Distribution Customers

Avnet

"Avnet is also investing a lot of time and money into its Web search engines. Avnet, based in Phoenix, has contracted with firms like Endeca to do both part number search and subject content search so Avnet engineers can get to reference design and board level information and download schematics." - Purchasing Magazine, 3/13/2008

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Sigma-Aldrich

"The search on the site has dramatically improved with the Endeca implementation. What's important is how many people actually buy the product that they put in their shopping cart. There's a 75% increase in the conversion rate." Daniel Boesch, Marketing Manager

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RS Components

RS Components first turned to Endeca to power an aggressive e-commerce strategy, using Endeca to help its customers explore, evaluate and select more than 500,000 - containing more than over 1 million product attributes as well as related technical documents, on dozens of regional sites in Europe and Asia. Following on this success, RS tapped into Endeca's analytics and integration capabilities to achieve one consistent view of enterprise data across the organization's multiple ERP systems.

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Fastenal

"Fastenal uses the Endeca solution to produce custom views of online catalog pages by filtering the data, hiding what users shouldn't see and showing what they should. This lets each user have a specific view of the data, seeing only the products and pricing that are part of the user's contract without Fastenal having to create a custom catalog for each customer." - DM News, 3/27/2006

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Brady

“Instead of reinventing the wheel each time, once we had completed Brady's direct marketing brand site and received significant business benefits, it was evident that we would standardize on the Endeca IAP.” Tom Schenk, manager of eBusiness, Brady Corporation.

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Premier Farnell

"We used basic technology at first and then moved to a more advanced third-party product. But we knew all along we needed something much more powerful. Our customers need to quickly find and select products intelligently by technical need or specification, not just by part numbers." - KM World, 1/1/2006

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Future Electronics

Using intuitive and visual navigation aides, buyers have access to 3-D product imagery, application notes, models, block diagrams, design tips and customer reviews. Rob Birse, vice president of product marketing, says it is Future’s goal to provide customers throughout the world “with a stratified product knowledge database that meets and exceeds the needs of engineers at every level, regardless of whether they are early adopters, domain experts or those taking the first steps into a new technology.” Purchasing.com, 2008

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Panasonic

Panasonic.com features extensive use of rich media and better search. On a product page for plasma TVs, for example, visitors can sample product videos, click and see larger images, and read detailed product summaries and other information. Panasonic also redesigned each product page with a search box. The new site search engine, which features guided navigation from Endeca Technologies Inc., delivers faster answers that include results by category, price and other categories. - Internet Retailer, 10/17/2007

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Cabot

"The results are pretty dramatic. The 12 months after we put Endeca in and put the whole site redesign in, people were downloading about twice as much information." Ted Kelley, E-Business and Sales Application Manager

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PC Connection

"PC Connection offers tens of thousands of products, each of which has its own unique set of product information," said Mike Davis, vice president of information services for PC Connection, Inc. "Endeca's technology harnesses that product data and uses it to provide options for customers to find what they want intuitively. It's flexible enough to accommodate a variety of search approaches, which makes it easy to find products fast."

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NBI

As one of the country’s leading continuing legal education providers, for the past 20 years NBI relied heavily on direct mail to reach its target customer base. With Endeca, NBI moved its online strategy forward and dramatically increased traffic to the site with the SEM module. The number of NBI.com pages indexed by large search engines like Google and Yahoo! went from just a few hundred to over 50,000 pages indexed and they’ve been able to decrease SEO spend by about forty percent.

Northern Tool & Equipment

"The redesign of Northern Tool's site search had an immediate impact on conversion rates and order size, Miller said, with conversion rates up 18%. In addition, ease of use increased by 17% based on customer feedback, he said. After six months, the site search conversion rate was twice the overall average and 54% of sales were driven by site search, he said. In addition, there was a 72% increase in natural search sales, Miller reported. "We paid off our three-year investment in three months," he said." - Internet Retailer, 2005

Corporate Express

Corporate Express uses the Endeca IAP to deliver a unique and dynamic customer experience - including custom views of products and pricing - of clean, normalized master product data. Endeca is used on Corporate Express' B2B eCommerce site, E-Way.com, which features over 190,000 products, supports 1.2 million users from over 100,000 specific customer accounts, and is responsible for 75 percent of the company's overall revenue.

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Shi

One of the most unique aspects of SHI business approach is the commitment to delivering custom catalog views to 4,000 of SHI's largest business customers. The new site features Endeca's Custom Catalog capabilities which make it easy to manage and deliver these custom views at high performance, despite the significant size and uniqueness of SHI's product information. These custom catalogs incorporate a wide variety of custom fields, including negotiated pricing, custom naming conventions, and customer standards for particular product categories.

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