Mercent Corporation - Partnerships

Mercent Corporation - Partnerships

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Mercent partners with online marketplaces, system integrators, resellers, application developers, and others. If you are interested in partnering with Mercent, please contact partners@mercent.com or call 206-832-3900.

Industry Associations

		Shop.org Shop.org is the association for retailers online. It's where the best retail minds come together to garner the insight, knowledge and intelligence to make better decisions in the evolving world of the Internet and Multi-channel retailing.

		National Retail Federation The National Retail Federation is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, independent stores, chain restaurants and grocery stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services. NRF represents an industry with more than 1.4 million U.S. retail establishments, more than 23 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2004 sales of $4.1 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national and international retail associations.

		Direct Marketing Association The Direct Marketing Association is the leading global trade association of business and nonprofit organizations using and supporting direct marketing tools and techniques. DMA advocates industry standards for responsible marketing, promotes relevance as the key to reaching consumers with desirable offers, and provides cutting-edge research, education, and networking opportunities to improve results throughout the entire direct marketing process. Founded in 1917, DMA today has more than 4,800 corporate, affiliate, and chapter members from the US and 46 other nations, including 55 companies listed on the Fortune 100. In 2005, companies spent more than $161 billion on direct marketing in the United States. Measured against total US sales, these advertising expenditures generated $1.85 trillion in increased sales in 2005, or 7% of the $26 trillion in total sales in the US economy (which includes intermediate sales). All together, direct marketing accounted for 10.3% of total US GDP in 2005.

Strategic Partners

		Amazon Services Certified System Integrator Mercent is recognized as an Amazon Services Certified System Integrator and an Amazon Services Certified Independent Software Vendor. In 2002, Amazon.com retained Mercent to write the technical integration documentation for the Merchants@ 3rd Party Sellers program, including Amazon.com's Merchant Integration Guide, Developer's Guide, and Developer's Reference. Mercent clients include leading retailers in every Merchants@ category launched by Amazon.com since November 2002.

		Coremetrics is the leading provider of online marketing optimization solutions. Its solutions generate high return on online marketing investment and continue to pay daily dividends in improved marketing performance. Over 1,000 online business sites, transacting over $15 billion this year, are now using Coremetrics’ Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to optimize online marketing efforts. Coremetrics’ solutions encompass advanced online analytics and precision marketing applications, including search engine bid management, email marketing and cross sell applications to acquire customers more cost effectively, increase conversion rates, and increase lifetime customer value. Clients have recognized over $300M in documented ROI and 87% of clients recognize ROI in 12 weeks or less. The company is privately held with funding from Accel Partners, FTVentures, and Highland Capital Partners and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Coremetrics Marketplace Powered by Mercent helps brand-driven merchants reach millions of online shoppers by placing and merchandising products across leading online marketing channels. For the first time, you can optimize your online product advertising campaigns to key retail metrics including per-SKU (stock-keeping unit) profitability and inventory velocity.

		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 software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service and on-premise solution, enables customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web sites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional services that complement its online services, including implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through Omniture University™. Omniture’s 4,500 customers include AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, General Motors, Sony and HP.

		Mercent and OrderMotion, a division of CommercialWare, Inc., the leading provider of multi-channel commerce infrastructure solutions for retailers, announced the availability of a combined retailing platform that generates, captures and manages online shopping demand. The solution provides merchants with centralized order management and fulfillment and makes merchandise immediately visible to more than 150 million online shoppers.

		Founded in 1998, NetSuite, Inc. is the leading provider of Web-based business solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. NetSuite's award-winning product offerings include NetSuite, NetSuite Small Business, NetCRM, NetERP and NetCommerce. With over 7,500 customers, NetSuite has earned numerous industry awards such as PC Magazine Editors' Choice, Forbes.com Best of the Web, TIME Best Websites for Business, eWEEK Excellence Award, and top honors from the CPA Technology Advisor.

		Amazon Services Certified System Integrator SLI Systems provides site search, site navigation and automated SEO services for online retail and content-rich websites. These solutions are built with patented Learning Search technology – an intelligent search system that learns from customer behavior to increase sales and conversions. Learning Search enhances the user experience while delivering valuable insights on visitor activity, and provides ecommerce sites with advanced merchandising capabilities and intuitive navigation. SLI’s Site Champion service creates optimised pages to increase a retailer’s visibility in natural search engine listings and increase site traffic. Customers like Harry & David, Tupperware, Blair, and hundreds more benefit from SLI Systems’ search technology.

		Microsoft Certified Partner Mercent Corporation is a Microsoft Certified Partner. Mercent Retail is Microsoft .NET-Connected certified platform. Mercent is engaged in the collaborative development of .NET-based Web services with clients, working to expand system capabilities with the new technology.

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