London – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Shopzilla, the leading shopping search site, has deployed F5 Acopia ARX intelligent file virtualisation systems as the foundation of its file storage management strategy. Shopzilla is leveraging the F5 Acopia ARX system’s unrivalled data migration, global namespace, and data replication capabilities in order to maintain fast response times and uninterrupted access for its more than 20 million unique visitors each month.

Faced with a major network-attached storage (NAS) upgrade spanning multiple vendor platforms, Shopzilla utilised the F5 Acopia ARX system to migrate files without incurring downtime and without the need to manually reconfigure client systems and applications. Once installed, Shopzilla’s VP, Technology, Burzin Engineer, recognized that the ARX system could help the company meet additional challenges, and Shopzilla began utilising the F5 Acopia ARX system for its global namespace capabilities and data replication as well.

“Every day Shopzilla helps millions of customers find virtually everything for sale on the web, at the best price, with the click of a mouse,” said Engineer. “We also operate BizRate, which collects more than one million new consumer reviews of stores and products each month. Needless to say, our data storage requirements are immense. We recently underwent a significant data migration initiative with the goal of upgrading our NAS systems to store our most critical files, while retaining the lower performing systems for less accessed, less critical data. Anyone that has been through this process knows how complicated, time-consuming, and resource draining it can be. However, by leveraging the F5 Acopia ARX solution and its global namespace capabilities, we were able to easily view and access all our files regardless of where the data was located or what operating system was supporting it.”

Today Shopzilla uses the F5 Acopia ARX systems’ global namespace capabilities to mask the complexity of the physical file server environment underlying Shopzilla’s websites, as well optimise the performance for its millions of web visitors. Additionally, the ARX systems’ data replication capabilities enable Shopzilla to replicate files across heterogeneous storage devices—meaning replicas do not have to reside on the same type of storage device as the source files. These replicas can be accessed in a read-only fashion to ensure availability, but can also be quickly promoted to a read/write status in the event of a failure, data loss, or disaster.

Engineer concluded, “Bottom line, the F5 Acopia ARX system has allowed us to maintain the outstanding user experience our shoppers have come to expect, while controlling costs and dramatically improving ROI.”

“Shopzilla operates an enterprise data centre that rivals the largest and most sophisticated data centres in the world,” said Christopher Lynch, SVP of Data Solutions at F5. “With F5 Acopia, Shopzilla is recognising dramatic savings in both capital expenditures and operational expense while improving service levels and throughput. We are proud to add this exciting company to our impressive group of enthusiastic enterprise customers.”

The study found that just over a third of us only buy presents for people that we deem likely to give a gift reciprocally. Furthermore a third of UK adults admit to feeling intensely and unfairly pressured into buying gifts for their nieces and nephews.

Purchasing gifts for children within families remains a hot topic and source of antagonism for many. Over three quarters of all those surveyed admitting to forgetting a child’s birthday.

Michael O’Shea, founder of Wicked Uncle says: “The problem of deciding what to buy for a child is huge. Making the wrong decision can cause all sorts of outcomes and lead to fraught family relations. Our study found that half of all presents for children are bought within a week of being given and a whopping one in three buy on the day or day before – so the possible margin for error is huge.”

The survey went on to analyse reactions to a ‘bad present choice’ as observed by those presenting the gift. 30% of kids burst into tears on receiving an unwanted present, 18% give the sulky silent treatment and 28% throw a temper tantrum. This left a mere 14% that showed no interest in the gift at all - with 10% believing the child would use the bad gift as a future bargaining tool.

It appears that Brits remain divided when it comes to making excuses for forgetting a child’s birthday. Nearly half of us (48%) confess to using the staple excuse ‘I’ve been too busy at work’. Whereas 40% claim there is absolutely no excuse for missing a child’s birthday and it’s totally unacceptable. Less popular excuses include; illness (5%), travel (3%), lack of love (1%)! and unannounced surprise parties (1%).

The report also looked at the social pressures surrounding present buying versus growing commercialisation within the UK. 56% of UK adults feel that media hype and aggressive corporate marketing campaigns are collectively leading to an erosion of childhood. Over two thirds (68%) stated that they feel under immense pressure to spend more on a child’s present year on year.

