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www.endeca.com - Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search and information access software company, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2008 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant report(1).

The report "assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include search; federated search content

classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories in order to locate and "invoke" documents, data, e-mail and intelligence."

According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Leaders quadrant "demonstrate significant architectural flexibility. They also have a strong, innovative and broad means of determining relevancy of results to users and providing developers with the flexibility and appropriate tools to tune these relevancy settings. They have the finances to weather hard times and sufficient resources to invest in both organic and inorganic technology and business growth. They also have enough depth and strength to serve as platform vendors whose software can be used to solve most information access problems."

"Enterprises are rapidly shifting from the notion of a single search box on top of vast quantities of data and content towards a common information access infrastructure that enables the rapid development of specialized information access applications. This sea change is based on the increasing demand for new classes of information access applications that can inform daily decision making of thousands if not millions of users," said Steve Papa, chief executive officer of Endeca. "We believe our position in the Leaders quadrant speaks to our continued focus on innovation, our deep investments in new information access application development tools, and the broad applicability of Endeca's technology."

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Endeca

Endeca's innovative information access software helps people explore, analyze, and understand complex information, guiding them to unexpected insights and better decisions. The Endeca Information Access Platform, built around a new class of access-optimized database, powers applications that combine the ease of searching and browsing with the analytical power of business intelligence. More than 500 leading global organizations including ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs, and streamline operations.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.

Endeca and Guided Navigation are registered trademarks, and MDEX Engine and Guided Summarization are trademarks of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.

(1) Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology", by Whit Andrews, published September 30, 2008 by Gartner, Inc.

Endeca
Craig VerColen, 617-674-6190
cvercolen@endeca.com