Cambridge, Mass., February 18, 2003 Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation with advanced search solutions, today announced that PC Connection, Inc. of Merrimack, NH, a leading direct marketer of information technology (IT) products and solutions has implemented Endeca InFront featuring advanced online product search and Guided Navigation tools. PC Connection customers with online accounts now have access to a more robust and powerful set of tools, enabling quick and easy location of IT products in the company’s large database.
Endeca’s new "smart" search engine tracks a customer’s online search in progress, and provides increasingly specific options to filter, refine, and sort the results. Endeca InFront technology offers unique Guided Navigation functionality and an advanced search capability, enabling users to search and navigate based on specific criteria. This eliminates the frustrating "million or none" problem where a customer may get an unwieldy list of results or a "no results found" response.
"PC Connection offers tens of thousands of products, each of which has its own unique set of product information," said Mike Davis, vice president of information services for PC Connection, Inc. "Endeca’s technology harnesses that product data and uses it to provide options for customers to find what they want intuitively. It’s flexible enough to accommodate a variety of search approaches, which makes it easy to find products fast."
"Endeca InFront with Guided Navigation provides the best way for accessing and finding the right products and solutions for any company engaged in e-commerce on a large scale," said Jim Baum, president and COO of Endeca. "The beauty of Guided Navigation is that it provides a better overall customer experience, and gets more of the right products in front of prospective buyers."
Endeca’s Guided Navigation with advanced search solutions help businesses across a variety of sectors like retail, financial services 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 Endeca
Endeca offers innovative advanced search and Guided Navigation 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, Fidelity Investments, Eddie Bauer, and Arrow Electronics. 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. 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. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner and is a preferred provider of IBM’s WebSphere Commerce Group. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.
About PC Connection, Inc.
PC Connection, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, operates through three sales subsidiaries, PC Connection Sales Corporation of Merrimack, NH, GovConnection, Inc. of Rockville, MD and MoreDirect, Inc. of Boca Raton, FL. PC Connection Sales Corporation is a rapid-response provider of information technology (IT) products and solutions offering more than 100,000 brand-name products to businesses through its staff of technically trained outbound sales account managers and catalog telesales representatives, its comprehensive web sites, and its catalogs PC Connection (1-800-800-5555) and MacConnection (1-800-800-2222). GovConnection, Inc. is a rapid-response provider of IT products and solutions, offering more than 100,000 brand-name products to federal, state and local government agencies and educational institutions (1-800-800-0019). MoreDirect, Inc. provides corporate technology buyers with a comprehensive web-based e-procurement solution and in-depth IT supply-chain expertise, serving as a one-stop source by aggregating more than 300,000 products from the inventories of leading IT wholesale distributors and manufacturers. All three subsidiaries can deliver custom-configured computer systems overnight.