PARTNER PROFILES

James Tower is a full-service Internet marketing company specializing in strategic planning, creative work, and interactive design and development. We provide strategic creative services including Internet strategy, research and branding, website design, search engine marketing, email marketing as well as website hosting and eCommerce and Web content management solutions.

Novator is a strategic online retail services provider creating value for clients through a proven combination of retail expertise, technology and continuous innovation. Novator offers a complete outsourced eCommerce solution incorporating Virtual Retailer, a fully integrated multi-channel platform. Novator's solution includes strategy, design, deployment, hosting and monitoring with ongoing e-retail services and support, including marketing, merchandising and analytics. Since 1994, Novator has partnered with some of the world's best companies, transforming them into leading online retail enterprises.

It's ProjectThunder's dedication to its clients that creates the most value. Built on service based architecture ProjectThunder delivers a solution with a compelling ROI through e-marketing, merchandising and multi-channel sales throughout the customer life cycle. ProjectThunder focuses on its customer online Image, Web Design and functionality and Marketing (IMW) to build consumer trust. ProjectThunder eCommerce projects and elegantly planned and designed, develop and deployed. From the strategy session to the deployment and maintenance the ProjectThunder Team is readability available along with project detail that you plan your business around.

SigmaCommerce provides proven retail solutions for Multi-Channel Direct Marketers. SigmaCommerce places forward a unified view of the user's entire enterprise from a single convenient control center. One central starting point puts vital information concerning the user's customers, data and multi-channel enterprise at their fingertips.

Snow Valley has over 10 years' experience in the development and operation of mission-critical e-business solutions. Working primarily in the retail and financial market industries, we work with industry leaders to help them leverage internet technology in their business operations.

Since 1997, Ventura Web Design has specialized in developing eCommerce websites utilizing the Yahoo! Store / Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform. As an Authorized Yahoo! Small Business Partner, VWD offers an array of services from website design, to marketing, to usability and statistical analysis. Because each member of our staff has personal interest in the success of your company, we have created a highly competitive and customer-service oriented atmosphere. Everyone from the Customer Service Representative to the HTML technician is willing to go the extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction.

Bazaarvoice provides online brands with a managed solution to enable, encourage, and monitor online customer ratings and reviews. The Bazaarvoice solution empowers customers to share opinions on the retailers' web site, influencing each other to make more informed and rewarding purchase decisions. The goal of Bazaarvoice is to help retailers improve ROI and accelerate results by harnessing and leveraging customer-created content.

ClickThrough Marketing offer managed search engine optimization and marketing services that increase search engine positions, traffic and internet marketing ROI. Their credibility is from their commitment to providing ethical search engine marketing services that deliver internet traffic in the long term. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) services drive internet traffic from natural listings. Pay per click (PPC) advertising is a search engine marketing technique that requires you to pay a fee every time someone clicks to your website. ClickThrough Marketing have comprehensive plans to suit everyone.

Coremetrics is the leading provider of on-demand web analytics and precision marketing solutions, offering the industry's only web analytics platform that captures and stores all customer and visitor clickstream activity to build LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) Profiles. Coremetrics services more than 600 brands and has delivered over $300 million in documented ROI in the past two years. The company is privately held with funding from Accel Partners, FTVentures, and Highland Capital Partners and is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in Austin, Texas, Dallas, Texas and London, England.

e-tecture GmbH is an innovative, solution-oriented technology company, headquartered in Frankfurt/Main. They develop optimized software solutions, leveraging proven expertise and years of experience in IT consulting and software development. e-tecture believes that the successful implementation of software solutions is based on competent consulting and high quality products that perfectly fit requirements.

Feefo is an easy way for you to build a better, more profitable business. When choosing products and services, consumers most value the genuine opinions of other consumers. They also respect companies who listen to their customers' feedback - both good and bad - and are not afraid of admitting to the occasional shortfall.

Fireclick provides on-demand comprehensive Web analytics and e-marketing solutions that offer online retailers real-time, actionable customer insight. The Fireclick Advanced Marketing Suite takes the guesswork and headache out of the vendor selection process, offering you an integrated suite of best-in-class web marketing solutions across Web Analytics – Data Warehouse Solution, Keyword Bid Management and Email & Viral Marketing Programs. Together, the suite lets you make smart marketing decisions that drive acquisition, sales, and retention while increasing revenue and building your brand. Fireclick is wholly owned subsidiary of global eCommerce leader Digital River, Inc.

Fluid Design has been creating digital experiences and applications for over a decade. Clients include The North Face, Charles Schwab, Design Within Reach, Microsoft, Avery Dennison, United Tote, JanSport and Timberland. Fluid believes that experience matters. From influencing consumer behavior to improving the efficiency of day-to-day employee tasks, outstanding user experiences deliver measurable business results. Fluid offers a full range of expertise spanning product concept development to project definition, implementation and maintenance.

