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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 Rightmove, Lagardere, Yakaz 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 that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilized information direct from CMS or crawled from the Web. 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 decision intelligence applications. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris,San Francisco, Glasgow,London, Milan and Darmstadt.

Mondeca is a leader in Semantic Web technology and ITM T3, the company's flagship product for metadata, taxonomy, thesaurus, terminology, and ontology management. ITM T3 can be found in production environments in industries that include legal services, health/medicine/pharmaceutical information, defense, government, tourism, and more. In each of these industries, companies and governmental agencies create high quality content, information, and knowledge as a part of their mission. It isn't easy to meet the challenge of assimilating wide ranging sources of information, organizing this information, and then creating and/or publishing new information that can be easily used by all target audiences.

In each area, whether it's taxonomy, ontology, thesaurus, terminology, or others supported by ITM T3, Mondeca provides specialized Web-based tools that are highly scalable and team-oriented. The net effect is extremely powerful, which is why Mondeca has an outstanding record of success with demanding, high profile customers.  Based on SOA architecture, ITM T3 is easy to integrate with search engines and content management systems.

Founded in 2005, Quintura http://affiliates.quintura.com/ offers a visual-based hosted site search, analytics and monetization solution to online content publishers. The Quintura's patented search technology is based on more than a decade of research in the area of neural networks. Quintura works with web publishers and online content owners to provide an easier and more relevant in-site search experience. In September 2008, PCMag.com named Quintura one of the top 10 Favorite Alternative Search Technologies. Quintura, Inc. is a U.S. company, which is funded by Mangrove Capital Partners, with research and development offices near Moscow, Russia.

Quintura also offers Quintura Kids, quinturakids.com, a safe, fun and easy-to-use search destination for younger Internet users.  

Quintura Site Search features an interactive search cloud of related keywords/phrases to easily refine searching and navigate search results. The consumer magazine brands Cosmopolitan, ComputerBild, Russian Newsweek, Hilary Magazine use Quintura to power visual-based search on their magazine web-sites. Among its new enterprise customers is Solvay Pharma. Over 2,000 online content publishers have registered to use the site search solution from Quintura. Quintura Site Search includes online search analytics and display (banner) ads-insertion option for all of its affiliates.

Quintura Site Search is free for web publishers through an advertising revenue-sharing agreement and is also available on a subscription basis.

Gold Sponsor

Mark Logic Corporation is the provider of the industry's leading XML server. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, allows customers to store, manage, search and dynamically deliver content. The company has two patents on its innovative technology and is privately held with Sequoia Capital as its lead investor. Mark Logic has garnered several industry awards and recently been named the fourth fastest growing Silicon Valley Software and Information Technology (IT) company in Deloitte's Technology 2008 Fast 50 Program based on high growth in revenues. To read the Mark Logic CEO Blog, visit http://marklogic.blogspot.com. To learn more about Mark Logic, or to download a free community or trial edition of MarkLogic Server, go to www.marklogic.com.