Convera and IXOS Software Inc. announced a new partnership designed to assist enterprise customers in managing large volumes of business documents and email communications. IXOS will sell Converas RetrievalWare search and categorization software as an optional component of the IXOS-eCONserver product. The combined solution will add Converas search capabilities to enable customers to retrieve email messages, attachments and other business documents from the IXOS-eCONserver archive for a variety of purposes, including records management, discovery and general knowledge management. The solution, available immediately, will be sold to the commercial and federal market by IXOS North American sales teams in the United States, Canada and Mexico. www.ixos.com, www.convera.com