VERITY'S topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT ENABLES APPLICATION DEVELOPERS TO OFFER
PERSONALIZED INFORMATION

TOOLKIT SUPPORTS UNMATCHED FILTERING AND DELIVERY OF ON-LINE INFORMATION TO
THE DESKTOP OF 100,000'S OF USERS IN REAL TIME

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA., FEBRUARY 20, 1996 -- Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRTY), a
leading provider of information search and retrieval applications and
tools for the Internet and the enterprise, today announced topicAGENT
SERVER TOOLKIT 1.0 , a powerful new product that allows filtering of
information on the Internet and in the enterprise for users who don't want
to miss valuable information because they don't have time to search for
it. Now companies and information providers can leverage topic personal
agents to dramatically streamline and automate the process of monitoring
information sources and delivering relevant information to their users.

"The successful company of the '90s is the well-informed company, whether
it's managing email, monitoring live news or financial markets, or
delivering proactive customer service information," said Philippe Courtot,
chairman and CEO of Verity. "With this new release, our partners are able
to develop powerful information products using Verity's intelligent agent-
based technology to help companies be successful."

TOPIC AGENTS DELIVER RELEVANT INFORMATION

The topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT contains the Verity search engine which
allows it to filter documents against personal profiles in real-time.

Users can easily create personal information agents (topicAGENTS) that
watch for interesting news and deliver it. They can select from a variety
of sources, such as World Wide Web sites, email, enterprise databases,
newswire feeds or discussion groups. They can deliver desired information
as soon as it arrives or by other delivery mechanisms - such as to a Web
page, by email, or by paging devices. Verity's powerful concept-based
search technologies allow delivery of the most relevant information to
each individual user.

WHO BENEFITS FROM INTELLIGENT TOPICAGENTS

* Information Publishers such as news and online services can now provide
personalized agents that empower their subscribers by continuously
filtering, retrieving and delivering information that satisfies
subscribers' personalized search profiles.

* Corporations can provide their workforce with Intranet services that
continually monitor industry news and developments, competitive data,
internal groupware discussions, electronic mail and other sources of
information to keep them well-informed.

* Product vendors can deliver proactive customer support by alerting
customers of new products, updates, tips and documentation without having
to call in, based entirely on each customer's personalized profile.

With Verity's proven topicSEARCH engine as its foundation, topicAGENT
SERVER TOOLKIT is versatile enough to serve novice as well as
sophisticated users. Personalized search profiles deliver accurate results
whether describing the desired information with natural language, simple
queries or taking advantage of advanced search operators, including
concept search, fuzzy logic, proximity and statistical methods. Verity's
topic agents can analyze documents and prioritize them for delivery based
on relevancy ranking. Users can also customize agents to control the
quantity, level of detail, scheduling and frequency of information
retrieved.

TOPICAGENTS GROWS WITH YOUR ORGANIZATION

No other filtering or agent technology is as scalable as topicAGENTS.
topicAGENTS can handle 100,000 of agents watching and filtering
information in real time. Workgroups, departments, entire organizations or
on- line services can deploy many thousands of agents and receive as many
documents every hour, around the clock. Users also have freedom of choice
to access information streams or document collections in a wide variety of
formats including ASCII, PCF, HTML, SGML, email, Internet news and more
than 50 word processor, desktop publishing and spreadsheet formats.

PROVEN BY DESIGN PARTNERS

There are more than 15 companies currently in the process of providing
personalized news and information via the Internet and across the
enterprise based on Verity's topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT. These companies
such as AT&T Wireless, Cisco Systems, IBM, Knight-Ridder New Media, News
Corp.'s Delphi Internet, ZDnet, Netscape, Time Inc., Pathfinder and Xilinx
have all participated in Verity's design partner program and significantly
contributed to the design of the topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT.

"Knight-Ridder's San Jose Mercury News was the first design partner and
started with the program in 1995 for NewsHound. We adopted the topicAGENT
SERVER TOOLKIT because it allowed us to effectively provide our customers
with the ability to continuously search and retrieve personalized
information," said Chris Jennewein, director of Knight- Ridder's New Media
Center.

"Xilinx provides resources serving the logic design community at large. As
part of this commitment, we integrated Verity's topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT
into a new information search and retrieval solution on the Xilinx Web
site. Our customers need the ability to stay well- informed, and we have
crated a proactive mechanism to help them achieve this goal," said Richard
Ravel, Xilinx's director of customer training and Web development.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

Included in the topicAGENTS TOOLKIT are the topic Filter, drivers and
application programming interfaces (APIs) for Agent and Delivery
Management, documentation and sample programs tailored for deploying a
Web-based system. Pricing for topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT starts at $14,995
and will be available in the second quarter 1996 for full production
release.

topicAGENT SERVER TOOLKIT can be used with all common World Wide Web
Browsers and servers, including those from Netscape, Microsoft, and NCSA.
Supported platforms include Windows NT and servers from Sun Microsystems,
Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corp., Silicon Graphics and IBM.

Verity, Inc. was founded in April 1988 and is headquartered in Mountain
View, Calif. Verity develops and markets the topic( family of software
tools and applications for searching, retrieving and filtering information
across the Internet, enterprise and CD-ROMs. Verity's products have been
licensed to corporations, government agencies, on-line service providers,
Internet publishers and developers worldwide. The topic(SEARCH engine is
the engine of choice for Adobe Systems, AT&T, Hitachi, Individual, Inc.,
Lotus Development Corp., McKinley, Netscape Communications, Quarterdeck,
Reuters and many other companies.

For more information contact Verity at info@verity.com, at Verity's World
Wide Web site or by calling 415/960-7600.
 
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