Press Release

Glasgow, UK – November 20, 2009

Exalead, a global provider of search-based business application (SBA) technology, today announced that Digirati, a leading edge Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions and consultancy provider, entered into a strategic partnership to provide Exalead's CloudView product and search based applications.

"Digirati is an independent consultancy: we apply objective processes to get the best possible results for clients," explained Managing Director, John Baker. "Exalead is a radically progressive developer offering leading edge technology and a very attractive licensing model for our clients. Our new partnership is a direct reflection of our rigorous technical and commercial approach to ensuring that our clients can access the best search based applications and technology available."

Digirati will provide out of the box software and collaborate with Exalead in the development and implementation of bespoke search based applications. It is currently evaluating the use of Exalead technology with a number of clients looking to develop consolidated information management systems, including local and national government bodies, in data-driven education and media contexts.

"Our ability to offer Exalead means that we can offer unparalleled speed and ease of integration coupled with a very low cost-per-search, factors often critical to the success of a project," concluded Baker. "Exalead's pedigree in web search applications and the technical excellence of CloudView, it's core offering, mean that we are now in an even stronger position to address our clients needs with robust and flexible stable of technologies."

"Digirati is a highly respected independent consultancy, with whom we are very pleased to collaborate," said Exalead's UK Managing Director, Raymond Bentinck. "We add significantly to the options, both off the shelf and bespoke, that Digirati can offer to clients. Search based applications are the future of search, enabling businesses to continue to innovate and thrive in a very competitive landscape. They are meeting businesses' needs for better operational decision making and competitive differentiation."

About Digirati

Originally formed by Content Management specialists in 2002, Digirati's focus is to stay abreast of these developments offering leading edge Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions and consultancy services. These services currently focus on the delivery of content management, enterprise search, collaboration, license management and intelligent tagging solutions. Digirati build tailored solutions where appropriate and partner with best of breed software vendors who have been selected to provide a comprehensive range of functionalities to meet varying client requirements.

We have developed tailored methodologies and services to ensure consistent professional delivery of our extensive management, technical and creative expertise. Our services engage at every stage of a project lifespan from project initiation to analysis, visualisation, design, implementation and support. With many EIM projects failing in the field, the concept of Digirati was based on the need for consultancy services using tried and tested methodologies that offer the certainty that a project will be completed on time, within budget and matching client expectations.

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.

Media contacts

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