WebResults - Web Analytics Monthly Newsletter
WebTrends WebResults September 2007
WebTrends Named a Market Leader:
Cited as Setting the Standard for Measuring Visitor Engagement

WebTrends was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its September 2007 Forrester Wave report, The Forrester Wave™: Web Analytics, Q3 2007. In this evaluation, WebTrends ranked number one for Market Presence and was cited as a leader in Current Offering and Strategy.

WebTrends received the highest score for Integration, "Overall, WebTrends Marketing Lab 2 is a full-featured Web analytics platform that gives clients extensive power and the ability to customize the platform to meet any special needs that may exist."

WebTrends also received highest scores for Industry Presence and Installed Base, reflecting its strong global presence across consumer packaged goods, financial services, media, retail, travel and hospitality, and technology and telecom industries.

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New Resources
Introducing an Integrated, Flexible Way to Connect the Marketing Applications You Use Most.
WebTrends Open Exchange brings together world-class technology partners to boost your overall marketing performance

WebTrends has partnered with the leaders in online marketing technologies to provide integrated solutions for our customers. We work with partner organizations to address your specific needs, so you can leverage web analytics to power your marketing—and your business can reach new levels of performance and automation.

What makes Open Exchange unique?
It's based on the most customer-centric approach to web metrics: visitor-level data is the basis for the most accurate and actionable intelligence.
It leverages an open platform based on standardized formats for exchanging data, such as ODBC and web services APIs, rather than demanding that you fit into a proprietary system.
It provides flexible and customizable solutions based on your specific business requirements—it's never a one-size-fits-all approach.
It includes many solutions around your entire online marketing ecosystem, with a select set of best-of-breed partners to define and deliver the best possible joint solution.

So find out how integrating these leading technology partners can improve your customer relationships and boost your overall marketing results. With these partnerships, you'll be able to get more out of the solutions you use most, including:

Ad serving
Content management
Customer relationship management
Email marketing
Enterprise campaign management
Site search
Targeting and optimization
User experience
Web site monitoring

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Around the world, marketers are discovering how to move beyond web analytics to optimize every interaction with customers.

The new WebTrends Marketing Lab 2 can help you use deep insight into customer interests, over time, to engage and motivate them to act. Learn how this suite of solutions helps you drive targeted marketing and personalized online experiences-and see how it helps your entire organization optimize online business results.

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Headlines

DMA: Catalogers Embrace Integration
Chantal Todé, (DM News)
More than half of multichannel merchants within the catalog industry have fully integrated their marketing and advertising, product selection, pricing, fulfillment, and shipping and handling policies, according to a new report from the Direct Marketing Association.

CRM Should Be Your First SOA Application
Mike Betzer and Stephanie McReynolds, (Oracle Corp.)
Gartner recently predicted that 50 percent of all new mission-critical applications and technology initiatives will be based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). That said, all of the leading enterprise vendors are touting SOA infrastructures, which promise the development of modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, creating a truly flexible, and adaptable IT infrastructure. Because an SOA infrastructure can lead to significant time and cost savings, Information Technology (IT) organizations can focus more resources and budget on innovation and on delivering new business services.

Online Behavioral Ads Beat Contextual Ads, Survey Says
By K.C. Jones, (InformationWeek)
Online consumers are more receptive to behaviorally targeted ads than to contextual advertising, according to a new study.


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