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2008 Press Release

NavigationArts and Coveo Announce Strategic Partnership

MCLEAN, VIRGINIA, February 11, 2008 – Coveo Solutions, Inc., and NavigationArts today announced a strategic partnership between the companies. Through this partnership, Coveo, a global provider of secure, enterprise search solutions, and NavigationArts, a leading Web consultancy specializing in user-centered design, content management, and development, will collaborate to deliver sophisticated, platform-class search solutions that improve the overall user experience while connecting users to the critical information they need.

As “Architects of the User Experience,” NavigationArts provides professional services to help clients plan, evaluate, design, and develop effective websites, intranets, portals, and rich internet applications. NavigationArts creates exceptional online user experiences that drive business value for communications and commerce. The firm’s pioneering techniques for user-centered design and development result in compelling and rich websites for their clients.

Coveo Enterprise Search empowers people to quickly and securely access the knowledge they need to drive business while increasing their return on investment. By accurately retrieving the most hard-to-find information, including audio and video, and by tightly integrating with today’s most powerful enterprise solutions, Coveo Enterprise Search offers businesses a robust and independent layer on top of their existing information repositories.

“Effective search functionality is more important now that many users rely on search as a navigation tool for information online and throughout their enterprises,” said Leo Mullen, CEO of NavigationArts. “We have been working closely with Coveo for the past year and our joint customers have benefited from the relationship. NavigationArts clients, such as the U.S. Department of State, have dramatically improved their search functionality through user research, improved site architecture, and by incorporating Coveo Enterprise Search.”

“Coveo Enterprise Search differentiates itself in the marketplace by providing businesses with 24 hour implementation, document-level security, consumer-style ease of use, and unparalleled accuracy in connecting people with a greater amount of knowledge to more effectively drive business,” said Laurent Simoneau, Coveo’s president and CEO. “Our partnership with NavigationArts enables us to further improve upon the incredible user experience for which our customers continually commend us.”

Noted by IDC as one of the Top 10 Companies to Watch in Canada, Coveo is driving a market that is considered a gate keeper to unleashing business success. With a business initiative focused on collaboration and a radical approach to deploying enterprise search, Coveo’s search technology also delivers proven organizational efficiencies for knowledge management, risk management, IP protection, compliance and improved customer experience.

About Coveo Solutions, Inc.

Coveo offers search solutions that empower people to securely access the critical knowledge they need. Whether it's to meet regulatory compliance, improve customer response, protect intellectual property or improve organizational efficiencies, Coveo's enterprise search technology enables organizations to find, understand and act on critical information located anywhere in the enterprise. A sampling of Coveo's enterprise clients include: HP, Procter & Gamble, CA, Rabobank, PwC, Deloitte, Nomura, National Grid, AMN Healthcare, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NASA, AC Nielsen, US Navy, Yellow Pages Group (Canada), Haley & Aldrich, Michigan State Appellate Defenders Office and ESPN.

About NavigationArts

NavigationArts is a user experience consultancy that provides Internet strategy, usability, information architecture, interface design, content management, and development services. The firm creates exceptional online user experiences that drive business value for communications and commerce.