Charlotte, N.C., April 12, 2004 - Venetica, the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software, today announced that it has partnered with Verity Inc. to enable organizations to combine the benefits of enterprise search technology with the power of enterprise content integration capabilities.

As part of the announcement, Venetica announced general availability of the Content Bridge for the Verity K2 intellectual capital management solution. This Bridge will allow applications using Venetica’s VeniceBridge ECI platform to leverage any enterprise content that has been indexed with Verity, including content stored in file systems and intranets. While many organizations have some of their content stored in document management or imaging systems, a large percentage of content remains unmanaged, sitting on file servers and intranets. Often, these organizations will leverage search and classification technology, such as that available from Verity, to index such content and make it easier to find the documents they are looking for. Using Venetica’s enterprise content integration capabilities, authorized users can leverage a real-time, virtual view of enterprise content from their VeniceBridge enabled application. They can act on and work directly with content, make changes or update it, and then save it back to the system of record where it was stored.

The ability to seamlessly leverage managed and unmanaged content improves enterprise information visibility, increases user productivity and reduces business cycles - critical components of enterprise initiatives such as customer service and regulatory compliance.“Organizations struggle to find ways of coping with the diversity of content and process they have throughout the enterprise,” said Eric Sall, vice president of marketing, Venetica. “Coupling Verity’s powerful search and classification capabilities with the rich, interactive content functionality of VeniceBridge creates a powerful platform for many business-critical applications.”

“Content integration can help companies leverage the vast amount of content that resides within their organizations,” said Brian Di Silvestro, Director of business development at Verity. “We’re pleased to partner with Venetica so that our customers can now integrate enterprise search and classification into a wide variety of applications.”

Venetica provides customers with a single interface to content across disparate environments. Unlike other offerings that create copies of documents and meta-data, Venetica solutions provide a real-time virtual view of content and workflow in place. Venetica’s approach exposes the full, two-way functionality of underlying content management and workflow systems, respects the security of those systems and adds cross-system services such as event-based notification. Venetica provides tools to easily develop enterprise applications that connect to any content system, and out-of-the-box bridges to leading systems such as those from Documentum, FileNet, IBM, Lotus Notes, Microsoft and Open Text.

Verity K2 Enterprise enables global organizations of all sizes to identify, manage and utilize the information contained in their digital and human assets to realize competitive advantages such as increased productivity, shortened business cycles, and expanded sales and revenue. It fully integrates search, classification and personalization capabilities for enterprise portals to uncover vast amounts of information and data residing in both internal and external repositories. K2 Enterprise is a fault-tolerant, highly scalable solution that delivers a host of other advanced search capabilities, such as adaptive ranking, support for 26 languages, as well as comprehensive gateway support to leading information repositories.

About Venetica Venetica is the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software. The company's flagship product, VeniceBridge®, enables multiple, disparate content repositories to work as a single unified system. By providing a real-time, virtual interface to enterprise content and business process, Venetica helps companies reduce the cost and complexity of business critical initiatives such as improving customer service, complying with regulations and consolidating operations following a merger. Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver solutions around the world.