As ecommerce has matured, many specialists have emerged focusing on individual functions such as analytics, personalization, and product reviews. In some cases, these specialists offer capabilities superior to or unavailable in base platforms; in other cases (such as payment gateways), they provide services that platforms cannot provide. Although we have partnered with many best-of-breed solutions, the Elastic Path platform is flexible to integrate with any third party vendor you select.
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. The Elastic Path solution can be integrated with Oracle Enterprise 2.0 products and Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of leading, standards-based, and customer-proven software products that spans a range of tools and services including J2EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management.
Quova, Inc., is the leading provider of Internet geolocation data giving online businesses the ability to instantly determine where their Web visitors are geographically located. Quova's data touches billions of Web visitors each day and is used by online businesses to geo-target their advertising and web content, detect card-not-present fraud and identify theft, manage digital download distribution, enhance web analytics, and ensure regulatory compliance. Quova's customer base includes the world's top 3 search engines and thousands of Internet retailers, interactive agencies, ad networks, broadcasters, banks, gaming operators, and government agencies. Quova was founded in 2000 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Bazaarvoice brings the power of social commerce to the world's best brands. Social commerce happens when you connect customers to one another in ways that drive measurable results to your business. Bazaarvoice's mission is to help your customers build your business. Through outsourced technology, community management services, analytics, and syndication, Bazaarvoice is the best-of-breed solution for using user-generated content to drive customer loyalty and multi-channel sales.
Rapidly gaining customer acceptance and adoption, Google Checkout users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Google Checkout badge and convert 40% more than shoppers that have not used Checkout in the past. Google Checkout also charges retailers lower transaction fees, protects them from fraud and offers additional discounts for Adwords users. Elastic Path Commerce is a certified Google Checkout platform.
Enjoying enormous worldwide adoption, Paypal not only reduces checkout reluctance (by enabling payment without disclosing financial details to the retailer) but also charges retailers lower transaction fees than direct credit card payment. Elastic Path Commerce is a certified Paypal Express platform offering pre-build integration with Paypal Express.
PowerReviews is the Internet's most innovative provider of outsourced customer reviews and social merchandising solutions. Their market-proven technology for collecting, structuring and moderating customer reviews has been implemented by more than 350 leading merchants across 3,000 websites making PowerReviews the most deployed enterprise reviews solution on the web today. Working with merchants of all sizes and verticals, PowerReviews has processed and moderated more than 4.7-million reviews on more than 650,000 unique products.
Baynote enables retailers to increase purchases by automatically displaying the best products and content to customers through on-demand recommendation technology. Baynote taps into the collective wisdom of the silent majority - all of your website visitors - without collecting any explicit feedback. Over 80 ecommerce, media and enterprise customers use Baynote Recommendations to elevate their businesses.
Vertex Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise corporate tax solutions and process management services worldwide. Vertex solutions help companies streamline and integrate tax provision and compliance processes, and leverage information to discover new strategic tax savings across every major line of business tax, including income, sales, consumer use, value added, communications, and payroll. Vertex employs more than 650 professionals at its headquarters in the U.S. (Berwyn, PA) and its offices in Europe (London), Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Sarasota, and Washington, DC.