Endeca Announces ChristianBook.com and Indigo Books & Music Inc. Select Endeca InFront with Guided Navigation to Power Online Stores.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 Endeca further solidifies its role as top search vendor for leading online book retailers Endeca, the only provider of Guided Navigation solutions, today announced that ChristianBook.com and Indigo Books & Music Inc. (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension : IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) ) have chosen Endeca InFront(TM) for Guided Navigation(SM), search and dynamic merchandising on their online stores. Endeca InFront's Guided Navigation functionality will give ChristianBook.com and Indigo customers the ability to easily browse through the millions of products available on their sites to find the precise items they're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. and to discover items they didn't already know existed - leading to increased sales, higher customer satisfaction, improved customer loyalty, and higher conversion rates. ChristianBook.com, Indigo and Barnes&Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN), are now among the online book and specialty goods retailers to benefit from the power of Guided Navigation, further demonstrating Endeca's leadership in the market. ChristianBook.com, the leading distributor of Christian books, bibles, music, videos, games and giftware, chose Endeca InFront to make it easy for shoppers to browse through its multiple-source online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. and to quickly narrow down searches to efficiently find the products they're looking for. The new application, which ChristianBook.com calls EasyFind, is now live. After looking closely at the way its customers shopped, ChristianBook.com realized that the majority of users were typing single word queries. This would often result in long lists of products, and customers were left with few options on how to refine their searches. "Endeca's Guided Navigation offers the best of both worlds. Our customers can continue to shop the way they feel most comfortable, but now with Endeca, they can easily navigate and explore a list of results to find the item they want and make a purchase," said Mark Pepin, IT manager Web development for ChristianBook.com. "Our team was able to rapidly deploy Endeca - we were up and running in a few short weeks. We were also impressed with Endeca's ability to easily scale to meet our needs for future growth. What's been most exciting is that we're already seeing lift in our browser to buyer conversion rates." Indigo, Canada's largest retailer for books, music and videos, turned to Endeca for a new, enhanced, online shopping experience for its customers. "Endeca InFront offers an integrated solution with search, Guided Navigation and merchandising - something we hadn't seen from other vendors," said Tracy Nesdoly, vice president communications and product development for Indigo. "We'll now be able to provide our customers with an incredibly effective and efficient way to explore our site, discover new items and make purchases. At the same time, Endeca's merchandising technology empowers us to offer specific promotional products based on a customer's search path." Indigo's new Guided Navigation solution is scheduled to go live to the public in Fall 2002. Guided Navigation from Endeca eclipses conventional "query and response" approaches to search, which place the burden on users to be familiar with the data set, have an idea of what to look for and how to describe the item, and finally to structure a query in a way the system will understand. In contrast, Guided Navigation provides an intuitive interaction model that eliminates all irrelevant information, and dynamically guides customers with only relevant and valid product choices. "Increasingly, online retailers are searching for creative and innovative ways to make their customers' shopping experiences more productive. With the flexibility of Guided Navigation, retailers can dynamically create unique shopping experiences or `stores' for each of their customers, based on the customer's preferences - making the visit to the site much more satisfying and efficient," said Steve Papa, 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. and founder of Endeca. "We're pleased that leading online bookstores like ChristianBook.com, Indigo and Barnes&Noble.com have selected Endeca in order to offer their customers a much better and more productive shopping experience." Endeca solutions help businesses across a variety of sectors like retail, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. problems associated with content and catalog management as well as enterprise information access and retrieval. About Endeca Endeca offers innovative Guided Navigation(SM) information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. Endeca technology is already at work for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble.com, Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. , Eddie Bauer Eddie Bauer (NASDAQ: EBHI) is a clothing store chain. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, and a subsidiary of Eddie Bauer Holdings (formerly Spiegel, Inc.), the company was founded in Seattle in 1920 as "Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop" by its namesake, Eddie Bauer (1899 – , Spiegel, Tower Records, Arrow Electronics, Putnam Investments and IHS IHS (I.H.S.) first three letters of Greek spelling of Jesus; also taken as acronym of Iesus Hominum Salvator ‘Jesus, Savior of Mankind.’ [Christian Symbolism: Brewer Dictionary, 480] See : Christ IHS Engineering. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. Patent-pending algorithms provide a scalable, Web-based infrastructure for data exploration, leading to highly relevant and meaningful results every time, and this technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) analytics, catalogs, directories, search and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is backed by leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Ampersand The ampersand (&) normally means "and" as in Jones & Company. However, in the computer world, it is used in various ways. In Windows, it is used as a code to precede an underlined character. Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. and Venrock Associates. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com. About ChristianBook.com ChristianBook.com, Inc. the online home of Christian Book Distributors, Inc. (CBD (Component Based Development) Building applications with components (objects). See component software. CBD - component based development ) is the country's leading direct-mail and e-commerce provider of Christian books, music, videos and gifts to Christian consumers. Founded in 1978, the company specializes in offering a large selection of products at reduced prices. With 20 years experience, CBD has a proven reputation for aggressive prices, convenient ordering and fast shipping. About Indigo Books & Music Inc. Indigo is a Canadian company and the largest book retailer in Canada, operating bookstores in all provinces under the names Indigo Books Music & more, Chapters, Coles, SmithBooks, and World's Biggest Bookstore. Indigo operates www.chapters.indigo.ca, an online retailer of books, videos and DVDs. Indigo is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. , listed on the TSX under the stock symbol IDG. To learn more about Indigo, please visit the About Our Company section of chapters.indigo.ca. Endeca, Endeca Navigation Engine, Endeca InFront and Endeca Data Foundry are trademarks and Guided Navigation is a service mark of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations. |
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