Endeca CEO Steve Papa to Speak at Web-Enabled Government Conference

Search Expert to Discuss How Enhanced Information Access Can Unlock the Full Potential of eGovernment

Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, Mass., February 3, 2004 Endeca, the only provider of advanced search and Guided Navigation solutions, announced today that Steve Papa, Endeca's founder and CEO, will be an education session speaker at the 2004 Web-Enabled Government conference, taking place February 4-5, 2004, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. Papa's presentation, entitled "Unlocking the value in eGovernment using next-generation information retrieval techniques," will detail how new advances in search technology can help government organizations improve efficiencies in existing applications and benefit from enhanced information access.

WHO: Steve Papa, CEO and founder, Endeca

WHAT: Presentation: Unlocking the value in eGovernment using next-generation information retrieval techniques

WHEN: Thursday, February 5, 2004 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST

WHERE: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, DC

The Web-Enabled Government Conference sponsored by the eGov Institute is a comprehensive two-day event that is a must-attend for public sector professionals - from federal civilian and defense branches as well as state and local governments - who build, support, and manage web-enabled programs and are actively exploring, planning, and implementing online government service-delivery initiatives throughout their public sector organizations.

Endeca Search and Guided Navigation solutions help public and private sector companies and organizations address the information overload problems associated with enterprise content and catalog information access and retrieval. Endeca solutions are built on innovative technology that makes it possible for the first time to offer search and navigation on structured and unstructured information with high performance, and low total cost of ownership, even at massive scale.

About Endeca

Endeca offers innovative Endeca 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, a winner of Computerworld’s 2003 Innovative Technology Award, is already at work for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble, Putnam Investments, and Arrow Electronics. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. This search and navigation technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Knowledge Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), customer self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner. For more information, visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.