Press Release

Bologna, Italy – June 18, 2009

After being selected as one of the last thirty finalists for the lCT Innovation Award taking place at SMAU Business, Carife won first prize for the best project in the Web 2.0 category.

The award goes to the Organization department of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara for having implemented a project for the ‘reorganization of its information system assets,’ and having provided its employees with critical information for the business in the clearest and most straightforward way, using the company intranet.

"We are proud to have received this award," commented Carife – "And for a project we very much believed in and which clearly shows our willingness to make the most of information as a fundamental asset in the creation of value within a large banking group. These are concerns which are very much in line with the need to have avant-garde technology, which is as flexible as it is capable of managing our security requirements in an unobjectionable manner."

The Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara needed to introduce a tool capable of facilitating and unifying different kinds of searches. Thanks to the implementation of a federated search solution it is now possible to index the hundreds of thousands of documents the bank holds and make them available in real time, with just one query. The new application has resulted in the ability to face and resolve critical situations tied to documentation and information sharing within the organization: it is now possible to search for documents and information from different sources with a simple full text search. The system we chose has confirmed its flexibility in not having to make any changes to existing settings nor pre-set access rules related to individual original sources.

"This award is the culmination of the appreciation we have received in the field on a daily basis from our clients. They are always very surprised that a company solution designed to optimize access to large quantities of information can be so simple to use and quick to implement at the same time," commented Rosagrazia Bombini, the Managing Director of Exalead.

In reality the secret lies in the extreme flexibility of Exalead’s architecture, invented at the intersection of the Web and the enterprise. As a result, it is capable of merging business needs which have always been its core business.

The ICT innovation award is an addition to a long series of awards that Exalead is receiving from specialized magazines, analysts and partners, and which qualify it as a leading platform capable of contextualizing and giving new meaning to any type of information, of any nature, source or extension. This is a need for all modern companies who look towards the future, and like Carife, have shown that they have the vision and acumen to face society’s challenges to information access with a solid, innovative approach.

More about Carife: www.carife.it

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by Search engine pioneers, Exalead® is a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search markets. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCooper, ViaMichelin, GEFCO, American Greetings and Sanofi Pasteur, 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™ that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilised 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 information access applications.

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

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