Empowers Customers to Take Advantage of Data within Their Organizations to Create Unsurpassed User Experiences
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 8, 2009 – Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, announced today the Endeca Extend partner program which helps its customers
quickly and easily integrate eCommerce and Media technologies directly into Endeca-powered
sites. Partners build cartridges which plug directly into the user experience using Page Builder, a
component of the Endeca Commerce Suite and the Endeca Publishing Suite. The result is an
unsurpassed customer experience for end users, increasing revenue, margin, ad inventory and
other critical bottom-line metrics.
Endeca Extend is currently focused on eCommerce and Media software vendors. Participating
partners include web analytics vendors Coremetrics, Omniture, and Webtrends; user-generated
content providers Bazaarvoice, Pluck, PowerReviews, and Viewpoints Network; ad network
provider Searchandise Commerce; rich user interface technologies provider Allurent; and
recommendations vendors Baynote, Certona, ChoiceStream, MyBuys, and richrelevance.
Endeca Extend partners and their cartridges are certified by Endeca.
Endeca Extend empowers retailers and distributors to create effective, profitable site search,
navigation, and merchandising, resulting in faster time to outstanding sites with higher conversion
rates and order sizes. Endeca Extend enables media and publishing firms to create a site
experience that engages visitors and draws them deeper into content, increasing page views,
advertising revenue, and subscription sales. Partners create cartridges which site owners plug
into their sites using Page Builder. This means site owners can use data from site analytics
packages, user reviews, user profiles, and any other source to drive more page views and clickthroughs.
In addition, customers with multiple sites can take a templated approach to rolling out
new features across their properties.
"Searchandise Commerce is thrilled to be included in the Endeca Extend program to bring
innovative and compelling solutions to retailers built on Endeca`s industry-leading search,
navigation, and merchandising solutions," said John Federman, president and CEO of
Searchandise Commerce. "With the cartridge strategy, retailers using Endeca`s on-site search
can instantly begin monetizing on-site search and navigation, turning on an incremental stream of
revenue with essentially no disruption to the user experience or reliance on IT resource."
Endeca Extend leverages the recently announced McKinley release of the Endeca Information
Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new
architecture for building standards-based search applications. The McKinley release laid the
foundation for continuing improvements in speed, scale, and simplicity. This program builds on
this open framework to simplify integration and extensibility which allows for easy development of
entirely new search applications and cartridges.
“Endeca and our business partners solve specific high-ROI business problems with lower cost-ofownership,
faster time-to-results, and greater value than any alternative,” said John Andrews,
vice president, Industry Solutions for Endeca. “Endeca Extend provides the foundation to allow
our customers to seamlessly integrate technologies with search and navigation-based promotion
so our customers can focus on what matters most – creating a superior site experience to grow
their businesses.”
Endeca Extend partners are participating in this year’s Discover conference being held this week
in Boston. Discover ’09 provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about the latest product
capabilities and the roadmap as customers plan for 2010 and beyond. For more information or to
register, visit http://www.endeca.com/discover/.
About Endeca
Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search apps built on Endeca’s technology
deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings
and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information
Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new
architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any
way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and
employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access
information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations
including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell,
Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and
Walmart.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
Contacts:
Alison Durant
Director, Corporate Marketing & Communications
+ 617.674.6335
adurant@endeca.com
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