CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 30, 2002 - Further demonstrating its market leadership, Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation integrated with advanced search solutions, today announced the Endeca Alliance Program, designed to integrate Endeca’s successful search and navigation solutions with other industry leading e-business technologies. With this new partner program, Endeca is broadening its solution set for a variety of sectors like retail, financial services and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload problems associated with content and catalog management, as well as enterprise information access and retrieval. Current members of the Alliance Program include: Fort Point Partners, Fry Multimedia, IHS Enterprise Solutions Group, Mindseye, NerveWire, Inc., non-linear creations, Inc., Structured Content, Molecular and WhitlockEBS.
Endeca has worked with the members of its Alliance Program on a variety of customer engagements. non-linear creations is currently working on a site re-design for Indigo Books & Music of Canada, including the integration of Endeca’s exclusive Guided Navigation and dynamic merchandising to offer customers a differentiated and productive shopping experience. Mindseye is currently working with Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals company, to build a front-end retrieval system that will allow visitors to filter complex and diverse content and find information that is tailored to their needs. Endeca technology will also be used to provide search and navigation for Cabot’s entire site.
NerveWire has worked with Endeca customer Commonwealth Financial Network, to build an internal application that allows sales and management to analyze customer and sales activity and commissions across multiple dimensions. Fry Multimedia helped The Spiegel Group evaluate and implement Endeca technology for its retail operations. Fry currently provides managed applications services for six e-commerce Web sites utilizing Endeca search engine solutions.
"NerveWire’s seasoned consultants are able to accelerate the deployment of Endeca’s innovative and robust search and navigation technology for our clients," said Josh Soldati, NerveWire Endeca Alliance Manager. "Using Endeca, we are able to integrate multiple data sources into a single view, enabling our clients to find and analyze crucial information to make better business decisions. The Endeca-based solution that we built for Commonwealth Financial is a testament to the power of Guided Navigation."
"As we work with our current and potential customers, we realize that they’re looking for easy, fast ways to access, retrieve and leverage their enterprise data in order to improve customer satisfaction and ultimately increase ROI," said Steve Sayre, Endeca vice president of marketing and business development. "What’s more, they need the ability to integrate this technology with their existing or new e-business platforms. With the Endeca Alliance Program, we’re offering customers a way to leverage the power of Guided Navigation solutions in tandem with our partners’ skills and technologies for a complete, integrated, end-to-end business solution."
About the Endeca Alliance Program
The Endeca Alliance Program is a consortium of leading professional services, technology and OEM providers all dedicated to developing and delivering innovative e-business solutions built on Endeca technology featuring advanced search and Guided Navigation. The program allows Endeca to broaden its solution set for a variety of sectors like retail, financial services and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload problems associated with content and catalog management as well as enterprise information access and retrieval.
The patent-pending Endeca Navigation Engine, featuring the integration of search and navigation, serves as the core technology base for the three distinct categories of partner relationships that comprise the Endeca Alliance Program. These partner relationships include:
Professional Services Partner Program
Endeca’s Professional Services Partner Program targets key consulting and systems integration vendors that work with end-users looking to add industry-leading search technology to their business processes. These partners provide strategic analysis, process re-engineering, project management, data preparation and user interface design to their clients who are deploying Endeca’s Guided Navigation.
Technology Partner Program
Endeca designed the Technology Partner Program for vendors who provide complementary technology to Endeca’s Guided Navigation. Endeca works closely with these partners, providing them with the critical information access and retrieval technology that will serve to enhance their current solutions. Vendors in this program typically offer content management software, e-commerce platforms, portal software, application servers, enterprise application integration (EAI), supply chain management (SCM) and customer relationship management (CRM).
OEM Partner Program
Through its OEM Partner Program, Endeca is enabling OEM vendors to embed Endeca’s search, navigation and analytic technology into their solutions, while quickly bringing these new products to market. Members of this program offer solutions in: SCM, CRM, Employee Relationship Management (ERM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), portal software and e-commerce.
The Benefits of the Endeca Alliance Program
Endeca is extending its commitment to providing the tools necessary for a complete e-business solution built around Endeca’s information retrieval system. Members of the Alliance Program can increase their potential to generate revenue by leveraging Endeca’s customer base. Other partnership benefits will include Endeca’s support and training sessions. Partners will also be invited to participate in several marketing initiatives as well as programs with Endeca’s sales channels.
"We are pleased to collaborate with Endeca to provide a proven search and navigation solution to our customers," said Shannon Ryan, CEO of non-linear creations. "By offering Guided Navigation as part of our systems integration package, our customers can manage their information retrieval to decrease, and even eliminate the problem of information overload."
About Endeca
Endeca offers innovative advanced 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 retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble.com, Fidelity Investments, Eddie Bauer, Spiegel Catalog, Tower Records, Arrow Electronics, Putnam Investments and IHS Engineering. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. Patent-pending algorithms provide a scalable, Web-based infrastructure for data exploration, leading to highly relevant and meaningful search results every time, and this technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) analytics, catalogs, directories, search and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is backed by leading venture capital firms including Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.