Webtrends Listed Among Top Finalists for the 2012 Microsoft Digital …

PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwire – June 26, 2012) – Today, Webtrends, the global leader in digital marketing optimization and relevance through real-time, unified analytics and customer intelligence, announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award.

“It is an honor to be named one of the top finalists for the Digital Marketing Partner of the Year,” said Abed Farhan, vice president of Strategic Alliances for Webtrends. “Our team has worked closely with Microsoft to deliver a world-class, Microsoft-preferred analytics solution for SharePoint 2010. We integrate seamlessly into SharePoint 2010, offering our joint customers valuable measurement, segmentation, and content personalization to optimize their SharePoint initiatives.”

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of nearly 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award recognizes an exceptional partner who has excelled in developing rich Internet solutions that are highly functional, scalable, flexible, and secure through a unified platform for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. The winner developed innovative solutions that helped create engaging user experiences, cut costs, increased business agility, and delivered familiar authoring tools and processes for customers. Other attributes include solutions that help customers develop a compelling web presence including social marketing, rich media and applications, search, digital marketing integration, and analytics. Submitted using SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2010 and FAST technologies, and highlight their ability to solve a customer’s needs for a fully integrated web presence.

“We are proud to recognize our 2012 Partner Award finalists for their outstanding commitments to solving customer challenges,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Our partners are critical to our success as a company, and it is their creativity and innovative thinking in solving the unique needs of our customers that serves as the foundation for mutual, long-term success. We congratulate this year’s finalists on their achievements and look forward to following their continued success in the future.”

Webtrends Analytics for SharePoint 2010 provides quick time to value, with deployment in minutes and compatibility with SharePoint initiatives, whether intranet or customer-facing websites. Webtrends for SharePoint 2010 delivers an intuitive, intelligent business analytics solution that is easily instrumented within SharePoint 2010 administration. Built on the innovative Webtrends Analytics 10 platform, customers can access analytics across digital channels based on data collected through a variety of means including tags, feeds, APIs and public data. 

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.

About Webtrends:

Webtrends powers digital marketing success. Webtrends is at the forefront of real-time digital marketing relevance and customer experience management through unified customer intelligence. Our industry-leading analytics across mobile, social and web enables marketers to optimize campaigns, maximize customer lifetime value and deliver highly relevant digital brand experiences in real-time.

Webtrends dramatically improve digital marketing results for more than 3,500 global brands including, in EMEA and internationally, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, HSBC, ASOS, Orange, T-Mobile, Microsoft, BMW, Toyota, Play.com, AllSaints, The Telegraph, and many more.

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