EasyAsk's Search and Navigation Capabilities Expands Information Access Throughout the EnterpriseLeading Software Companies Incorporate EasyAsk into Enterprise Offerings to Simplify and Improve Information Access and Increase Company Productivity LITTLETON, Mass., Jan. 13, 2003 -- EasyAsk, the market leader in intuitive information access solutions, announced today that three additional enterprise application providers are incorporating EasyAsk's advanced search, navigation and business intelligence capability into their applications. NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, PDS and Callidus Software are offering EasyAsk's innovative and intuitive technology to their customers' management and professional users, making the application databases directly accessible without technical training or assistance. EasyAsk's search and navigation capability, powered by deep linguistic processing, intelligently interprets an enterprise user's question, dynamically generates a query, and then produces a report, a personal email alert, a chart or an analysis. EasyAsk accesses information from a wide array of information sources, including enterprise applications, corporate databases and data warehouses, and can retrieve information stored in a variety of text formats as well, including PDF and HTML. Organizations also realize tremendous productivity and cost savings with EasyAsk since they no longer have to divert IT staff to create queries for users; EasyAsk enables users to quickly and easily create their own customized requests and reports. NextGen Healthcare Information Systems NextGen Healthcare Information Systems (http://www.nextgen.com), a rapidly growing subsidiary of Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: QSII), provides software applications that address the practice management and electronic medical record needs of healthcare organizations. To help both administrative and medical staff more easily access patient records, financial information, and other valuable data, NextGen integrated EasyAsk into its NextGen EPM(R) and NextGen EMR(R) software offerings. According to Pat Cline, president of NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, "By integrating EasyAsk into our products, we'll help our customers get more out of their NextGen software solutions. EasyAsk's natural-language capability increases the number of employees that can access and create reports on their own, without the help of the IT department." Callidus Software Callidus Software (http://www.callidussoftware.com) is another enterprise application provider realizing the benefits of EasyAsk's advanced search and navigation platform. Callidus develops enterprise incentive management (EIM) software that automates management of "marketplace pay-for-performance" programs used to drive corporate revenues. As part of the AskIt(TM) module in Callidus' TrueComp(TM) 3.0 and TruePortal, EasyAsk allows managers and administrators to search through compensation data to align sales and channel activity to meet corporate goals and strategic objectives. EasyAsk enables Callidus users to generate reports using plain English and their company's own terminology, dramatically reducing the learning curve and the amount of time required to gain access to business critical information. "EasyAsk has significantly enhanced TrueComp's report-generation capabilities," said Reed Taussig, CEO of Callidus Software. "Users can now create reports and find information on-demand by simply typing in a natural- language query. This ease-of-use allows our customers to roll out the TrueComp application to a wider community of users, providing a quicker and greater return on investment." PDS Software PDS (http://www.pdssoftware.com), a developer of Web-based human-resources applications for middle-tier businesses, integrated EasyAsk into its award- winning Vista product suite. Vista provides organizations with a customizable human resources management system with components for human resources benefits, payroll, applicants, employee self-service, flexible spending accounts (FSA) claims, third-party processing, CTS tax filing and other HR- related functions. EasyAsk allows administrators to quickly and easily retrieve the information they need for day-to-day business questions. "Vista users have been thrilled with the addition of EasyAsk to our product suite," said Charles Jefferies, president and CEO of PDS. "Prior to EasyAsk, less tech-savvy users struggled with pulling information from our database tables. EasyAsk has greatly simplified the process, making it much easier for more employees to access the information they need in a timely manner." About EasyAsk EasyAsk is the leading provider of intuitive information access solutions that empower enterprise users to quickly find and retrieve critical business information. Powered by a unique linguistic capability, EasyAsk's sophisticated search and navigation platform accesses both structured and unstructured data, intelligently interpreting users' queries to find accurate and complete results with unprecedented efficiency. Leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies such as Lands' End, Siemens Medical Systems (SMS) and Glaxo SmithKline use EasyAsk's technology. In addition to dozens of direct customers, over 100 companies have acquired EasyAsk's core technology. Strategic partners include IBM -- where EasyAsk is a preferred provider of IBM's Websphere Commerce Group -- and SAIC. Leading investors include Sigma Partners and Flagship Ventures. EasyAsk is headquartered outside of Boston with sales and support offices in San Francisco and London. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.easyask.com or contact us at 1-800-425-8200.
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