Found, Inc. and ATG Announce Alliance To Offer Retailers and Manufacturers a Personalized, Multi-Channel Commerce Solution
Found`s Integrated Clicks and Mortar Solution Complements
ATG Dynamo e-Business Platform
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Francisco - Found, Inc., an e-infrastructure technology solution provider leveraging the Internet to create efficiencies for offline retailers and manufacturers throughout the supply chain, today announced that it has joined the ATG Partner Program (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG). Together the two companies will provide retailers and manufacturers with a comprehensive solution for complete integration of multi-channel commerce and customer interaction.
Found`s ICaM (Integrated Clicks and Mortar) SolutionTM rapidly and cost effectively integrates retailers and manufacturers` online and offline operations. ICaM adds in-store functionality to a retailer`s Web site by providing a secure communication link for online product searches and transactions between the in-store point-of-sale system and the consumer. ATG offers an integrated suite of customer relationship management and e-commerce software that help businesses understand, manage, and build online customer relationships. The ATG DynamoTM e-Business Platform helps companies build and manage environments that use scenario-driven personalization to promote customer satisfaction. Found and ATG will work together to help extend a retailer`s online presence to its physical store network and assets, by providing a complete personalized multi-channel solution that meets the needs of individual consumers.
"We are excited to be working with ATG because, like Found, they truly believe in the value of multi-channel retail," said Found president and CEO Rich Lawson. "Partnering with leading e-commerce platform providers, such as ATG, broadens Found`s relationships with leading retailers and branded manufacturers by offering a comprehensive, personalized and reliable multi-channel shopping experience."
Through their alliance, Found and ATG will employ joint marketing and selling efforts to leverage both the extensive ATG and Found networks, and new joint accounts.
"ATG`s commitment to providing reliable and flexible customer management solutions is complimented by Found`s expertise in multi-channel integration. Retail connectivity is an increasingly important element in electronic commerce, and this alliance with Found provides our joint customers with a robust and integrated solution," said Ken Volpe, vice president of product management at ATG.
About Found, Inc.
Found is an innovative e-infrastructure solution provider that utilizes the Internet to create dramatic efficiencies for offline retailers and manufacturers throughout the supply chain. Found`s ICaM (Integrated Clicks and Mortar) SolutionTM helps traditional offline companies rapidly and cost-effectively allow their customers to search for, locate and purchase products online or offline from their regional distribution centers or local retail stores. Found technology also provides offline partner companies the ability to more effectively monitor and react to geographically relevant real-time product movement within the supply chain. Found is a privately held company based in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.found.com.
About ATG
ATG is a leading provider of online customer relationship management and electronic commerce products and services. ATG offers an integrated suite of JavaTM application server-based products and services, as well as related application development, integration and support services. The ATG DynamoTM e-Business Platform enables Global 2000 enterprises, as well as new businesses using the Internet as their primary business channel, to understand, manage and build their online customer relationships and to more effectively market, sell and support their products and services over the Internet.
With its network of more than 250 solution partners, ATG has delivered e-business solutions to over 670 companies worldwide including 3M, Aetna Services, Inc., American Airlines, Blockbuster, BMG Direct, eChips, Eastman Kodak, HSBC, Herman Miller, J. Crew, Sun Microsystems, and Target. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional locations throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
© 2001 Art Technology Group, Inc. ATG, Art Technology Group, the Techmark, the ATG Logo, and Dynamo are registered trademarks, and Personalization Server and Scenario Server are trademarks, of Art Technology Group, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. NASDAQ:ARTG
This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause ATG/Found actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risk factors affecting ATG/Found business generally may be found in ATG/Found periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Risk factors related to the subject matter of this press release include the possibility that the ATG/Found product deployment will not significantly enhance the user`s Internet experience or be able to accommodate increased user volume; that customers will not be able to increase the speed of their deployments; that the products of the two companies will no remain integrated or function together, either now or in the future; that ATG/Found product deployment will not provide a complete, personalized multi-channel solutions for consumers; and that the two companies will not continue to add common customers. ATG/Found undertake no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.
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Media Contacts:
Coleman Smith for Found
Alexander Ogilvy Public Relations
(404) 881-2397
csmith@alexanderogilvy.com Michele Spiewak
Art Technology Group, Inc.
(617) 386-1898
mspiewak@atg.com
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