News Coverage

The following articles featuring Endeca, our solutions, and our people have recently appeared in leading news, industry and trade publications.

	User interface best practices Search applications company Endeca has introduced the Endeca User Interface (UI) Pattern Library, which provides visitors with detailed user interface best practices for designing effective and innovative online search and discovery experiences.
	Endeca Unveils hybris Hybrid Endeca Technologies, Inc., and hybris, a vendor of multi-channel commerce and communication software, announced Endeca Multichannel Commerce with hybris. The new release, the product of a partnership announced in late 2009.
	Endeca Unveils Endeca Multichannel Commerce with hybris Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, and hybris, a vendor of multi-channel commerce and communication software, announced Endeca Multichannel Commerce with hybris, bringing together Endeca's user experience and contextual merchandising capabilities, with the configurable hybris eCommerce Platform and built-in Product Content Management (PCM) system.
	JFK library signs up for Endeca search tools Endeca said today that the library and museum and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation chose Endeca to provide search applications software and technical assistance on the institution’s web portal. Endeca said the JFK library will be the nation’s first online digitized presidential archive other than those built during the information age.
	The Boston Globe: JFK Library archives will go digital The digital archives, powered by Endeca will launch on January 20, 2011, the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35th President of the United States.
	How can BI applications use social media to benefit dashboarding and related BI initiatives? With the proliferation of dashboards and metrics in large companies, social media can tap the wisdom of crowds to get multiple perspectives that may lead to new questions and novel insights.
	PTC and Ford: Using PLM to Track Supplier Sustainability Ford plans to use its PLM toolset to work with suppliers "to match parts in the bill of materials with models of their individual carbon and energy impacts," which in turn will allow engineers and designers "to roll up the carbon and energy impacts at a vehicle level" and identify design changes that will have the greatest environmental impact.
	Finish Line's Mobile Shopping Site Boosts Sales, Web Traffic "We wanted to take advantage of the great shopping experience we already had on www.finishline.com and bring that over to our new mobile site," said Roger Underwood, senior vice president of e-commerce, Finish Line. "Endeca's site search and Guided Navigation were driving factors in unifying this experience."
	Endeca, PTC Partner to Give Manufacturers Visibility Across Enterprise Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, announced that it has joined the PTC PartnerAdvantage Program to provide a direct integration between PTC Windchill and the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP). With Endeca, PTC Windchill customers will be able to utilize Endeca Search Applications to support daily decisions of their workflows.
	One-on-One with Paul Sonderegger We solve both of the problems lurking inside the demand for better access to data and content: the first is self-service discovery and the second is agile BI for jagged data. The biggest trend information management in the coming years will be an explosion of diversity – more people relying on more kinds of information, in bigger volume, to make more decisions on a daily basis.
	Endeca Joins The PTC PartnerAdvantage Program “With the addition of Endeca to the PTC PartnerAdvantage Program, Windchill users will have a powerful solution for combining PLM, ERP, and supply chain data into a single information visibility solution. Endeca is a great addition to our program and can deliver significant new value to our customers.”- Andy Barlow, senior director of Business Development, PTC
	Endeca partners with PTC PTC Windchill customers can leverage the broad information visibility provided by Endeca Search Applications to support the many daily decisions required as part of their workflows, whether it is finding inventory or cost for a part, identifying approved suppliers or understanding outstanding warranty claims.
	Search: It's More Than Finding; It's Doing Endeca's solution for Harris enables engineers to query both structured and unstructured data sets, and it returns summaries of how the parts, suppliers, and cost data interrelate. "There is a lot of pressure on supply chains right now to improve decision making and shorten the time it takes," says Sonderegger. "This enables the company to point engineers toward preferred manufacturers."
	Athletic shoe retailer Finish Line finds mobile is a good fit Finish Line says 3% of its e-commerce revenue comes from mobile commerce. And 8% of its online customers access its mobile or traditional sites though mobile devices, up from 3% in September. It’s stats like this, says Roger Underwood, senior vice president of e-commerce, that show a mobile strategy is important.
	Closing the gap between shopper needs and e-commerce technology Finding new ways to deliver a superior customer experience keeps many e-commerce professionals up at night because, more than any other variable, the customer experience has the greatest impact in converting browsers to buyers.
	Solution Spotlight: Endeca Commerce Suite Taps Web 2.0 To Optimize Online Customer Experience Released in March of 2009, the Endeca Commerce Suite was designed to allow merchandisers the ability to provide their customers with a more intuitive and user-friendly online experience, thereby converting more site visitors into site customers.
	Forrester: Make changes on the fly with metadata-generated BI apps While the final result may meet all of an organization’s BI and analytical needs at the moment, requirements change over time, and complex BI software often lacks the flexibility to adjust. To help meet changing conditions, Evelson recommends that organizations look to metadata-generated BI applications.
	BI Tools Struggle to Keep Up BI adoption continues to soar – increasing 19 percent since 2008, with 30 percent of survey respondents planning to expand or upgrade their BI software. But with the increasing volume and complexity of data, the software is struggling to keep up with shifting demands that include real-time decision-making, according to the report.