Fry, Inc. designs, develops, and manages the world's most respected and recognized eBusiness brands, applications, and systems. But at the end of the day we're not just about technology, we're about relationships. By combining advanced technology, systems engineering, information design, and creative brilliance, Fry infuses the human element into electronic interactions and commerce.

Hybris supplies standard software solutions for the media-neutral management of product information and its distribution over both online and print channels. Manufacturers, vendors, marketplace operators and purchasing companies consolidate and manage their entire product information in every language on one platform, in the process creating a "single source of truth". Enterprises are able to supply online and print channels with information from this central hub. Integrated solutions for catalogue management, eCommerce, e-procurement and database publishing provide you with personalised and channel-specific data recycling throughout all electronic procurement and sales channels. This also means that print catalogues can be published without media fragmentation. The hybris solution's integrative approach to managing and recycling product information leads to a reduction in process costs, clearing the path for companies to add new sales and procurement markets at low cost. The return on investment with hybris is very fast. And because hybris has elected to use standard-based and future-proof basic technologies in its solutions, your investments are secure over the long term.

IndexTools offers a highly customizable and scalable analytics platform for companies' online marketing activity in each phase of the customer lifecycle. With IndexTools Web Analytics and Bid Management, businesses gain accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their online marketing.

As the UK's leading retail consultancy, Javelin Group provides a full range of retail, distribution, and multi-channel consultancy services for retailers, eCommerce businesses, distributors, and investors. Our unique breadth of services enables us to address and improve every part of the retail and distribution value chain.

Logan Tod & Co was formed in 2002 to tackle a very simple problem. For every hundred visitors to a website only one or two had a successful outcome from the perspective of the business owner. Ninety eight left. Such tremendous waste is an opportunity to improve performance. Conversion is at the heart of what Logan Tod & Co does for its clients.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Omniture is the leading provider of on-demand, Web analytics and online business optimization services-supplying the essential intelligence companies need to successfully improve the performance of online business and marketing initiatives. The company provides its customers with the ability to collect, integrate, analyze and automate the reporting and distribution of multi-channel business information and processes, empowering business users at all levels to make more informed, real time, data-driven decisions.

New York-based Optimost is a technology and services company specializing in comprehensive real-time testing and conversion rate marketing. Pioneers in the field of multivariable testing, the firm is able to create and test virtually limitless permutations of copy, offers and layouts in the time it takes to conduct a standard A/B page comparison test. By combining real-life response data with information about which variables were displayed in the test, Optimost clients are able to determine how much each individual website element contributes to the overall response rate. Client web pages can then be optimized further based on the combinations of most positive individual site elements.

Publicis Technology, the eSolution company of Publicis Groupe, understand the nature of the relationships that make our clients different. We leverage the opportunities offered by information and interactive technologies to deliver solutions that help our clients better serve, recruit and retain their own clients.

PowerReviews provides brands and retailers with a complete solution for consumer product reviews - fully outsourced, white-label and most importantly, free of charge. PowerReviews developed patent-pending implementation and customer-facing technologies to deliver this service free to retailers while providing enterprise-quality functionality and reliability.

RichFX is the market leader in online visual merchandising solutions, enabling retailers to leverage existing visual assets and turn them into powerful and cost-effective marketing tools.

Rocket Salad is the UK's first and only eCommerce business improvement specialists. If you think your website should be performing better than it is currently, you are probably right. Customer conversion in eCommerce is typically very low, at only 1–2% or even less. Rocket Salad has proven, demonstrable techniques for increasing credibility, confidence and trust and to produce improvements in conversion of up to 400% and more. We can also help with improving customer retention schemes, monetising content and cross-channel strategy (critical in today's changing market). Rocket Salad is all about the top line: our clients have all benefited whatever the industry sector.

Scene7 - provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Scene7 solutions include: Dynamic Imaging, eCatalogs, Product Configurators, Targeted email and print, Image Management.

SecureTrading is an Internet payment service provider ("PSP"); that is, we develop and supply technology that enables websites to accept credit and debit cards and other payments securely, simply and swiftly. Our customers (or "merchants") are both B2B and B2C and include startup businesses, SoHo enterprises, SMEs, local government, charities, members' associations and large corporates. Our merchants are in retail, education, service industries; in fact, they're in just about any business that wants to be able to accept card payments online securely. SecureTrading understands the evolving needs of merchants – our solutions are designed to help grow their business.

SellPoint Commerce is a leading outsource eCommerce provider focused on providing the tools and solutions for software publishers and hardware vendors to sell more products online thus increasing revenue. With SellPoint Commerce, you have flexibility, scalability, security and immediate time-to-market at an affordable price point with NO start-up fee.

