Broadvision

A family of e-business applications from BroadVision, Inc., Redwood City, CA www.broadvision.com) that provide the tools to develop a complete, commercial Web site. The suite of integrated and self-service applications includes BroadVision Process; Commerce; Content; and Portal, all of which can be client-customized.

Another notable Broadvision product is Quicksilver 2.0, acquired from Interleaf in 2000, and a well-known authoring tool that allows the creation of long, complex documents in multiple output formats. No re-tagging or reformatting of information is necessary for this instant Web publishing scenario. Broadvision was founded in 1993 and initially developed interactive TV applications.

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BroadVision NASDAQ: BVSN is an international software vendor of self service web applications for electronic commerce, Enterprise Portals, CRM. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. It was founded in 1993 by Pehong Chen. The company's initial public offering was in 1996.

BroadVision was a pioneer in eCommerce in the 1990s, and its stock was a high flyer during the dot-com bubble, reaching a split-adjusted high of over $20,000 per share in March of 2000.^[1] After the bubble bust, Broadvision struggled, and its stock was delisted from the Nasdaq for a period of time. One of BroadVision's most famous clients during the dot com bubble was pets.com. Current customers include Air France, Asda, Circuit City, City of Chicago, Gwinnett County, ING Group, Long's Drugs, Pillsbury Winthrop, Rand McNally, RS Components, State of California, Indian Railways, Highmark Insurance, and Medco Health Solutions.

The company's latest product is an addition to BroadVision eCommerce suite, BroadVision eMerchandising. The company's latest solution is called Clearvale, BroadVision's Enterprise Social Networking platform available under a SaaS model.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=bvsn#chart1:symbol=bvsn;range=my Yahoo! Finance
2. ^ http://www.broadvision.com/en/software-solutions/saas/clearvale

External links

• BroadVision's official website
• BroadVision Clearvale

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