CAMBRIDGE, MA and LONDON, June 14, 2004 -- Endeca, the leading provider of enterprise search and Guided Navigation solutions for the enterprise, announced today that independent research firm Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) has positioned Endeca in the ‘visionary’ quadrant in the 2004 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search(1) --a market Gartner analyst Whit Andrews calls "highly dynamic."
The annual report evaluates vendors on the basis of "completeness of vision" and "ability to execute." A vendor's vision enables it not only to serve an enterprise's needs today but also to prepare for the future. Ability to execute implies that a vendor has the resources and viability to respond. To determine positions for each, Gartner considered results relevance, performance, scalability and architecture, as well as financial strength, services capabilities, market visibility and pricing.
Endeca Search and Guided Navigation solutions help knowledge-centric organizations in government, financial services, manufacturing, information publishing, business-to-business commerce and retail maximize the value of their content, catalog and enterprise information assets. Endeca is used worldwide in a wide range of enterprise and customer applications including Knowledge Management, CRM, customer and employee self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and portal integration.
About Endeca
Endeca's award-winning Search and Guided Navigation solutions help organizations to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with information overload. Endeca’s customers include a wide range of enterprises including retailers (Barnes & Noble, CompUSA, 1-800-Flowers, and BMG Music); finance (Putnam Investments, MFS Investments, and Quick & Reilly); business-to-business companies (IBM, Arrow Electronics and CDW); content delivery (World Bookand Martindale Hubble), and government (CIA and the Library of Congress). Endeca is a private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More info: www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.
About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search 2004 by Whit Andrews is copyrighted May 17, 2004 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
(1) "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search, 2004," Whit Andrews, Gartner, Inc. May 17, 2004