Coveo Forms Customer Advisory Board Comprised of Senior Business Leaders and Technology Executives From Leading Global Organizations

CHICAGO, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Coveo, a leading provider of Enterprise Search 2.0 and customer information access solutions today announced the formation of its global customer Advisory Board, and the completion of its inaugural Advisory Board Meeting.  The Coveo Advisory Board is comprised of senior executives from global customer organizations including Yum! Brands, SNC-Lavalin, Trading Technologies, Netezza Corporation, one of the largest insurers in the United States, and several others, who are recognized innovators in the areas of information access, knowledge management, collaboration, and customer service and support.  

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The Coveo Advisory Board provides guidance to Coveo in the development of strategies and solutions to meet the needs of Global 2000 corporations in the areas of enterprise search and information access.  The Advisory Board recently held its first meeting, and was joined by industry analysts from Gartner, IDC and Forrester, who shared insights, market predictions and key trends affecting global organizations seeking to unlock the hidden value of enterprise knowledge and information.

"As Coveo Advisory Board members, we have a unique opportunity to ensure our companies stay on the cutting edge of where Enterprise Search 2.0 technology can take us, which, considering the unrelenting growth of information within our knowledge-intensive industries, is critical to maintaining and growing agility and competitive leadership," said Tina Yarovsky, VP Knowledge and Learning Solutions, Trading Technologies. "The discussions during the recent meeting gave me new insight into how we can further leverage the value of our information assets at Trading Technologies."

"We welcome each of our Advisory Board members and thank them for their strategic contributions to our continued innovation of Enterprise Search 2.0-powered solutions," said Diane Berry, Advisory Board Chair and Coveo Vice President, Marketing and Communication. "Our Advisory Board members are true visionaries who understand the power that unified views of enterprise information can have across their businesses, and the competitive advantages it offers.  We're grateful for the time and commitment they have given us, and we also greatly appreciate the contributions of our industry analyst partners from IDC, Gartner and Forrester."

About Coveo

Coveo is a leader in Enterprise Search 2.0-powered information access solutions. The Coveo Enterprise Search Platform and Customer Information Access Solutions help organizations generate more value from information and knowledge stored across the enterprise, in virtually any system, whether it resides in the cloud or on enterprise servers—all without moving data.  Companies can also get started at no cost, with Coveo Expresso 2.0 Beta, Coveo's free, entry-level enterprise search solution.

With Coveo's unified indexing technology, companies can easily access and consolidate information from heterogeneous systems. Coveo helps companies to Stop Moving Data™ by combining structured and unstructured data from virtually any enterprise system into a central index, and securely presenting the information in composite dashboards, helping to drive more value through multiple business processes. Coveo customers gain a powerful alternative to expensive system integration and are able to harvest existing IT infrastructure while providing actionable insight into information and knowledge. 

Coveo's more than 700 global implementations contribute to the success of, among many others, CA Technologies, Deloitte, GEICO, ESPN, Haley & Aldrich, Lockheed Martin, Odyssey America,  PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rabobank, SNC-Lavalin, Spencer Stuart,  Children's Hospital of Boston, Sony Ericsson, IMS Health, Netezza Corporation, ICBC, The Doctors Company, and Yum! Brands. Information and video demos are available at www.coveo.com.

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