[August 03, 2004] Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Selects TripleHop's MatchPoint As Company-wide Search Software NEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 3, 2004 -- TripleHop Technologies, a leading provider of advanced search, retrieval and classification software solutions, today announced that Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, a leading international investment bank, selected TripleHop's award-winning software MatchPoint(TM) as its company-wide universal search solution. Houlihan Lokey will use MatchPoint 3.0 to give its 600 employees fast access to the most relevant and mission-critical information, whether it is structured or unstructured. Users will be able to run powerful searches through millions of internal documents such as agreements, memoranda and correspondence located in any of Houlihan Lokey's nine US and UK offices. Simultaneously, they will be able to search and monitor in real time external information such as industry and company news and market data whether it is available on the Web, or provided by subscription services such as Factiva and Capital IQ. "We spent a lot of time analyzing the market before selecting our search vendor, and TripleHop Technologies quickly stood out as one of the most innovative and exciting vendors out there," says Louis Chen, Chief Information Officer of Houlihan Lokey. "Their ability to do both indexed and federated searching, their real time results clustering and concept searching capabilities, in addition to a modern, service-oriented, highly scalable architecture - all of this struck us as a truly next generation enterprise search product." "We are pleased to welcome a leading investment bank such as Houlihan Lokey among our growing financial services customer base further confirming that MatchPoint meets the needs of investment banking professionals," says Renaud Laplanche, CEO, TripleHop Technologies. "With MatchPoint, Houlihan Lokey can be confident its professionals always have immediate access to the most relevant information." About TripleHop Technologies, Inc. Headquartered in New York, N.Y., with offices in London U.K., and Paris, France, TripleHop Technologies provides advanced context-sensitive search, retrieval and classification software solutions, giving enterprise users immediate access to precise information. Its award-winning MatchPoint enables users to access and share the most relevant information from disparate information sources improving productivity, yielding ROI and freeing-up time for proactive activities. Customers include CNN, USA Today, Novartis, LVMH, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, and the French Ministry of Finance. TripleHop's MatchPoint technology is also a key component in Find.com, the newly formed venture of FIND/SVP, Empire Media, and TripleHop. Find.com is a publicly accessible search engine specifically created with the business user's information needs in mind. For more information, visit www.triplehop.com About Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, an international investment bank established in 1970, provides a wide range of services, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, financial opinions and advisory services, financial restructuring, and merchant banking. In 2003, Houlihan Lokey ranked as the Number one M&A advisor for transactions under $200 million and the Number 4 advisor for transactions under $1 billion. The firm has been the Number one provider of fairness opinions for the past four years and has the largest financial restructuring practice of any investment bank in the country. The firm has approximately 600 employees in nine offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. It annually serves more than 1,000 clients ranging from closely held companies to Global 500 corporations. For more information, visit www.hlhz.com TripleHop and TripleHop MatchPoint are registered trademarks of TripleHop Technologies. All others are registered marks or trademarks of the respective organizations. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]