Vendors Selected for the “Cool Vendor Report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing
San Francisco, April 8, 2008 – Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) software, today announced that top analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has included Sitecore in the “Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2008” report by Toby Bell, Mark R. Gilbert, and Rita E. Knox published on April 4, 2008.
The report stated, “Cool vendors in content management are establishing new directions for established technologies which can benefit professionals engaged in valuable content-focused business processes. Making their lives simpler, and the content itself smarter, yields extremely rewarding results.”
“We are honored to be named a ‘cool vendor’ by Gartner,” said Darren Guarnaccia, VP of Product Marketing for Sitecore. “Our customers are establishing competitive advantage by driving more value from their websites for both their marketing and operations initiatives. Their success in using our software to automate their compelling websites, and saving development time and dollars in the process, we think has helped create this inclusion and recognition.”
Sitecore’s Web CMS makes it effortless to create content and experience rich websites. It helps enterprises achieve business goals such as increasing sales and search engine visibility, while being straightforward to integrate and administer. Sitecore lets businesses deliver sites that are highly scalable, robust and secure, and is built to simplify website deployment, automate processes, and deliver results faster.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed and implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defined a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
The complete Gartner report is available to Gartner clients at www.Gartner.com.
About Sitecore
Sitecore’s Web Content Management System (CMS) and focused software solutions enable companies to deliver compelling web experiences. Sitecore’s award-winning CMS software makes it easy for businesses to create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured Web sites of all types. Sitecore’s industry leading flexibility and scalability allows companies to better leverage their content to improve customer experience and drive business growth.
Thousands of public and private organizations, including national governments and Fortune 500 companies utilize Sitecore solutions for their Web sites. These organizations have created and now manage over 5000 dynamic Web sites with Sitecore including Microsoft, Sara Lee, Siemens, Toshiba, Omni Hotels, Computer Associates, WebTrends and Atlanta Falcons.
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