Knowledge Focus was formed in August 2000 after a management buy-out (MBO) of Excalibur Technologies Africa from Grintek Electronics. The company markets a range of products to help customers manage their information assets. Knowledge Focus is managed by Piet Dempsey and Graham Melvill-Smith, who both have extensive experience in the field of digital asset management. The company supports and serves organisations that have a need to retrieve information (knowledge) with accuracy and speed. In short, it is able to assist any organization that has problems finding their information. Knowledge Focus concentrates on the Knowledge Retrieval and Knowledge Preservation markets with special attention to the delivery of information (knowledge) for the Competitive Intelligence (CI) and Strategic Marketing Intelligence (SMI) markets, and is a master reseller for a number of exciting technologies that enable these business functionalities. Through these technologies, including Convera products, the company is able to assist companies in storing and retrieving data from the following internal and external sources: general office documents, Intranets, groupware applications, ERP systems, existing document management systems, the Internet, relational databases, digital images, video and paper-based documents. The company’s head office is in Pretoria and some of its clients include Eskom, Technicon SA, Gensec, Kumba Resources, MNET, NEMISA and government