information access founded 1999 headquarters cambridge massachusetts united states area served americas europe asia australia key people steve papa ceo dan demmer president & cfo products endeca information access platform guided navigation search engines endeca developer studio parent oracle corporation website http www.endeca.com endeca was a software company headquartered in cambridge massachusetts that sold ecommerce search customer experience management enterprise search and business intelligence applications . endeca was founded in 1999 and was a privately held company backed by venture capital investment from bessemer dn capital in q tel intel sap and venrock . 1 on october 18 2011 oracle corporation announced its acquisition of endeca for 1.075 b. 2 endeca is recognized as a pioneer of faceted search particularly in the context of electronic commerce 3 and online libraries . 4 it claims that over 600 customers including manufacturers ecommerce sites media sites and u.s. intelligence services are using its information access platform product . 5 it is considered a leader in the enterprise search and information access market by industry analyst firms gartner 6 idc 7 and forrester research 8 the name endeca derives from the german word entdecken meaning to discover . 5 contents 1 acquisition 2 see also 3 references 4 external links acquisition edit on october 18 2011 oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire endeca . the transaction closed on december 5 2011 . 9 see also edit list of enterprise search vendors references edit endeca . crunchbase . retrieved 2011 10 18 . farrell michael b. 2011 10 18 . oracle buys endeca . boston.com . retrieved 2011 10 18 . briggs bill 2009 07 30 . who puts the e in e commerce . internetretailer.com . retrieved 2011 10 18 . toward the next gen catalog . ala techsource . 2006 10 03 . retrieved 2011 10 18 . a b about us company overview . endeca corporate website . retrieved 2011 10 18 . gartner positions endeca in leaders quadrant of 2009 information access technology magic quadrant report . tmcnet . 2009 09 18 . retrieved 2011 10 18 . endeca shortlisted as one of top search vendors by leading market research firm press release . reuters . 2009 09 21 . retrieved 2011 10 18 . the forrester wave & tm ; enterprise search q2 2008 . forrester research . 2008 05 28 . retrieved 2011 10 18 . corporation oracle . oracle and endeca . oracle website . oracle corporation . external links edit corporate website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title endeca & oldid 734088968 categories software companies established in 1999companies based in cambridge massachusettssearch engine softwarehidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 02 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view