I came across this evaluation of the major search and merchandizing players recently, makes for interesting reading. If any customers or partners of Portaltech would like to see the full report drop me an email at mark.adams@portaltech.co.uk.
I’ve summarised the key finding below:
- Five eCommerce search engine solutions were reviewed by Patricia Seybold Group ,they were Celebros, Endeca, Fred Hopper, Mercado, and SLI Systems.
- The analyses compared each technology against 230 criteria covering 6 core categories: Seeker Interface, Seeker Experience, Marketing Management, Information Collection Management, Architecture and Product and Company Viability.
Across the 230 criteria there were only 65 measurable criteria where all five solution differed. - Fred Hopper excelled in seeker experience and seeker interface, Mercado in seeker experience and information collection, Endeca excelled in architecture and information collection, SLI did well in marketing management and Celebros did well in seeker experience and information collection.
- Overall Fred Hopper came out joint top with Endeca, Mercado and SLI system third and fourth while Celebros was ranked the lowest.
Tags: architecture, Celebros, CMS, Conversion, endeca, engine, Fred Hopper, marketing, Mercado, merchandising, optimisation, personalisation, platform, Portal Tech, Portaltech, retail, retailing, search, search engine optimisation, searchandising, seeker experience, seeker interface, seo, SLI Systems
