Endeca Introduces Version 4.0 of Endeca InFront with Guided Navigation; Puts Control of Search, Navigation and Merchandising In Business Users` Hands
Version 4.0 Features Web-based Business Studio For Expanded Control and Flexibility
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 30, 2003 - Endeca, the only provider of Endeca Search and Guided NavigationSM solutions, today announced Version 4.0 of Endeca InFrontŪ, the market leading e-commerce search solution. With Version 4.0, Endeca enables an even more customizable and optimized user experience by giving business users and site managers unprecedented ability to analyze user behavior and control search and merchandising options on the fly with a new, enhanced Web-based Business Studio tool. Endeca InFront 4.0 also features innovative, patent-pending new search functionality as well as greatly expanded multi-lingual support. The enhancements in Endeca InFront are directly attributed to the input and feedback of the company`s over 45 leading B2B and B2C customers, whose goal is to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience to their customers and end-users in order to create competitive advantage and grow their online businesses.
Endeca InFront Version 4.0 offers the most advanced, integrated search and navigation environment available online today. With Endeca InFront 4.0, users are able to find what they are looking for and discover additional results of interest, while retailers benefit from a more robust, customizable, and easily-managed platform that provides the fastest time-to-market with almost instantaneous ROI.
Endeca InFront with its integrated Endeca Search, Guided Navigation and dynamic merchandising capabilities was created to radically improve the quality of shopper satisfaction through a superior, differentiated user experience. In Version 4.0, Endeca InFront has been enhanced in four key areas:
* Web-based Endeca Business Studio - Endeca InFront 4.0 includes an
upgraded Business Studio, now available as a Web-based tool that gives managers direct control of their e-commerce site. The new Business Studio allows site managers to analyze user behavior, and then, in response, to manage various aspects of their e-commerce site, including creating and editing site merchandising using a unique, in-context rules editing interface.
* Faster Time to Market - Endeca InFront 4.0`s revamped Developer
Studio allows eased taxonomy management and integration, speeding time to deployment and shortening time to ROI.
* Patent-pending Compound Dimension Search - Endeca InFront 4.0, now
provides a unique new approach to resolving multi-word queries to precise attribute intersections, providing more relevant results than traditional natural language processing technology, without the typically expensive overhead associated with NLP.
* Multi-lingual Support - Endeca InFront 4.0 is now fully
Unicode-enabled, providing a single platform for search and navigation of over 250 languages. Among the newly supported languages are Japanese and Chinese.
Endeca customer KBtoys.com uses Endeca InFront with Endeca Search, Guided Navigation and dynamic merchandising to power the entire search and browse experience on their site. InFront provides KBtoys.com the capability to increase average order sizes through merchandising relevant products and promotions based on the keywords and categories selected by the customer.
"The new Web-based Business Studio in Endeca InFront allows us to react quickly to the changing needs and demands of our customers with tailored promotions," said Michael J. Wagner, COO for KBtoys.com. "We now have even more flexibility to customize the shopping experience for our customers as they leverage Endeca Search and Guided Navigation to find what they`re looking for. We are committed to giving our customers the advanced tools they need to tailor their searches and help them navigate through the extensive array of products, categories and characters featured on our site. Endeca InFront continues to allow us to achieve that goal."
"In the past year, Endeca InFront has experienced tremendous adoption among the top 100 e-commerce companies-more than any other search vendor," said Jim Baum, president and COO of Endeca. "With Version 4.0 we have built on this momentum by reflecting the learning and best practices from current customer deployments. With Endeca InFront 4.0, we believe we are offering the most complete and adaptable search and navigation solution for catalogs and directories on the market."
Endeca`s solutions featuring Endeca Search and Guided Navigation help businesses across a variety of sectors including retail, financial services, manufacturing, information publishing and business-to-business with search applications that address the information overload problems associated with enterprise information access and retrieval and content and catalog management. 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 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 is already at work for leading 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 or contact us at info@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.
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