True Clarity formed 5 years ago to bring together the agile development methodologies found in large scale website development projects, with the more disciplined approach common to internal systems integration. True Clarity believes that as these two areas continue to converge their experience in both will allow them to provide innovative solutions to their clients.

USi is an AT&T company and a leading Application Service Provider (ASP). USi delivers enterprise application management, managed hosting, remote management, eCommerce development and hosting, enterprise messaging and collaboration, professional services and software-as-a-service enablement.

WAND is the international business to business directory featuring the Internet's most advanced product and service category system for the precise matching of buyers and sellers in every industry. Suppliers can register and be searched under all of the product and service categories that they can provide. Buyers can search for precise product and service categories for the relevant list of qualified suppliers and send requests for quotes, emails, or faxes to inquire about making a purchase.

WebCollage helps Fortune 1000 companies extend their online presence to indirect customers and offline buyers. With WebCollage, businesses can increase indirect sales and preserve their brand identity and message across online channels with distinctive and consistent brand and product presentation on every business partner's Web site.

An eCommerce solution from WebLinc combines the technical, operational, branding and marketing elements required to deliver truly superior results that will strengthen customer relationships, increase and improve brand awareness, increase sales and contribute to competitive advantage. The industry-standards based, cross platform solution is entirely modular, providing clients with the freedom to choose what they want, when they want it. WebLinc works within your existing infrastructure and internal skill sets, making it easy and cost-effective to deploy and maintain without the pain and resource strain often created by major development efforts.

WebTrends Inc. provides solutions that dramatically improve web results for many of today's largest companies and most innovative marketers. WebTrends web analytics solutions have become the gold standard since pioneering the industry twelve years ago and leading it ever since. WebTrends enables thousands of web-smart organizations to profitably acquire new customers through search marketing automation, develop a consistent marketing framework to prove and improve results, and build profitable, long-lasting relationships with their customers. Companies such as Ticketmaster, IKEA, Reuters, General Mills, US Bank and numerous leading global brands rely on WebTrends as their trusted standard, not only for the award-winning technology, but also for a full range of consulting services and unmatched industry expertise across the broadest range of vertical markets.

YourAmigo is the one of the world's broadest search engine companies with technology, products and services covering both organic and paid search engine optimization and search engine marketing services, business intelligence services and web site search.

Established in 1983, CSI is one of the UK's leading Multi Channel Solution providers and Business System Integrators. CSI implement market leading E-commerce technology from IBM, Mercado, Oracle and Microsoft to provide the most compelling User Experience, whilst driving growth in revenue, customer service and satisfaction.

CSI's Rapid Commerce managed service provides businesses with a robust, scaleable, rich, e-commerce and distance selling capability. Based on an economical monthly fee, this provides retail businesses with low set-up costs, reduced risk; complexity and a quicker time to market. Retail, brand and mail order customers include: Express Gifts, Findel, Harvey Nichols, Laura Ashley, LVMH, Robert Dyas, RS Components, Silentnight, Telewest, Wella and many other consumer branded goods manufacturers.

INDUSA is a leading IT consulting and software solutions provider with over 15 years of experience in the industry. We offer a complete range of IT services and solutions in the areas of E- Business, Enterprise Application Integration, On-site Consulting, Application Development and Outsourcing, Packaged Software Implementation and E-Governance Solutions.

Innovent Solutions is a consulting firm, which helps its clients improve their business processes through effective information management. Since 1996 we have been a leader in integrating Enterprise Reporting software into the customer enterprise, deploying applications that provide valuable business reporting and insight to management, partners, and clients. We have implemented solutions that enable organizations to better manage its business – from interacting with customers to making strategic, financial, managerial and operational decisions. Through three practices areas, Data Management, Business Intelligence, and Search, our solutions have encompassed all types of data, from internal to external, structured and unstructured. We enable organizations to turn vast inventories of raw data into resources that enables business results even if the tools to do so change over time. Our ultimate goal is to provide our clients' decision makers with accurate, relevant and actionable information, resulting in improved profitability, improved customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

As the UK's leading retail consultancy, Javelin Group provides a full range of retail, distribution, and multi-channel consultancy services for retailers, eCommerce businesses, distributors, and investors. Our unique breadth of services enables us to address and improve every part of the retail and distribution value chain.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web.

USi is an AT&T company and a leading Application Service Provider (ASP). USi delivers enterprise application management, managed hosting, remote management, eCommerce development and hosting, enterprise messaging and collaboration, professional services and software-as-a-service enablement.

Ventura Web Design Since 1997, Ventura Web Design has specialized in developing eCommerce websites utilizing the Yahoo! Store / Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform. As an Authorized Yahoo! Small Business Partner, VWD offers an array of services from website design, to marketing, to usability and statistical analysis. Because each member of our staff has personal interest in the success of your company, we have created a highly competitive and customer-service oriented atmosphere. Everyone from the Customer Service Representative to the HTML technician is willing to go the extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction.