Endeca and SMSi Partner to Provide Greater Visibility Across Enterprise Data and Content for Daily Decision-Making Within the Public Sector

SMSi to Integrate Endeca`s Information Access Platform with SMSi`s Twister Data
Framework for Improved Information Access
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced a
partnership with SMSi, a leader in providing data-management and IT solutions
for the public sector. SMSi has integrated SMSi`s Twister Data Framework with
the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform. Together, these
technologies offer a complete solution for unifying structured and unstructured
data from proprietary, government-specific databases, warehouses, and enterprise
business systems, providing greater visibility across disparate information for
improved daily decision-making within defense, intelligence, and homeland
security agencies.

"The most important trend in the search and BI markets today is the accelerating
pace of their convergence," said Hadley Reynolds, director, Search and Digital
Marketplace Technologies, IDC. "Analysts in the intelligence community have long
insisted on better integrated views of the information at their disposal - views
that allow them to `see' structured transactional data and related unstructured
content at the same time, on the same screen. Alliances like this one between
Endeca and SMSi will accelerate the delivery of composite intelligence
applications that help analysts connect the dots across the data sources."

The partnership allows agencies to leverage industry standard software that is
already integrated with many highly-specialized and often proprietary government
data holdings and feeds to populate search applications based on Endeca`s
Intelligence Discovery Solution. Customers who have the Twister Data Framework
deployed can use the skills they already have in house. Customers who don`t can
tap the large number of consultants already familiar with SMSi`s products. In
all cases, Endeca`s rich feature set around semi-structured content acquisition
and enrichment, recently enhanced with the Endeca Extend partner program, can be
combined with SMSI`s existing offerings, reducing the time and costs associated
with deploying Endeca`s search applications.

"The increasing growth rate of information, its diverse types and locations, and
the scores of proprietary formats in which it can be found often put
organizations that thrive on real-time data in a quandary," said Lang Craighill,
chief operating officer, SMSi. "By creating a seamless integration between our
Twister Data Framework and Endeca`s platform, our customers can better access
highly-valuable and intelligence-centric information assets, leveraging them for
improved daily decision-making."

"SMSi has a proven track record in helping agencies involved in defense,
intelligence, and homeland security leverage their information assets to empower
intelligence analysts," said Jason Purcell, senior vice president of marketing
and product management, Endeca. "This relationship benefits our joint and
prospective customers in the intelligence and government sectors, and
significantly decreases the implementation and operating costs of Endeca-powered
solutions."

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 our
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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