Sapient and Unica Join Forces to Provide Breakthrough Marketing Technology and Services.Nation's Second Largest Digital Advertising Agency Partners with Enterprise Marketing Management Software Leader to Help Clients Deliver a Better Brand Experience CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SAPE SAPE Sapient Corp (stock symbol) SAPE Substance Abuse Prevention Education SAPE Survivable Adaptive Planning Experiment SAPE Sexual Assault Prevention and Education ) today announced that it has formed a partnership with Unica (NASDAQ: UNCA UNCA University of North Carolina at Asheville UNCA United Nations Correspondents Association ) to provide new marketing technology and services that help large and mid-size enterprise organizations maximize their brand impact, improve campaign results and increase the return-on-investment of their overall marketing spend. For marketers, reaching prospective customers in an increasingly complex multi-channel, multi-device world is now harder than ever. At the same time, they face increased budget scrutiny and greater pressure to show improved revenue and measurable results from their marketing initiatives. Recognizing this, Sapient and Unica will offer enterprise marketing management (EMM (Expanded Memory Manager) Starting with 386-based PCs, an EMM is software that converts extended memory (beyond one megabyte) into EMS memory, the first technique used to increase memory in the PC. ) technology and services to enable marketers to easily manage marketing information and assets, rapidly assemble campaign components and track performance faster and more effectively than ever before. Sapient, ranked as the second largest digital advertising agency in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. by Advertising Age in April 2007, will make Unica's award-winning Affinium([R]) EMM software available to its fast-growing global client base and prospective clients. In addition, Sapient will provide strategic, creative and marketing infrastructure implementation services to deliver a more complete, robust EMM solution. Lastly, Sapient will integrate its popular BridgeTrack([R]) platform - the only ad server and marketing platform to enable real-time reporting and optimization across multiple media channels such as email, display advertising and search - with Affinium. The most comprehensive EMM suite on the market today, Affinium streamlines the entire marketing process for brand, relationship and Internet marketing See Internet advertising. - from planning and budgeting to project management, execution and measurement. In addition, Affinium offers key EMM capabilities including Web and customer analytics, cross-channel lead and campaign management, marketing resource management and event-detection. "Sapient is truly a new breed of digital agency - one that combines superior creative services Creative Services are a subsector of the creative industries, a part of the economy that creates wealth by offering creativity for hire to other businesses. Examples include:
"Unica has the most compelling EMM vision today and we are thrilled to offer their stellar Affinium suite to our clients," said Sapient Chief Creative Officer Gaston Legorburu. "There is an increasing demand for an EMM platform that supports integrated marketing processes across a variety of marketing roles and functions. We are eager to integrate our BridgeTrack online delivery platform with Unica's Affinium software to a deliver seamless real-time marketing and advertising infrastructure for our clients." About Sapient Sapient, a global services firm, helps clients compete, evolve and grow in an increasingly complex marketplace. The company operates two groups--Sapient Interactive and Sapient Consulting--positioned at the intersection of marketing, business and technology. Sapient Interactive provides brand and marketing strategy, award-winning creative work, web design and development and emerging media expertise. Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing services such as testing, maintenance and support. Sapient's passion for client success--evidenced by its ability to foster collaboration, drive innovation and solve challenging problems--is the subject of case studies on leadership and organizational behavior used by MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration students at both Harvard and Yale. Leading clients, including BP, Essent Energie, Harrah's Entertainment Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET) is a gaming corporation that owns and operates casinos, hotels, and six golf courses under several brands. The company, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest gaming company in the world, with yearly revenues around $7.11 billion. , Hilton International, Janus, Sony Electronics Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U.S. holding company for Sony's U.S.-based electronics and entertainment businesses. and Verizon, rely on the company's unique approach to drive growth and market momentum. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , Sapient operates across North America, Europe and India. For more information, please visit www.sapient.com. About Unica Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) is a leading global provider of enterprise marketing management (EMM) software. Focused exclusively on the needs of marketers, Unica delivers the most comprehensive EMM suite on the market. Unica's Affinium[R] software streamlines the entire marketing process for brand, relationship and internet marketing - from planning and budgeting to project management, execution and measurement. Offered on premise or on demand, Affinium delivers key EMM capabilities including: web and customer analytics, cross-channel lead and campaign management, and marketing resource management. Unica's solution uniquely provides a marketing system of record that enables marketers to easily manage marketing information and assets, rapidly assemble campaign components, and track performance. Just as sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. has streamlined sales operations, Unica's EMM solution is poised to revolutionize marketing. Today, more than 500 companies worldwide have adopted Unica's Affinium as their EMM solution. Founded in 1992, Unica is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. , with additional offices in the US, Australia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, India, Singapore, Spain, and the UK. For more information, visit www.unica.com. Unica sponsors The Marketers' Consortium, an online community where marketers and industry experts discuss the critical challenges of today's fast paced, interactive, customer-driven world. Visit The Marketers' Consortium blog at www.unica.com/share. Sapient is a registered service mark of Sapient Corporation. Unica, the Unica logo, and Affinium are registered trademarks of Unica Corporation. |
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