Coveo and Blackstone Technology Group Announce Reseller Agreement

Blackstone to add Coveo Enterprise Search to its Offerings in its Infrastructure Services Group

Quebec City, Canada; Palo Alto, California - Sept 19, 2006 -Coveo Solutions Inc., a leading provider of secure search for the enterprise, today announced that Blackstone Technology Group has signed to be a Coveo sales partner.

"Our Infrastructure Services business focuses on offering technology and services with high value and minimal maintenance," said Jason Ambrose, Director of Infrastructure Services, Blackstone Technology Group. "Coveo Enterprise Search has a number of unique features that provide exceptionally relevant and comprehensive search results that our clients have found to be invaluable. Coveo Enterprise Search adds compelling value to our packaged offerings involving Microsoft Sharepoint."

Blackstone Technology Group, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Partner, supports three main divisions - Consulting, Infrastructure Services and Consultant Staffing. Blackstone's Infrastructure Services business delivers IT products and services that support Microsoft's full line of business applications, and will now include Coveo Enterprise Search (CES). In addition to CES installation and implementation services, Blackstone will offer project management services around enterprise search initiatives for intranets, file systems, knowledge management portals, and integration with custom applications.

"Coveo Enterprise Search is well suited for a distribution channel," said Laurent Simoneau, President and CEO, Coveo Solutions Inc. "Our product delivers immediate value, short implementation time, and enables resellers and systems integrators to expand, or offer new services on key business initiatives such as knowledge management, compliance and organizational processes."

About Blackstone Technology Group

The Blackstone Technology Group is a privately-held solutions consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco CA with corporate offices in Washington DC, Denver CO, and Tokyo, Japan. At Blackstone, our mission is to implement innovative information technology solutions that help industry leaders address business challenges and transformation in their competitive industry markets.

Our services are centered on three main business areas:

  • Enterprise Consulting - Large, project-based engagements involving custom application development, system integration, or PMO implementation and management;
  • Staff Augmentation - Sourcing of temporary contractors for short-term needs of specific skill sets;
  • Infrastructure Services - Services to design, implement and support core IT technologies.

With these business areas, Blackstone provides a full spectrum of IT consulting services and can help clients of all sizes achieve focused results - clients such as AT&T, PG&E, CSAA, WageWorks, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Providian.

For more information about Blackstone's services, please visit www.bstonetech.com.

About Coveo Solutions Inc.

Find information. Understand Information. Act -- much faster. Based on industry standard ASP and .NET technologies, and winner of the 2006 Microsoft Partner Regional Winning Customer Award, Coveo Enterprise Search delivers the best value in the marketplace with out-of-the-box document level security, unparalleled accuracy, consumer style ease of use, and an implementation cycle of less than 24 hours. Whether it's to meet regulatory compliance, improve customer response, protect intellectual property or improve organizational efficiencies up to 35%, Coveo Enterprise Search enables organizations to find, understand and take action on critical information located anywhere in the enterprise. Coveo's enterprise clients include AAA, AMN Healthcare, Eli Lilly, Fannie Mae, International Paper, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NASA, AC Nielsen, Nutreco, and Verizon.

For more information, and to test drive Coveo Enterprise Search free for 30 days, please visit www.coveo.com.