Endeca, a provider of advanced search and Guided Navigation solutions, has announced that IBM has chosen Endeca to provide navigation and dynamic merchandising for the company's online store at www.ibm.com. IBM selected Endeca InFront to help customers navigate IBM's computer hardware and products catalog, including notebook and desktop computers, workstations, and Intel-based servers. With Endeca's solution, each user can shop in a personalized and intuitive way, using product attributes such as price, operating system, model, weight, and special features to hone results and simplify the selection process. Endeca InFront will also provide dynamic merchandising so IBM can create customized promotions that are specific to each customer's shopping session.

Endeca Search and Guided Navigation solutions are designed to help businesses across a variety of sectors including financial services, manufacturing, information publishing, B2B, and retail with applications that address the information overload problems associated with content, catalog and enterprise information access and retrieval. Endeca offers Search and Guided Navigation information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. This search and navigation technology can be applied across a range of enterprise and customer applications including knowledge management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and portal integration. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner.

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