Exalead Achieves Significant Milestones in 2007

NEW YORK, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Exalead(R), a global provider of search software for business and the Web, today announced that it achieved several important company milestones during 2007, making it a banner year for growth.

Exalead Customer Base Doubles, Revenue Triples

Most significantly, the company experienced 200 percent growth in revenue due to strong enterprise search software sales for its exalead one:search(TM) product line, which helped to more than double the size of Exalead's worldwide enterprise customer base. New customers include premier online information portals, yellow pages operators and other respected organizations, including Rightmove, tayaIT.com and The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF).

"2007 was a tremendous year for Exalead," said Francois Bourdoncle, co- founder of Exalead S.A. "Looking ahead, we remain focused on accelerating deployments of exalead one:search in Europe and the United States, where we continue to see particularly strong demand for application-neutral, infrastructure-level enterprise search solutions that can be easily customized for a wide range of applications, including hybrid vertical search. We will concentrate on three core market areas in 2008: business-to-business, business-to-business-to-consumer and the OEM channel."

Exalead Expands Partner Footprint

Exalead's powerful unified search technology is especially well-suited to business and competitive intelligence, risk management, litigation and e-mail archiving solutions. In 2007, Exalead signed OEM agreements with Exanet Inc., Knowings SA, H&S Heilig & Schubert Software AG, OneTree Technologies and Messaging Architects. Each has added Exalead's powerful search functionality to their software offerings.

In addition, Exalead forged technology partnerships for its patented Search By Serendipity(TM) technology with LINGWAY, a specialized search engine company that offers solutions based on multilingual semantic components, and TayaIT.com, a new Arabic-language search engine.

"Exalead continues to receive recognition from industry experts and analysts for its unified approach to search," said Alain Cotte, chief executive officer of Exalead S.A. "For the second consecutive year, Exalead was positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, named in KMWorld's 2007 list of the '100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management' and included in the 2007 Software 500."

Additional key highlights include the expansion of Exalead's corporate offices in Europe, specifically with the opening of three new offices in London, Glasgow and Munich.

For more information about Exalead's enterprise search product portfolio, please visit http://corporate.exalead.com.

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for business and the Web. Based on the first and only unified search technology platform for desktop, intranet or Web search, Exalead's products provide users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location. Its patented Search by Serendipity(TM) navigation system adapts to user habits for a less frustrating and uniquely satisfying search experience. The exalead one:search(TM) line of software products -- designed for desktop, workgroup, enterprise, datacenter and Web environments - - are in use by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing and telecommunications companies around the world. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, New York, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Munich. For more information, please visit http://corporate.exalead.com.

Exalead, exalead one:search and Search by Serendipity are registered trademarks or trademarks of Exalead SA. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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