XIOtech Licenses iXmatch Software

iXmatch Will Provide Advanced Search for New Content Management System

MINNEAPOLIS - October 7, 2003 -- iXmatch Inc., a leading provider of matching, searching, and analytics software, today announced that XIOtech Corporation, a storage networking pioneer, signed an agreement to license its advanced search software. iXmatch will enable XIOtech employees and customers to easily find the information they are seeking.

iXfind, iXmatch's state-of-the-art search engine, incorporates innovative search methods to find, evaluate, and rank the most relevant results. iXfind then puts the content into context by dynamically clustering the search results into groups of similar documents. For example, a search for “magnitude”, XIOtech’s family of storage products, returns thousands of results that are clustered on the fly into contextually-relevant sub-groups such as benefits, configuration, capacity, scalability, and others. Employees and customers can better manage information overload and more easily navigate by selecting relevant content groups.

“Traditional searching no longer works for people serious about finding relevant content,” said Bryan Scheuler, Director of Services, XIOtech. “We selected iXmatch because of its best-in-class technology, high quality results, outstanding performance and ease of integration. iXmatch’s software will enable us to take full advantage of the content we now have available through our new content management system from Einsof. We’re excited about this relationship.”

iXmatch’s software products seamlessly embed a variety of data mining, collaborative filtering and personalization technologies to solve the critical problem of accurately matching people with exactly what they’re looking for. “iXfind was designed from the ground up to integrate with other applications,” said Gopal Sadagopal, iXmatch’s Co-founder and Vice President of Product Development. “We easily integrated it with Einsof to provide an extremely effective solution for XIOtech. This is a perfect application of our software.”

About XIOtech
Since 1995 XIOtech has grown from success to success with double-digit revenue growth per year since 1997 and customers including Warner Bros., Merrill Lynch, Bechtel, Lucent, Andersen, Hibernia Bank, and St. Vincent Hospital. XIOtech has also partnered with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, VERITAS, Brocade, and QLogic. XIOtech has demonstrated technology leadership by chalking up an impressive array of industry firsts: first and ONLY to deliver a storage solution with zero server footprint-continued forward within the clustered storage architecture, distributed storage failover, first to demonstrate Microsoft VSS support, first geographically distributed cluster over Internet Protocol, first wireless SAN, largest database running Oracle9i RAC, first to boot from SAN, first to dynamically expand volumes-without business disruption. XIOtech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, visit www.xiotech.com, email info@xiotech.com, or call toll free 1.866.472.6764.

About iXmatch Inc.
iXmatch provides the world's best searching and matching software products for knowledge management, business intelligence, e-commerce, supply chain management, and human capital management. The company's patented software products maximize profitability and customer satisfaction by accurately matching people to information, customers to products, order loads to trucks, buyers to suppliers, and candidates to jobs. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, iXmatch’s customers include: ShopNBC; Carlson Companies; Broward County, Florida; Thomas Publishing; Sagebrush Corporation; Pro Staff; HighJump Software; the F.W. Webb Company; LogicLibrary; XIOtech; and TrueBeginnings. iXmatch is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Software Products.