REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 18, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), a global provider of online commerce and business social networking solutions, announced today the successful launch of The Education Center, Inc.'s (hereafter "The Education Center") eCommerce platform onto BroadVision® Commerce Agility Suite 8.2. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, The Education Center is known for producing high-quality, practical and ready-to-use teaching materials. BroadVision's fully integrated and robust eCommerce solution allows The Education Center to continue its mission of providing hundreds of thousands of elementary school teachers throughout the country with quality content, and to help achieve its goal of significantly increasing its interaction and engagement with those teachers.
Known for The Mailbox® teacher idea magazine, The Education Center identified the importance of having a strong, upgraded web platform and sought the most effective method to improve its web presence and e-commerce capabilities. With hundreds of books and a plethora of material to offer teachers around the country, it needed a stable, highly customizable platform to improve its online business. To achieve this, The Education Center decided to implement the Commerce Agility Suite™ solution for its efficiency, performance, ease of use and highly personalized administrative options.
"Our Tri-shore Model, consisting of on-premise, onshore and offshore resources, provided the right blend of skills and experience to implement this next generation eCommerce solution while lowering the overall costs," says Darin Bailey, Account Executive at BroadVision.
The Education Center's newly launched website provides teachers with content dynamically delivered for the teacher's grade level. A new online store with shopping cart functionality, and dynamic, targeted recommendations are all made available through the scalability and flexibility of BroadVision's solution. Finally, The Education Center also plans to implement the BroadVision eMerchandising™ solution in the near future to improve its merchandising offerings.
"Coming from the print world, we realize that it's absolutely imperative to have a strong web presence that complements the services we offer," says Debra Liverman, Internet Administrative Manager at The Education Center. "It was easy for us to choose BroadVision because their solution offered us everything we wanted – we love the flexibility, power, efficiency and stability. On top of that, BroadVision's eMerchandising solution is a perfect fit."
"We look forward to providing additional value and helping The Education Center leverage our solution offerings to further benefit their eCommerce initiatives," says Dr. Pehong Chen, President and CEO of BroadVision. "BroadVision is the pioneer in personalized one-to-one business, providing enterprise-class solutions to customers all over the globe. We take pride in the fact that we're able to offer our services to an organization so committed to improving and modernizing the academic world. Our Commerce Agility Suite and eMerchandising offerings will allow The Education Center to continue providing high quality material tor teachers. BroadVision continues to provide our customers with innovative, targeted business solutions to help transform them in the face of new challenges."
About The Education Center, Inc
The Education Center was founded in 1973 by Marge and Jake Michel and has become one of the nation's leading developers and distributors of supplemental teacher resource materials – in print and online.
For more information about The Education Center, please visit http://www.theeducationcenter.com.
About BroadVision
Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN) is an innovative provider of online commerce and business social networking solutions for organizations seeking to grow profitably by improving online business processes through invited participation and social interaction. Our solutions enables mission-critical e-business or next-generation organizations via business social network for global enterprises including Baker Hughes, BlueCross/BlueShield, Canon, ClubMed, EFG Bank, Epson America, Fiat, GexPro, Hilti, Honeywell, Iberia Airlines, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Company, Lockheed Martin, Oreck Corporation, PETCO, Siemens, SINA, Sony, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., U.S. Navy, Verifone, Vodafone, Xerox and more.
For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650-331-1000, email to mediarelations@broadvision.com or visit www.broadvision.com.
BroadVision is the registered trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Commerce Agility Suite and eMerchandising are trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. The Mailbox is the registered trademark of The Education Center.
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