Press Release

San Francisco, CA – November 25, 2009

EVER TEAM, the leading European vendor of integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, and Exalead, a global leader of Information Access Solutions and search-based applications for the enterprise announced today the signature of a Reseller Agreement.: Under the terms of the agreement, EVER TEAM MEA (Middle East and Africa), a Subsidiary of EVER TEAM, will sell and support Exalead CloudView solution throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Exalead's CloudView is an easy-to-use platform for creating search-based applications that access both structured (databases and data from any applications) and unstructured (instant messages, emails, web pages, and multimedia) data. With its innovative architecture, the CloudView platform provides core search solutions, which are feature rich and extremely easy to implement, thus providing a perfect combination of reduced administration costs and a better search experience for customers.

Through this partnership, EVER TEAM MEA will expand its product line by enhancing its world class ECM solutions EVER SUITE with Exalead CloudView platform, and as well provide its Customers with a worldwide leading brand new solution.

"With the rapid information diffusion and ongoing technological innovation, EVER TEAM MEA is taking a proactive approach in adapting to changes which are shaping the ECM industry," said Toni Azzi, Executive Manager of EVER TEAM MEA, "It can be strongly argued today that the future of ECM is mostly stimulated by the need to extend ECM platforms with comprehensive and specialized Information Access Solutions such as Exalead’s platform CloudView. Our partnership with Exalead will enable us to offer in Middle East and Africa, the next generation of applications, which leverage performance, usability and agility of the web, into the Enterprise context and constraints".

Exalead will benefit of an enhanced proximity in the Middle East and Africa, through the "First Level" consultancy, implementation and support services of EVER TEAM MEA. "We see a vast range of fruitful and short term opportunities arising in this region, and are pleased to strengthen our presence through a leading vendor such as EVER TEAM MEA. Our clients will now be able to benefit at the same time of proximity and quality of customer support of EVER TEAM MEA, and best of breed technologies for heterogeneous content sources access", stated Alain Cotte, Exalead CEO.

About EVER TEAM

EVER TEAM is the leading European software vendor in the field of integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and the only European software vendor to feature in the "Magic Quadrant" of ECM solutions, published by Gartner. EVER TEAM products include EverSuite SharePoint Edition, which provides Microsoft Customers with a full ECM capability and Content Enabled Vertical Applications built on MS SharePoint, as well as EverSuite ECM Suite and Flora business applications which are built on a common J2EE ECM technology platform.

Thanks to their core functionality of content production, capture, processing, classification and archiving, these offerings satisfy a wide spectrum of business needs, ranging from the management of customer files and case management to applications that meet the needs of specific vertical markets such as finance, education, local and central government.
EVER TEAM has over 250 employees with subsidiaries in Spain and the Middle East and a large network of integration and distribution partners. The Group’s software solutions have been deployed on over 1600 sites worldwide.

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.

Readers who wish to gain more information about Exalead can contact:
Dominique Topalov, Exalead
dtopalov@exalead.com
Tel: 303.462.3057