Company: Omniture, Orem, UT Company Description: Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture's customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Oracle, General Motors and HP. Nomination Category: Company Categories Nomination Sub Category: Best Overall Company
Nomination Title: Omniture, Inc.
- Tell the story about what this nominated company achieved since January 1 2007 (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
2007 was a year of phenomenal growth for Omniture. In 2007, the company added more than 2600 customers, bringing the total to approximately 4,400 customers. Many of these customer additions came as a result of increased sales and Omniture’s four acquisitions in 2007 of: Instadia, Touch Clarity, Offermatica and Visual Sciences. Omniture currently has 14 offices worldwide including: Utah, San Diego, Virginia, San Francisco, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, China, Korea, Singapore and Australia. Omniture customers include some of the most well-known and respected brands in the world including: AOL, eBay, GM, Hewlett Packard, MSNShopping, Sears, Time and Wal-Mart—along with some newly acquired customers during the most recent year including: Disney, Alaska Air Group, Borders Group, Digg.com, eToys Direct, Hammacher Schlemmer, InfoSpace, LastMinuteTravel.com, Nikon, Roger’s Media, Spark Networks, The Weather Channel; and internationally, Adversitement, Casio Electronics Co, Ltd., Danske Bank, EF-Education First, Recruit Co., Ltd., Samsung Europe and Vodafone.
Omniture continues to raise the bar for this industry, exemplifying thought leadership and displaying technological expertise with the release of several major product offerings including: SiteCatalyst 14, SearchCenter 3 and Test&Target. The company’s award-winning suite of online business optimization services allows companies to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web site. This information is then used to enhance marketing and sales initiatives, measure trends and measure consumer behavior in real-time—thus having a positive effect on the bottom line.
Today, Omniture manages over 2.25 petabytes of data for its customers—far outpacing the competition. The company not only offers best-in-class technology, but also dedicates significant resources to customer training and consulting services. Omniture University™ and the Omniture Best Practices Group not only provide guidance on how to gather and analyze Web site data, but also educate customers on how to take action on that data to drive revenue from their online channels.
Total revenue for 2007 was $143.1 million, an increase of 79 percent over 2006. Revenue for 2006 was $79.2 million. According to market research firm IDC, Omniture grew at more than three times the rate of the overall market for Web analytics, significantly outpacing its competitors. Omniture has grown from 350 employees last year to more than 1000 employees today.
- List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
Omniture and Baidu.com bring web analytics to China http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=25695
Presenting the 2008 Fast 50 http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50_08/omniture.html
Borders Hires Omniture for Web Analytics http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=74048&passFuseAction=PublicationsSearch .showSearchReslts&art_searched=omniture&page_number=0
The key to monetizing social networks http://technologyweekly.mad.co.uk/Main/Home/Articlex/b801914179e640a0b5c7fe9cb 944af3e/The-key-to-monetising-social-networks.html
Stocked Up http://www.electronicretailermag.com/info/0208_stock.html
NHL.com turns to analytics to check online consumer access points http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=24117
Omniture practices what it preaches http://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20071008/FREE/71008037/1007/METRICS
The Walt Disney Internet Group Selects Omniture SiteCatalyst to Optimize the Customer Experience Across All of Its Online Properties http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/123336.php
Omniture: A Radar Screen For E-biz http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_18/b4032074.htm? chan=top+news_top+news+index_technology
Omniture Completes Acquisition of Visual Sciences http://www.omniture.com/press/455
Omniture Emerged as the Worldwide Market Leader for Web Analytics in 2006 http://www.omniture.com/press/442
Omniture Genesis Network Surpasses 100 Marketing Integration Partners http://www.omniture.com/press/439
Omniture CEO Inducted Into Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame http://www.omniture.com/press/428
Software Magazine Ranks Omniture As One of the World’s Top 10 Growth Companies http://www.omniture.com/press/404
Omniture Names a Web Analytics Leader by Independent Research Firm http://www.omniture.com/press/389
Omniture Acquires Offermatica http://www.omniture.com/press/384
Omniture is the Number One Web Analytics Provider to the World’s Leading Retail Brands http://www.omniture.com/press/352
- Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:
Joshua James has been the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Omniture since 1998. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. James co-founded and co-managed several entities that were predecessors to Omniture. Mr. James also served on the Brigham Young University eBusiness Advisory Board, is a Silver Founder of the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship, and served as the Chairman of former Utah State Governor Leavitt's Utah Silicon Valley Alliance Entrepreneur Committee. He has lectured for numerous university classes and served on several other industry, advisory and private company boards. Mr. James attended Brigham Young University.
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