WeddingChannel.com Selects Verity to Deliver Most Complete Wedding Planning Experience
Verity K2 Toolkit Delivers Relevant Information to Brides, Grooms and Wedding Guests
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - 2000-05-11 - Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise and Internet knowledge retrieval solutions, today announced that WeddingChannel.com, the Internet's most comprehensive bridal registry and wedding planning resource, has selected Verity to deliver sophisticated and high-performance knowledge retrieval to its customers. Verity K2 Toolkit provides WeddingChannel.com visitors with easy-to-use, highly navigable tools that help streamline the wedding planning process. Verity's proven search and retrieval technology assists brides, grooms and wedding guests in finding the information they need, quickly and easily.
"WeddingChannel.com delivers a unique and content-rich experience for its customers," said Anthony Bettencourt, president of Verity. "Highly scalable and precise information retrieval contributes to the success of their Web site. We're extremely pleased that WeddingChannel.com selected Verity K2 Toolkit as the strategic element that enables site visitors to quickly find the relevant information they need for their important wedding decisions."
WeddingChannel.com is the world's definitive marketplace for weddings, connecting engaged couples and their guests with planning resources, vendors, and the gift registries of premier retailers. The site is the most comprehensive resource for finding and purchasing everything needed to create the ideal wedding experience. Its superior content includes an extensive amount of articles that range from diamond certification information to financial planning, insurance, home ownership, and communication techniques. This abundant data makes the customer's experience complete because they get all the information they need to make informed decisions about both purchases and the entire wedding planning process. WeddingChannel.com has also enlisted the aid of several renowned experts in the field, including Linnyette Richardson-Hall, a recognized expert in African-American, Caribbean, and southern U.S. traditions, Peggy Post, the etiquette authority, and Beverly Clark, a leading name in wedding accessories and bridal consulting, to provide expertise online. Verity K2 Toolkit enables customers to search this combination of proprietary and third party content quickly and easily, providing the most relevant data to support their purchase and planning decisions.
According to Greg Franchina, chief information officer of WeddingChannel.com, "With over a million unique users per month, WeddingChannel.com attracts more bridal traffic than any other wedding Website. Due to the vast amount of content on the site, our mission was to make our site as user-friendly and easy to navigate as possible. The Verity K2 Toolkit is an important component of our solution, making it easy for anyone involved in a wedding, from the bride to the guests, to gain quick access to the information they need. Not only is Verity's technology top-notch, but it is a cost-effective and easily customizable solution, and it includes excellent customer support."
About Verity K2 Toolkit
Verity K2 Toolkit allows brokered search across multiple servers and multiple CPUs to provide the most relevant search results from many information sources without sacrificing the speed or accuracy of the results displayed. As the number of users, queries, or amount of data increases, K2 applications can keep pace with increased demands by adding new CPUs or servers to the network without bringing down the application. Providing 24x7 fault tolerant operations, the Verity K2 Toolkit isolates failures of individual nodes or servers from the rest of the system, ensuring that applications are available when they are needed.
The Verity K2 Toolkit supports tight integration with both COM and Java‘object models, allowing easy integration across a wide range of application servers and Java‘ environments. With industry-standard C language APIs, Verity's K2 Toolkit helps speed application deployment and gives corporate accounts added flexibility in application development, especially for e-commerce and business-to-business application solutions.
About WeddingChannel.com
WeddingChannel.com (www.weddingchannel.com) is the world's definitive marketplace for weddings, connecting engaged couples and their guests with planning resources, vendors, and the gift registries of premier retailers. Offering engaged couples a complete menu of wedding-related services, including personalized web pages, planning tools, e-commerce, online travel planning, local business directories and the largest database of bridal fashions, WeddingChannel.com is the most comprehensive wedding planning resource available today. The company has exclusive, strategic relationships with the leaders in bridal registry, including Federated Department Stores, Inc. (the parent company of Bloomingdale's, The Bon Marché, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's, Rich's and Stern's), Tiffany & Co., Crate and Barrel, Neiman Marcus, Williams-Sonoma, Dillard's, Restoration Hardware, REI, Gump's and many more. Through these relationships, WeddingChannel.com offers couples the best selection of branded gifts to add to their registries and provides wedding guests with a convenient way to find couples' registries and purchase gifts online. WeddingChannel.com is a private company whose investors include Amazon.com, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Federated Department Stores, Inc., Goldman Sachs, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., idealab!, The Neiman Marcus Group, Trinity Ventures, Tiffany & Co., RRE Investors, MSD Capital, Crate and Barrel, and Williams-Sonoma.
About Verity
Verity is a leading provider of knowledge retrieval solutions. Verity's product suite powers corporate portals, e-commerce sites, online publishing and media sites, customer care applications, and products from market-leading OEMs and ISVs. Verity solutions simplify the management and use of information by indexing, classifying, organizing, searching and retrieving data, as well as providing personalized information delivery and hybrid online and CD publishing.
Verity's products are used by more than 1,000 corporations, e-commerce sites, government agencies, online service providers, Internet publishers and software developers worldwide. Verity alliances include Adobe Systems, AT&T, CDNOW, CNET, Cisco, Compaq, Dow Jones, Easy Software, EarthWeb, Ernst & Young, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, IBM, MD Consult, NewsEdge Corporation, Informix, Lotus, NEC, SAP, Siemens, Snap.com, Sybase and Time New Media.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its Verity K2 Toolkit products. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties. Risks relating to Verity and its products are set forth in its Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.
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