However, when questioned it transpires that half of all presents bought for children are still under £20.00 in value. In contrast to this 1-in-5 respondents state that £10.00 is sufficient budget in the present buying stakes.

BroadVision, Inc. a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, has announced the release of its eMerchandising 8.1 version and Commerce Agility Suite 8.1.

The eMerchandising and Commerce Agility Suite solutions can help commerce customers add more transactions to each order with value-based selling and also see the ease of development with the Kukini workbench to allow teams to implement new functionality to their sites potentially up to 4x faster than their competitors building from scratch.

Value-Based Selling
Traditionally, commerce solutions easily offer cross-selling and up-selling functionality for an administrator to associate 1+ products to create a selling reference. However, today’s tightening economy and savvy, price-hunting shoppers create a situation where online sellers are looking for new and unique ways to increase revenues from their e-commerce sites and to differentiate their businesses from competitors that are only a click away - eMerchandising provides that solution.

eMerchandising increases orders by up to 15% with incentive messaging and dynamic, contract-based, customer-specific pricing schemes that leverage tiered- and quantity-based pricing incentives. eMerchandising comes with a Web 2.0, user-friendly interface for non-technical, merchandising managers to easily manipulate sale schemes. eMerchandising’s patent-pending arbitration engine processes and messages available incentives to shoppers without impact to the site’s performance. eMerchandising is available for the BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite and non-BroadVision platforms.

Faster Time-to-Market Platform
The Commerce Agility Suite (CAS) 8.1 solution is based on BroadVision’s Kona platform and uses the Eclipse-based Kukini workbench that was released in 2007. CAS provides the key features of an e-commerce site — pricing, catalogue management, shopping cart, checkout and order management capabilities — in a highly flexible structure. Customers can get their sites up and running in record time while tailoring site behaviour to their business’ unique requirements. The e-business framework enables customers to extend the Commerce Agility Suite without sacrificing the time-to-market and TCO benefits of a packaged e-commerce application. CAS lets companies manage B2B, B2C and B2B2C channels through a single solution.

Andrea Rubei, BroadVision Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, “We are pleased that customers have already seen the significance of value-based selling to gain more share of wallet for each customer transaction. Particularly in today’s economic times where purchasers – both retail and B2B buyers – are looking for a savings, but the merchant must also keep an eye on his and her margins,”

Rubei concludes, “eMerchandising and Commerce Agility Suite are solutions that do just that. Additionally, with the K2TM toolset, these customers will be able to edge out their competitors in this tight market. We are thrilled to be part of their successes.”

About BroadVision
Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision is a global provider of strategic e-business solutions. Our modular applications and agile toolsets, built on a robust framework for personalisation and self-service, power mission-critical web initiatives that deliver unparalleled value to diverse customers worldwide. Hundreds of organisations, serving over 50 million registered users — including Audible.com, Baker Hughes, Canon, DPD Geopost, EFG Bank, Epson America, Hilti, Japan Airlines, Sony, VeriFone, Vodafone, U.S. Air Force, and Xerox — rely on BroadVision as their platform of choice for e-business.

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San Mateo, Calif. and New York, N.Y. - NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software suites that provide Accounting/ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and Ecommerce software for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, announced that Seabury Group, the leading provider of consulting, investment banking, and restructuring services to the aviation and aerospace industries, has selected NetSuite OneWorld to integrate its business operations across 42 separate companies and subsidiaries. Seabury Group will use NetSuite OneWorld to manage a myriad of back-office and front-office processes, including sales and opportunity tracking, professional services automation, project accounting, time management, HR management, analysis, reporting, multi-location and multicurrency accounting management.

Since its inception as a specialized investment banking and advisory company 12 years ago, Seabury Group has grown its financial services company rapidly. In addition to being the world’s leading airline restructuring firm, the company engages in strategic consulting, financial consulting, investment banking, structured finance, airline planning, labor negotiation, and a variety of aircraft technical services. In all, Seabury Group now represents the combined efforts of more than three-dozen operating companies, and with that growth and complexity came significant operational challenges.

