bmgmusic.com Launches Endeca Search Featuring Guided Navigation
BMG Music Service`s Online Club Members to Benefit from Speed and
Ease of Browsing and Buying Using Endeca InFront
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 1, 2003 - Endeca, the only provider of
advanced search and Guided NavigationSM solutions, announced today
that BMG Music Service, one of the world`s largest direct-to-customer
distributors of music, has launched Endeca InFrontŪ to enhance the
online customer experience at bmgmusic.com. Endeca provides the
fastest, most effective and accurate integrated advanced search and
navigation experience available, helping BMG Music Service`s online
members easily find and purchase music titles of interest to them.
Endeca InFront featuring Endeca Search, Guided Navigation and dynamic
merchandising will allow BMG Music Service`s online music club members
to search and browse over 14,000 music titles. Results can then be
refined according to individual preferences, helping members build
their music collections with the music they really want. Endeca`s
solution will also enable bmgmusic.com to recommend and highlight
additional artists and labels that match up with members` preferences,
encouraging them to easily find additional relevant selections.
"One of our key goals at BMG Music Service is to help our members
discover and enjoy music, not only of the artists they know but also
of the artists they haven`t yet found, " said Sharon Siegel, senior
vice president of marketing for BMG Music Service. "Endeca`s search
featuring Guided Navigation has proven, unique functionality and
ease-of-use that allows us to help our millions of club members
explore our vast array of titles and find the music they want."
The combination of Endeca Search and Guided Navigation with dynamic
merchandising offers the best way to promote and move merchandise in
online catalogs and directories because the most relevant products and
related merchandise are presented based on what a user is looking for
- creating an enhanced experience that is both productive and highly
satisfying to users. BMG Music Service joins a growing majority of
the world`s leading retailers who use Endeca InFront each day to
achieve higher conversion rates, larger orders and more return visits.
"Guided Navigation is designed to tailor results to the user,
regardless of how he or she chooses to search the information," said
Jim Baum, president and COO of Endeca. "With its vast selection of
artists, titles, genres and labels, bmgmusic.com is an ideal site to
showcase the benefits of Endeca Search featuring Guided Navigation.
Endeca InFront will enable intuitive search and navigation that will
cater to BMG Music Service`s online members and keep them coming back
for more."
Endeca Search solutions featuring Guided Navigation help businesses
across a variety of sectors including retail, financial services,
manufacturing, information publishing and business-to-business with
applications that address the information overload problems associated
with content, catalog and enterprise information access and retrieval.
Endeca solutions are built on innovative technology that makes it
possible for the first time to offer Guided Navigation and advanced
search on structured and unstructured information with high
performance, and low total cost of ownership, even at massive scale.
About BMG Music Service:
BMG Music Service is one of the world`s largest direct-to-customer
distributors of music. The company operates five different genre-based
record clubs - BMG Music Service, the
BMG Classical Music Club, the BMG Jazz Club, Sound & Spirit (Christian
and Gospel music), and Ritmo y Pasion (Latin music). Members of all
clubs are offered a selection of over 14,000 titles provided by the
five major music groups and over 100 independent record labels.
Members can shop for music directly from club catalogs or conveniently
online at www.bmgmusic.com . Based in New
York City, BMG Music Service and online music retailer CDnow form
BeMusic which is a unit of DirectGroup Bertelsmann.
About Endeca
Endeca offers innovative Endeca Search and Guided NavigationSM
information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate,
discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems
associated with information overload. Endeca technology, a winner of
Computerworld`s 2003 Innovative Technology Award, is already at work
for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business
companies like Barnes & Noble, Putnam Investments, and Arrow
Electronics. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover
relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results
with unprecedented speed. This search and navigation technology can be
applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications
including Knowledge Management, Customer Relationship Management
(CRM), customer self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and
portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered
in Cambridge, MA. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner. For
more information, visit www.endeca.com .
Endeca, Endeca InFront and Endeca Navigation Engine are registered
trademarks, Endeca ProFind is a trademark and Guided Navigation is a
service mark of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and
service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.
Contact:
Craig VerColen
Public Relations Manager
ENDECA
55 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
T (617) 621-4927
F (617) 577-7766
E cvercolen@endeca.com
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