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Gartner labels Sitecore cool CMS vendor in latest report

London, UK - 29 April – Sitecore , a provider of web content management (CMS) and portal software, today announced it has signed an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) deal with Intelligent Environment (IE), a leading UK supplier of online software for financial institutions. The announcement was made at Internet World, Earls Court, London taking place 29th April to 1st May.

The agreement comes at the end of an eventful month for Sitecore after it was included in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2008 report published at the start of April.

IE whose customers include four of the top five UK banks, selected Sitecore as a replacement for the interface on their suite of financial applications. Previously IE had been offering customers the ability to change and edit site content themselves using a tool developed in-house. But market demands for ever increasing levels of sophistication and flexibility led IE to seek a specialist content management partner rather than try to continue to enhance their own solution.

“We evaluated a number of content management offerings and were most impressed with Sitecore ,” said Jerry Mulle, sales and marketing director for IE . “In addition to having an outstanding reputation in the market Sitecore also had the flexibility as a company to work with our partnership model which is based on revenues resulting from customer usage rather than large up-front fees.

“This agreement is of major strategic importance as it enables us to focus more on developing further enhancements to our core online software platform,” he added. “At the same time we are able to give our customers a superior content management environment that is more flexible than anything offered by our competitors.”

“We are delighted that IE has become our first major OEM partner in the UK,” said Simon Bartolo, UK managing director of Sitecore . “Our ability to provide a CMS solution that could also be used as a development environment was a key factor as was our tight integration with the Microsoft .NET development platform.

“For IE’s customers in the banking community the security and authentication features of our product are paramount,” he added. “Our CMS allows them to add in their own security modules and this is further testimony to the modularity and flexibility of the Sitecore software environment.

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About IE

AIM listed Intelligent Environment (IE) is a leading provider of online software products for the bank cards and financial investment sectors. Customers include Barclaycard, The Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS, First Data International and The Principality Building Society. IE ’s NetFinance online application and account management software enables blue chip financial providers and their customers to quickly generate new business, improve customer service and reduce costs. NetFinance integrates seamlessly with existing CRM, call centre databases, workflow and back-office systems and provides fast-track implementation, straight-through processing, proven scalability, multi-branding and multi-language capabilities.

About Sitecore

Established in 2001, Sitecore (www.sitecore.net) provides web content management (CMS) and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences. Headquartered in Denmark, Sitecore employs 250 staff located in offices in seven countries with further representation in 40 offices around the world. Sitecore has over 2000 certified developers within 700 partners and 5000 customers worldwide. Sitecore ’s broad range of features, combined with a strong Microsoft .Net-based development architecture, enables marketing people, content editors, other key stakeholders and IT to rapidly implement a successful online business strategy, and to measure and manage ongoing website success.

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