Excalibur Technologies, a leading provider of knowledge retrieval and media asset management solutions, and StorageTek have announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar licensing, development and distribution agreement.
The comprehensive agreement gives StorageTek immediate rights to bundle Excalibur`s advanced search and retrieval products with its high-performance network storage products and then sell the packages as enhanced solutions for knowledge management and digital content management initiatives.
Under the agreement, StorageTek gains distribution rights for the full Excalibur product line, including Excalibur RetrievalWare and the new Excalibur Screening Room product.
The agreement also calls for the two companies to establish a joint development lab located in Louisville, Colorado, and staffed by full-time Excalibur and StorageTek engineers dedicated to the effort. The lab will closely integrate StorageTek products with Excalibur`s advanced products for crawling, indexing, searching, retrieving and distributing all enterprise digital content, to create advanced solutions that make enterprise-wide information assets easier to archive, access and leverage.
These solutions, including related technical services such as installation, planning and media conversion, will be focused on StorageTek`s target vertical markets, and sold by StorageTek worldwide.
StorageTek will begin distributing Excalibur Screening Room and Excalibur RetrievalWare immediately. Excalibur Screening Room, a new product, is an advanced end-to-end solution for realtime capturing, analysing, cataloguing, browsing, searching, and retrieving video over corporate intranets and extranets.
Excalibur RetrievalWare is an enterprise-wide retrieval system that enables users to index, search and retrieve information assets throughout the enterprise. It excels in distributed client/server environments with thousands of users, documents, images and multiple data types.
"In our drive to help customers leverage the power of their data, we are committed to providing enterprise content management solutions that enable the most efficient and effective use of all types of information," says Jean Reiczyk, VP and GM of StorageTek`s Solutions Business Group. "Excalibur`s advanced text and visual retrieval applications are a perfect fit and will help meet our customers growing demand for accuracy and scalability across all data types."
"This is the largest deal in the history of Excalibur, and one we expect to lead to the creation of breakthrough solutions for information management," says Pat Condo, president and CEO of Excalibur. "This represents a major milestone in the validation of Excalibur`s products and technology. We believe these solutions will revolutionise the way the world`s information is managed across the enterprise."
* StorageTek products are represented in South Africa by MGX Holdings company CMS.
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