PSA Peugeot Citroen Selects Convera's RetrievalWare for Extranet and Enterprise-Wide Intranet Initiative
VIENNA, Va.--Dec. 10, 2002--60,000 Employees in 140 Countries Benefit from Fast, Accurate Access
to Multilingual Corporate Data
Convera today announced that PSA Peugeot Citroen Group, the world's sixth largest automobile manufacturer, is using Convera's RetrievalWare(R) search, retrieval and categorization technology to provide 60,000 employees in 140 countries with simple and secure access to a vast array of multilingual documents stored on its corporate Intranet.
RetrievalWare also has been deployed on the company's Extranet site and is used by nearly 40,000 partners and customers. The contract was awarded after an evaluation process in which Convera and eight other vendors were compared and judged using 150 different selection criteria.
"We selected Convera's RetrievalWare solution because it is modular and scalable. Its search capacities are based on quality semantic networks and its technology is outstanding when it comes to finding answers to imprecise queries," explains Michel Raulet, Project Manager of the PSA Skill Centre.
Prior to the installation of RetrievalWare, the PSA Peugeot Citroen Group maintained more than 200 Intranet sites around the world. With RetrievalWare, employees are now able to use a single log-on to search for documents across all the Intranet sites. Company statistics show that on average PSA carried out 1,700 searches a day with 20 searches per minute at peak times.
At its peak, one search per second was recorded.
About Convera's RetrievalWare
RetrievalWare is a high-performance multimedia, cross- and multi-lingual search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets.
RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text, video, image and audio files, HTML, XML, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems), relational database tables, document management systems, and groupware repositories.
Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching, and query-by-example. RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with thousands of users, documents, images, and/or multiple media assets.
About Convera
Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare(R) solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages.
More than 750 customers in over 29 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more.
For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com.
About PSA Peugeot Citroen
PSA Peugeot Citroen, strengthened by its two broad line brands, is ranked number two of carmakers in Europe with a market share of 15 % in 2001. Based in more than 140 countries all over the world, the group sold 3.1 million vehicles in 2001 and has set a sales target of 3.5 million vehicles for 2004.
Ranked number six worldwide, PSA Peugeot Citroen has enjoyed the strongest organic growth in the last four years. The group's objective is to launch 25 new models between 2001 and 2004, compared with 9 between 1997 and 2000. For more information, visit the website: http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com.
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