	Making the Case for Agile BI A new report from Forrester Research makes the case for BI agility. The bottom line: business intelligence can -- and must -- become more responsive.
	Business Intelligence Software Coming Up Short? Business Intelligence software can play a vital role in helping IT and knowledge workers get a handle on increasingly huge warehouses of customer data and other information critical to their sales and overall business. But does that go far enough? In many cases, the answer is no.
	The Boston Globe: Backstage, they’re stars Four local tech firms fly under the radar, but they perform valuable work for major players. Hadley Reynolds, director of search and digital marketplace technologies at IDC, the technology market research firm, said Endeca is one of the leaders in the enterprise search market, which he said is “absolutely growing.’’
	Endeca announces commerce suite upgrade "Endeca's new release will enable our merchandisers to deliver the most targeted and relevant content to every customer at each step on our site so we increase the likelihood that our customers will find the best product for their need, resulting in higher conversion rates." - Matt Rogers, general manager of Batteries.com.
	Endeca Challenges the Dynamics of Search A customer that can't find what they're looking for is no different from any other lost sale, from a retailer's point of view. On Monday, April 12, Endeca released Commerce Suite 2.1 with hopes of helping companies combat this conundrum.
	New Endeca release ties site search to dynamic mixed-media web pages E-Commerce Technology Report: The latest version of the Endeca Commerce Suite due for launch next week aims to enable merchandisers to serve up increasingly customized content on site search and other pages.
	Rogers Digital Media Taps Brightcove and Endeca for Relaunch of Citytv Video Theatre Rogers Digital Media and Brightcove Inc., an online video platform developer, announced they have partnered to deliver a newly re-designed Citytv video theatre featuring a variety of locally produced Citytv content and exclusive full-length episodes of popular television shows, including 30 Rock, The Bachelor, and The Biggest Loser.
	Search-based applications support critical decision-making Search technology has evolved over the past decade, moving from basic keyword search to more sophisticated enterprise search that includes relevancy ranking, concept searching, clustering and entity extraction. More recently, the emergence of search-based applications has brought a new dimension to search.
	Real-time results focus attention on social media To fully exploit the potential of search, marketers must take advantage of real-time data and smartphone technology that now dominate social media.
	Warranty Search Application Endeca Technologies is promoting a new approach to warranty analytics that allows users to take unscripted journeys through their claims data, asking questions they hadn't anticipated and looking for patterns and anomalies they didn't know were there.
	IW50 Profile: Harris Corp. -- Positioned for Growth Harris Corp.'s award-winning supply chain operating system plays a key role in the company's growth initiatives.
	The BI-Search Evolution Endeca's VP of Enterprise Product Management & Marketing discusses the merging of Search and BI. How it can result in improved user satisfaction and IT-budget performance, as well as better, more informed decision-making.
	Information Applications are Fast and Simple with Endeca At the core of Endeca, is a unique platform that provides simple access to and navigation of information with a dynamic search capability, that provides relevant results to answer any business question.
	Engaging Your Customers Through Content Discovery and Exploration Clearly the new metric for online success in this environment is audience engagement. The challenge is to showcase just the right information in the moment your customer is searching for it – or to help them discover it among the wide range of rapidly changing information.
	The Boston Globe: Endeca founders steering search firm toward ‘business intelligence’ market "Endeca has a lot of appeal for very large enterprises who want to get a real handle on what’s going on in their enterprise," Sue Feldman, IDC.
	Enterprise search - the killer app CIOs seek Endeca chief strategist Paul Sonderegger says [Endeca] offers a way to "change the way companies compete in a way regular people can understand".
	CIO Magazine Says These are the Companies to Watch in 2010 There are a lot of innovative companies in the social computing, content management and overall IT space. CIO has consulted with analyst first MWD Advisors on which ones they think CIOs should be keeping an eye on. The results are not really surprising.
	Twenty companies to watch in 2010 Endeca is fast becoming the Google of enterprise search for e-commerce sites. It offers perhaps the friendliest way to do ad hoc BI and customer analytics.
	Q&A: Endeca Exec's Take on Helping Target Bring Web Operation In House John Andrews, VP of Solutions Marketing and Product Management at Endeca discusses Endeca's role in the new Target.com and its current road map in the online retail space.
	Target zeros in on its team of e-commerce platform builders It’s going to be a busy year for Target Corp. as the multichannel retailer lays the groundwork for launching its own e-commerce site by the start of the holiday shopping season in 2011.
	Target.com Announces Vendor Partners for Re-Platforming Effort Target announces core vendor partners to assist in building and managing the new Target.com eCommerce platform.
	FootSmart.com heads down the path to a better web site design FootSmart.com to undergo site redesign as a result of parent company's 2009 increase in annual web sales, following the expansion of their eCommerce platform, as well as the implementation of site search from Endeca Technologies.
	Focus on: Four key innovative IT solutions K&L Wine Merchants partners with Unbound Commerce and Endeca Technologies to merge customer online and offline shopping experience.