CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — May 13, 2008 — Endeca Technologies, Inc., an information access software company, today announced the list of speakers and topics for its sixth annual user conference, Endeca Discover 2008. More than 500 attendees, including IT and business leaders from Global 2000 and government organizations, are expected for the three day event. Under the theme "Innovation Acceleration," the event will focus the role of information visibility — giving customers and employees a clearer view into more information — as a catalyst for accelerating innovation and driving competitive advantage.
Endeca Discover 2008 will include keynotes, case studies, panel discussions, labs, educational sessions, and roundtables on cross-channel customer experience design, rich internet application development, high performance, high scale application best practices, mobile information access, social search and discovery, as well as today's most innovative uses of Endeca's technology.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by a world-class lineup of speakers including:
"Information visibility will play a critical role in how companies create opportunities and leverage their information investments to differentiate themselves from competitors," said Steve Papa, chief executive officer of Endeca. "Throughout the conference, speakers will foreshadow the next 12 to 24 months in information access innovation and cover trends and issues that our attendees have identified as top-of-mind, such as optimizing the cross-channel customer experience, the future of information application development and the integration of information assets to fuel and accelerate organizational innovation."
More than twenty of Endeca's strategic partners — including Alfresco, Allurent, Architech Solutions, Basis Technology, Baynote, Bazaarvoice, Business Innovation, Certona, ChoiceStream, Coremetrics, Enterpulse, EquiSoft, Etilize, Ironworks, Lexalytics, MarketLive, NuWave Solutions, Omniture, PowerReviews, Resource Interactive, Silver Creek Systems, Stibo Catalog, Thanx Media, and WebTrends — will be discussing their shared vision around information visibility as official sponsors.
Discover 2008 is being held at the Orlando World Center Marriott, May 19-21. For more detailed information on the conference agenda or to register, please visit http://discover.endeca.com/.
About Endeca
Endeca's innovative information access software helps people explore, analyze, and understand complex information, guiding them to unexpected insights and better decisions. The Endeca Information Access Platform, built around a new class of access-optimized database, powers applications that combine the ease of searching and browsing with the analytical power of business intelligence. More than 500 leading global organizations including ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs, and streamline operations.
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Endeca has operations in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
Contacts:
Craig VerColen
Endeca
617-674-6190
cvercolen@endeca.com