Smart Information Systems - Partners

Partners

	Founded in May 2005, Bazaarvoice is a software company that enables the world’s largest brands to capture and amplify the voices of its customers to build sales. We bring word of mouth to ecommerce. read more Bazaarvoice products and services enable consumers to share ratings, reviews, questions, answers, and stories about products and brands on branded websites. Bazaarvoice clients like Argos, Office Depot, Best Buy, and Dell – among more than 375 more – can easily capture and display consumer-generated content, such as product reviews. Bazaarvoice Ratings & Reviews, Ask & Answer™, and Stories™ deliver immediate success by being easy to implement and enabling clients to get the full benefits of user-generated content. Bazaarvoice’s solutions are coupled with dedicated Community Managers, who act as extensions to clients’ marketing teams, providing ongoing social commerce consulting on an individual basis. Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in London, Paris, and Singapore. In cooperation with Bazaarvoice, product reviews and ratings can be integrated into the intelligent guided selling solutions. Thus, the consulting process becomes more informative and the user can include other consumers product reviews in his purchasing decision.

	Etilize Inc., a subsidiary of GfK Group, was founded in 2000. We serve more customers in more countries than any other product data provider of technology and office products. Our commitment to providing the best service possible is one of the many reasons Etilize is the largest product data provider of technology and office supply products in the world with databases on 7 million products in 30 countries and in 20 languages.

	FACT-Finder (fact-finder.com) is the European market leader in product search and navigation for online shops. The error tolerant high-end-solution works independent of language and is internationally integrated in over 500 Webshops. read more FACT-Finder is easy to implement and virtually runs maintenance free. Settings and updates can be made directly to the live system. Webshops report a revenue increase of up to 25%, depending on the range of products, immediately after FACT-Finder integration. In addition, this high-performance system may be implemented as an ASP (Hosted Service) and offers the option of direct access using a Webservice and XML interfaces. Together with FACT-Finder, Smart Information Systems develops the intelligent product search "Semantic Search". This enables users to enter product criteria into the search and later refine the search results in the Smart Finder. Test intelligent product search and product advsiors at Hoh.de.(in German)

	Intershop Communications AG (founded in Germany 1992) is a leading provider of comprehensive state-of-the-art e-commerce solutions. Intershop's Enfinity Suite 6 is high-performance packaged software for internet sales, complemented by all necessary services as well as comprehensive online marketing consulting. Intershop also acts as a business process outsourcing provider, covering all aspects of online retailing, including fulfillment. Around the globe more than 300 enterprise customers, including HP, BMW, and Deutsche Telekom run Intershop solutions. Intershop is headquartered in Jena, Germany, and has offices in the United States and Europe.

	prudsys AG (www.prudsys.com) is a technology leader in the field of intelligent data analysis. In addition to classical data mining, prudsys focuses in particular on the development and integration of high-quality realtime analytics solutions for the retail market/mail order business and financial services. read more The company was founded in 1998 and as a result of intense and continuous research has established itself as a first mover in realtime data mining. prudsys AG owns numerous national and international patents. In addition, prudsys AG is setting new standards in data mining thanks to its innovative realtime analytics technologies and membership in the international standardization committees DMG (Data Mining Group) and OMG (Object Management Group). In cooperation with prudsys AG it is possible to adapt the guided selling solutions better to the consumers needs. For example, the results of the product consultation may include recommendations for complimentary products or product bundels.

Research Partners

	Smart Information Systems is a member of AUSTRIA PRO
	We conduct research and development projects together with STI
	The Chamber of Commerce of Austria is our partner in the project ebSemantics (Semantic Web-based e-commerce)
	Another partner in the area of Semantic Web is the E-Business and Web Science Research Group in Munich under the guidance of Prof. Martin Hepp.
	Research Studios Austria is a partner in our research and development project
	The Technical University of Vienna provides support in the execution of research and development projects
	Österreich Werbung is a research partner in the ebSemantics project (Semantic Web-based e-commerce)