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BroadVision Helps Audible Prepare for Holiday Shopping Season.


REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- BroadVision, Inc. (Pink Sheets:BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), a global provider of e-Business solutions, today announced that Audible.com, the leading provider of spoken entertainment, information and education on the Internet, has expanded its use of the BroadVision Commerce platform in preparation for the holiday season.

With thousands of unabridged and abridged digital audio books in more than a dozen of genres, including mystery, self-development, fiction, nonfiction, business, comedy, etc., comprising of more than 105,000 hours of audio from numerous content providers, Audible.com has a critical need for its systems to support growth in many dimensions Co content and customers Co as well as be scalable enough to meet the dramatically greater amount of traffic that comes with the holidays. The expanded use of BroadVision by Audible.com ensures that these needs will be met.

"Audible.com is focused on meeting the needs of our listeners," says Glenn Rogers Glenn Alan Rogers (born 12 April 1977 in Sydney, Australia) is a cricketer who plays international cricket for Scotland. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he made his ODI debut in Chittagong against Bangladesh in December 2006. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Audible, Inc. "We continue enhancing the user experience for the hundreds of thousands of listeners who use Audible. We need to be sure that the technologies we use today can handle our needs now and scale with our growth."

"We are pleased that Audible has grown so much over the years," concludes Dr. Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision. "Audible has been a BroadVision customer since 1996 and is among our most successful e-Commerce sites that require high-availability and no-fail performance during the holiday shopping season, a group that includes Circuit City, Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.

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 and Cornerstone Brands. Moreover, Audible is another proof point of the robustness of our solutions: flexible enough to adapt quickly to changing business conditions and scalable enough to grow to the highest numbers of e-Commerce transactions, customers and product data."

About Audible, Inc.

Audible (www.audible.com) is the leading provider of spoken entertainment and information on the Internet. Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or AudibleReady(R) computer-based mobile devices. Audible has 105,000 hours of audio programming from 334 content partners, including leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible.com is the Apple iTunes Music Store's preeminent provider of spoken products for downloading or streaming via the Web. Among Audible's other key business relationships are Bookspan, Creative Labs, Dell, iriver, Microsoft, Palm, SanDisk, Texas Instruments See TI.

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About BroadVision

BroadVision is a global pioneer of e-Business solutions. Nearly 1,000 organizations Co including Audible.com, Baker Hughes Baker Hughes NYSE: BHI is the world's third-largest oilfield services company behind Schlumberger & Halliburton, its main competitors. Baker Hughes provides the world's oil & gas industry with products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production. , Ferrari, Cardinal Health, Citibank, Hilti, Japan Airlines, Renault, Sears, Sony, Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered Bank (LSE: STAN, HKSE: 2888 ) is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in more than fifty countries. It operates a network of over 1,600 branches (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) and employs almost 60,000 , Vodafone, U.S. Air Force, Yomiuri Shinbun, Xerox Co serving nearly 75 million registered users, rely on BroadVision's innovative e-commerce and portal platforms to power and personalize their mission-critical web initiatives.

For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call +1650.542.5100, email info@broadvision.com or visit www.broadvision.com.

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