offer a flexible, scalable search
tool that can be easily tailored to meet the specific demands of our
clients."

Marc Pageau, CEO of Norconex, an Ottawa-based search services consultancy,
further added: "Exalead's unique approach to search via customizable
search-based applications offers clear value to our customers, but what
really makes Exalead stand out is how easy it is to work with them. Their
responsiveness to us as a partner and the clients ensures that we will
enjoy a fruitful relationship going forward."

In many cases, clients need very specific types of assistance that
requires partners with specialized and deep skill-sets in areas such as
taxonomy design, UI customization, and performance optimization. KAPS
Group is one such partner that Exalead has brought on board. CEO and
chief knowledge architect Tom Reamy commented: "Clients frequently turn
to us to help them develop new content organization capabilities
including taxonomies, faceted metadata and auto-categorization
implementations for their unique needs. Exalead provides us with the
framework to plug in whatever taxonomy we feel best suits the needs of
the customer, whether it be completely custom or implemented through a
third-party taxonomy product."

Exalead's North American Partner Program is currently open to qualified
resellers, SIs, implementation partners, and specialty services firms. For
more information, please visit http://www.exalead.com/software/partners/.
To learn more about search-based applications, visit http://bit.ly/rLUpx
to hear Exalead partners and customers discuss the business benefits of
building and utilizing tailor-made applications on CloudView.

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
Lindsay Mecca
Page One PR, for Exalead
lindsay@pageonepr.com
1.415.321.2343

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