Social Commerce Summit '08

Partner Sponsors

Platinum

Omniture

Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture’s software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service, enables customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web sites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional services that complement its online services, including implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through Omniture University™. Omniture’s customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, Countrywide Financial, General Motors, Sony and HP. www.omniture.com

Gold

Aggregate Knowledge

Aggregate Knowledge is the leader in the rapidly emerging online Discovery space. Our Pique Discovery Ads allow retailers to deliver highly targeted and relevant product suggestions based on what is actually being viewed, clicked and read on the web - anonymously and in aggregate - in real time. Pique Discovery Ad campaigns help drive the entire customer lifecycle from acquisition, to conversion, to retention.  Acquire new customers by placing relevant product recommendations directly into affiliate banner ads or within the context of articles. Email communications, whether promotional or transactional, can be enhanced by real-time product placements, thereby increasing customer retention. Once the customer lands on your site, engage them and drive conversions with discovery throughout your site. Enhance those ads by incorporating your ratings & reviews with each suggestion.

CheetahMail

Experian CheetahMail is the trusted service provider of online marketing solutions for top enterprises worldwide. Offering industry-leading email marketing and customer intelligence solutions, as well as providing a broad range of client services, Experian CheetahMail enables clients to build data-driven, relevant relationships with their customers. Servicing the world’s most recognizable brands, Experian CheetahMail’s globally diverse client base includes Barclays, Borders Books, Discovery Communications, H&R Block, KLM, Sears Holdings Corporation and Wyndham Hotels. Experian CheetahMail, a business unit of Experian® Group Ltd. (LSE:EXPN), was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York City with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Barcelona.

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.

IBM

IBM® WebSphere® Commerce provides the world's most innovative companies a powerful customer interaction platform for cross-channel and online commerce - supporting all of a company's business models while providing a rich, differentiated customer experience. IBM can help businesses do everything from deploying their first e-commerce site to establishing a complex, rewarding multi-channel strategy.

Silver

ATG

ATG makes the software and delivers the on demand solutions that the world's most customer-conscious companies use to power their e-commerce web sites, attract prospects, convert them to buyers and ensure their satisfaction so they become loyal, repeat, profitable customers. Our e-commerce suite is ranked the #1 current offering and #1 in strategy by the industry's most influential analyst firms, and powers more of the top 300 internet retailers than any other vendor. Our eStara brand provides customer interaction solutions to enhance conversions and customer support, and delivers the world's most widely used click-to-call service. ATG's solutions are used by over 900 major brands, including Amazon, American Eagle Outfitters, AOL, AT&T, Best Buy, B&Q, Cabela's, Carrefour, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, CVS, Dell, DirecTV, El Corte Ingles, Expedia, France Telecom, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, HSBC, Intuit, Jenny Craig, Macy's, Meredith, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, New York & Company, Nokia, NutriSystem, OfficeMax, PayPal, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Sears, Sony, Symantec, Target, T-Mobile, Tommy Hilfiger, Urban Outfitters, Verizon, Viacom, Vodafone and Walgreens. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North America and Europe.

Coremetrics

Coremetrics is the leading provider of online marketing optimization solutions. Its solutions generate high return on online marketing investment and continue to pay daily dividends in improved marketing performance. Over 1,000 online business sites, transacting over $15 billion this year, are now using Coremetrics’ Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to optimize online marketing efforts. Coremetrics’ solutions encompass advanced online analytics and precision marketing applications, including search engine bid management, email marketing and cross sell applications to acquire customers more cost effectively, increase conversion rates, and increase lifetime customer value. Clients have recognized over $300M in documented ROI and 87% of clients recognize ROI in 12 weeks or less. The company is privately held with funding from Accel Partners, FTVentures, and Highland Capital Partners and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. To learn more about Coremetrics, visit www.coremetrics.com or call 877-721-CORE.

Demandware

Demandware provides the only fully customizable, enterprise-class, on-demand ecommerce platform, optimized for high-growth brands that want to accelerate their online revenue. The Demandware eCommerce Platform offers the merchandising control, flexibility, functionality and interoperability of a full ecommerce application suite, with the benefits of an on-demand delivery model, including hands-free upgrades and world-class data centers. No other ecommerce solution approaches the breadth, depth and quality of Demandware’s best-in-class merchandising, including catalog management, price books, promotions, and ecommerce search. Demandware’s customers include Bare Escentuals, HP, House of Fraser, Playmobil, Sally Beauty Supply and Timberland.

Exact Target

ExactTarget, Inc. is a leading provider of on-demand email marketing software solutions.  The company’s suite of on-demand one-to-one marketing applications enable clients to send business-critical and event triggered communications to increase sales, improve their return on marketing investments and strengthen customer relationships.  ExactTarget’s clients include Careerbuilder.com, Expedia.com, Florida Power & Light, Gannett Co., Inc/USA TODAY, the Indianapolis Colts, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Liberty Mutual Group, Papa John’s and Wellpoint, Inc.

Responsys

Responsys is a leading global provider of on-demand marketing solutions that empower businesses to market more effectively through email, direct mail, and mobile channels. Since 1998, Responsys’ hosted solutions have served as proven alternatives to expensive, on-premise marketing software, helping companies across industries improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of global marketing operations. Responsys leverages proven methodologies, current best practices, and open technology to offer marketer-centric products and services designed to drive the fastest return on investment (ROI) in the marketing industry. Responsys is recognized as a market category leader by Forrester Research and JupiterResearch in their most recent evaluations. For more information, visit http://www.responsys.com.