To reduce the complexity of managing a multi-company operation, Seabury turned to NetSuite to leverage a more complete services industry software suite. The integrated, multi-location, multicurrency accounting capabilities will make it easy for the financial services holding company to roll up the 42 different companies and subsidiaries which comprise the group into the U.S.-based parent. These capabilities are not available on most mid-market software packages and would require very significant expenditure of time, money, and other resources to provide them on conventional, on-premise ERP systems like Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains and SAP.

NetSuite’s professional services automation, project accounting and time management functionality can save time and increase productivity over other silo applications. Working with NetSuite Professional Services, Seabury is implementing project accounting management controls and time management analysis tools which will enable it to track the real-time status of each of its client engagements, including complete activity costing going back to the initial prospecting engagement. The improved project accounting and time management controls promises to eliminate Seabury’s invoicing lag, putting the company months ahead of the curve on business generation and expense reconciliation.

“In just the past two and a half years, our business has grown and our horizons have broadened so much that we simply could not reconcile our entities properly any longer,” said Martin Wills, CIO and chief administrative officer at Seabury Group. “We needed a solution which would allow multiple employees around the globe to share client projects on a real-time basis. With NetSuite OneWorld, Seabury Group will not just be deal-driven anymore. We will be opportunity-driven, with more complete insight into the true profit potential of all our client opportunities.”

In addition, Seabury Group gained a human resources system with strategic planning capabilities, a key feature for a company with more than 155 employees and growing. This will provide the company improved visibility and assistance in negotiating and planning benefits offerings such as insurance and retirement savings. The real-time, multicurrency accounting capability of NetSuite services industry software helps Seabury nimbly reallocate its human capital where it can be most profitable, taking advantage of shifts in the value of the dollar and the euro to reassign staff to the most appropriate geographies. With NetSuite OneWorld, Seabury Group is poised to maintain a leading position and continue its intelligent, managed growth into the future as the aviation industry consolidates and evolves.

NetSuite OneWorld enables companies to manage their multi-national and multi-subsidiary business operations in real-time around the globe. It allows business to manage end-to-end business operations for their multiple subsidiaries, business units, and legal entities all from a single NetSuite account in a single database instance. NetSuite OneWorld delivers deep and locally/nationally appropriate functionality (currency, taxation, language, reporting, dashboards, etc.) while providing for instantaneous global roll-up, visibility and compliance management. NetSuite’s native Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model enables the NetSuite OneWorld functionality to be accessed anywhere simply by opening a Web browser, and eliminates the enormous IT issues associated with traditional approaches to global business management. NetSuite OneWorld targets mid-market companies having challenges in costs, complexity, limited consolidations and disintegration with traditional ERP applications such as Microsoft Dynamics and SAP. For more information about NetSuite OneWorld, please visit www.netsuite.com/OneWorld.

About Seabury Group
Seabury Group’s principal business is the Aviation & Aerospace Group, which is the leading independent investment banking and advisory group serving aviation, aerospace, and cargo on a global basis. That group’s practices span investment banking, corporate transformation, and management consulting. Seabury Group was awarded Airfinance Journal’s “North American Deal of the Year” for the equity rights offering the firm structured and placed for Northwest Airlines in 2007. With more than 155 professionals dedicated to aviation and aerospace, Seabury has now advised over 150 clients worldwide in over 400 engagements spanning Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. In 2007 Seabury set up a parallel investment banking group, SeaCap Securities LLC, to house its investment banking and advisory services provided to financial institutions, insurance companies and institutional investors in the financial, insurance, maritime, travel and hospitality industries. Seabury and SeaCap also structure and manage portfolios of financial and life insurance assets. For more information, please see: http://www.seaburygroup.com.

About NetSuite
NetSuite Inc. is a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software suites for small and midsized businesses and divisions of large companies. NetSuite enables companies to manage core business operations in a single system, which includes Accounting / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Ecommerce. NetSuite’s patent-pending “real-time dashboard” technology provides an easy-to-use view into up-to-date, role-specific business information.

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