Endeca

Endeca was a software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that sold eCommerce search, customer experience management, enterprise search and business intelligence applications. Endeca was founded in 1999 as Optigrab[1] and was a privately held company, backed by venture capital investment from Bessemer, DN Capital, Ampersand[2], GGV, In-Q-Tel, Intel, SAP and Venrock.[3] On October 18, 2011, Oracle Corporation announced its acquisition of Endeca for $1.075B.[4]

Endeca Technologies Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Information technology Information access
Successor	Oracle Corporation
Founded	1999
Defunct	2011
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Steve Papa (CEO)
Parent	Oracle Corporation
Website	www.endeca.com/

Endeca's product provided faceted search, particularly in the context of electronic commerce[5] and online libraries.[6] It is considered a leader in the enterprise search and information access market by industry analyst firms Gartner,[7] IDC,[8] and Forrester Research[9]

See also

• List of enterprise search vendors

References

1. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2001/01/15/daily12.html
2. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=28822
3. "Endeca". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
4. Farrell, Michael B. (2011-10-18). "Oracle buys Endeca". Boston.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
5. Briggs, Bill (2009-07-30). "Who puts the 'e' in e-commerce". InternetRetailer.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
6. "Toward the Next Gen Catalog". ALA TechSource. 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
7. "Gartner Positions Endeca in Leaders Quadrant of 2009 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant Report". TMCNet. 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
8. "Endeca Shortlisted as One of Top Search Vendors by Leading Market Research Firm (Press Release)". Reuters. 2009-09-21. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
9. "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Search, Q2 2008". Forrester Research. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2011-10-18.