CODiE Honor Latest in a String of Accomplishments for Industry's Top On-Demand Site Search Solution PromotionWorld.com Thursday, May 18, 2006; 04:33 AM
SAN DIEGO, CA — WebSideStory, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSSI), the
leader in on-demand digital marketing solutions and real-time
enterprise analytics, today announced that its site search solution has
won the prestigious CODiE Award for Best Enterprise Search Engine. The
awards were presented last night at the Software & Information
Industry Association’s 21st Annual CODiE Awards Gala in San Francisco.
Established in 1986, the SIIA’s CODiE Awards are one of the biggest
honors in the software industry, annually recognizing leaders and
innovators in several different fields. WebSideStory was joined in the winner’s circle by companies such as
salesforce.com, Intuit, Amazon, Adobe Systems and many others.
WebSideStory Search is an on-demand site search solution that quickly
and easily guides visitors to the information, products and services
they seek. More than 300 enterprises worldwide rely on the solution to
increase conversions, reduce customer support costs and enhance the
overall customer experience. WebSideStory Search is part of the Active
Marketing Suite, the industry’s first suite of integrated, on-demand
digital marketing applications including web analytics, site search,
keyword bid management and web content management.
“This 21st
Annual CODiE Awards continues our tradition of celebrating the best
products in the software and information industry,” said Ken Wasch,
SIIA President. “Being a winner among so many fine nominees is a solid
achievement. I congratulate all of the companies.”
Last night’s
award closely follows the launch of WebSideStory Search 4.0, which
introduced a number of industry first capabilities into the market,
including Active Ranking – a patent-pending capability that enables
marketers to automatically drive site search results based on the full
spectrum of web site behavioral data. Brooks Brothers saw an immediate
25 percent uptick in sales via site search by using Active Ranking.
Other capabilities in the new version include automating product
submissions into comparison shopping engines, such as Froogle, and
automating feeds into Google Sitemaps, a service that enables site
owners to submit which web pages they want to be indexed by the search
engine giant. For more information on Search 4.0, please visit www.websidestory.com.
“We
are pleased to be recognized by the SIIA for our leadership and
innovation in the market,” said Steve Kusmer, General Manager and
Senior Vice President for WebSideStory’s Search and Content Solutions
division. “We accept this prestigious award on behalf of our many
customers and employees, who together have created the leading
on-demand site search solution in the market.”
With the CODiE
win, WebSideStory has received more recognition for its site search
solution over the past year than any other vendor in the industry.
Those honors include the CODiE Award; being recognized as a top-ranked
solution by the Patricia Seybold Group in its review of major site
search vendors (Feb. 2006); being named one of KMWorld’s “Trend-Setting
Products of the Year” (Sept. 2005); and being recognized by Jupiter
Research for having one of the best site and e-commerce search
solutions in the market (July 2005). In the Jupiter Constellation, no
other search vendor outranked WebSideStory in terms of both market
suitability and overall business value.
The SIIA received a
record number of entries this year – more than 1,026 submissions from
500 companies. The awards encompass a total of 71 categories spanning
software, digital content and education. The awards were judged by a
combination of journalists and peers. For a complete list of winners,
please visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2006/winners.asp.
About WebSideStory, Inc.
Founded
in 1996, WebSideStory, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSSI - News) is a leading provider
of on-demand digital marketing and real-time enterprise analytics
solutions that improve online marketing, sales and business operations.
Its Active Marketing Suite(TM) consists of web analytics, site search,
web content management, and keyword bid management. WebSideStory also
provides enterprise analytics solutions through its wholly owned
subsidiary, Visual Sciences, LLC, a leading provider of streaming data
analysis and visualization software. WebSideStory is headquartered in
San Diego, California, and has European headquarters in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. For more information, contact WebSideStory. Voice:
858.546.0040. Fax: 858.546.0480. Address: 10182 Telesis Court, 6th
Floor, San Diego, CA 92121. Web site: www.WebSideStory.com.
HBX and Active Marketing Suite are trademarks and WebSideStory is a
registered trademark of WebSideStory. Visual Sciences is a registered
trademark of Visual Sciences, LLC. Other trademarks belong to their
respective owners.
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