Convera announced the commercial availability of RetrievalWare 8, a new knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that can be optimized for specific industry and government applications. RetrievalWare 8 integrates Convera’s enterprise search with industry-specific taxonomies and new categorization and dynamic classification software, delivering techniques for searching, navigating and discovering knowledge, including hidden relationships, patterns and trends. With RetrievalWare 8, customers have a single integrated platform that categorizes and organizes all content including unstructured text, image, video and paper assets, in addition to a variety of structured data sources. Using Convera’s dynamic classification software, end users can launch a search and automatically classify the results based on pre-defined or dynamically generated classifications made possible through the combination of multiple taxonomies. Convera has also certified ten partners as part of its new Taxonomy Developer Certification Program, including Access Innovations, Advanced Technology Systems (ATS), Bleuphish, Creative Technology Inc., IBM, KAPS Group LLC, Mitre, MZM Inc., SRA International Inc., and Veridian. www.convera.com