CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 21, 2005 -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation®, Search and Analysis solutions, today announced that Nottingham-based Boots.com Direct Limited, a subsidiary of Boots Group PLC, has deployed Endeca's search, navigation and merchandising solution on Boots.com, the company's online store. Deployed as part of the company's ongoing efforts to improve the shopping experience for the upcoming holiday shopping season, the new search solution offers a wide variety of intuitive, cutting-edge features and functionality to help shoppers more quickly and easily find desirable products.
The new solution -- now live -- was developed and deployed through a strategic partnership with Framfab, a leading European interactive marketing and Web consulting business.
The Endeca InFront solution, used by more than 90 leading retailers and 150 e-commerce stores worldwide, gives online shoppers the ability to refine searches and navigate products by the shopping criteria most important to them -- a next-generation approach known as Guided Navigation. For example, shoppers can refine searches by price range, brand, department, product category and more.
"Search plays a pivotal role in the online shopping experience, with the majority of our shoppers using our search engine to find products," said Brian Linnington, Head of Boots.com. "With Endeca, we can give our shoppers easy and accurate means of finding products and information, while providing helpful next steps to quickly hone in on the most desirable items. The end result is happier customers and better sales."
Powering the largest and most heavily trafficked online stores on the Web, Endeca InFront is now used by more leading online retailers than the next six competing solutions combined. Retailers including 1-800-Flowers.com, Barnes & Noble, Bol.com, Comet, Dabs.com, The Home Depot, Littlewoods, Tesco and Wehkamp rely on Endeca as a critical piece of the online sales efforts.
About Framfab
Framfab is a leading European Interactive Marketing and Web
Consulting Business. Framfab's customers are large international
companies, including 3M, American Express, AXA, Barclays Capital,
Cadbury Schweppes, Carlsberg Breweries, the Coca-Cola Company,
Danske Bank, DuPont, Ericsson, Hydro Texaco, Kellogg's, Kraft Food
International, Nike, Nobel Biocare, Philip Morris International,
Philips, Postbank, Rezidor SAS, SAAB, Sara Lee Douwe Egberts,
Schering AG, Swedish Match, Vodafone, Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo
Group and UBS. Framfab operates in Denmark, Germany, the
Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The
company is quoted on the O-list, Attract 40 of Stockholmsbörsen
(ticker symbol FRAM). For additional information, see www.framfab.com.
About Endeca
Endeca's award-winning Guided Navigation, Enterprise Search, and
Analysis solutions help organizations 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, The Home
Depot, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS
Investment Management, Putnam Investments); manufacturing and
distribution (IBM, Arrow Electronics, and John Deere); media and
publishing (World Book and IHS) and government (the Library of
Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a
private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information:
www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
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