Basis Technology Named to KMWorld’s "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management"

CAMBRIDGE, MA: February 23, 2006 - Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) has been selected by KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) magazine as one of the “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management”. The KMWorld 100 lists some of the most influential and innovative companies in knowledge management.

“As in previous years, this list was conceived as a way to identify some of the organizations leading the way in the knowledge economy,” said Hugh McKellar, KMWorld’s Editor-in-Chief. “Basis Technology has brought an innovative linguistic strategy that has added depth, accuracy, and value to the global knowledge management community.”

Selected from over 1,500 companies, the list is assembled by KM practitioners, theorists, customers, analysts, and editors. The list will be unveiled in the March issue to generate interest and discussion about knowledge management tools and services. Basis Technology’s Rosette® Linguistics Platform has been a pivotal tool for organizations managing and mining multilingual data.

“Our linguistic expertise and open technology platform has given the knowledge management industry a unique, powerful and customizable approach for capturing and analyzing unstructured text,” said Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology. “We are honored by the achievement which inspires us to continue providing innovative text mining solutions.”

About Basis Technology
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications. The company’s Rosette® Linguistics Platform is a suite of high-performance, robust, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include industry leaders America Online, Cisco, Convera, Endeca, FAST, Google, Hewlett-Packard, L.L Bean, Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, Symantec, Autonomy, and Yahoo. Government contractors include BBN, CACI, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman, and SAIC.

Company headquarters are in Cambridge, MA, with branch offices in San Francisco, CA; Herndon, VA; and Tokyo, Japan. www.basistech.com