Endeca

Endeca Technologies Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Information technology Information access
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Steve Papa [1] [2] (CEO)
Parent	Oracle Corporation

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 ^[3] . It was a privately held company, backed by venture capital investment from Bessemer, DN Capital founders Steve Schlenker and Nenad Marovac, ^[4] Ampersand, ^[5] GGV, In-Q-Tel, Intel, SAP and Venrock.^{[ citation needed ]}

On October 18, 2011, Oracle Corporation announced its acquisition of Endeca for $1.075B. ^[6]

Endeca's product provided faceted search in the context of electronic commerce ^[7] and online libraries. ^[8]

See also

• Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)

References

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6. Farrell, Michael B. (2011-10-18). "Oracle buys Endeca". Boston.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
7. Briggs, Bill (2009-07-30). "Who puts the 'e' in e-commerce". InternetRetailer.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
8. "Toward the Next Gen Catalog". ALA TechSource. 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2011-10-18.