Online book retailer Bokus prepares for the future with Apptus eSales

July 05 | eCommerce, personalise, recommendations,

Apptus eSales displays the right products to the right shoppers at the right time

Lund, Sweden, July 5, 2010 – Apptus Technologies AB, a leading provider of eCommerce search and recommendations solutions, today announced that Bokus (www.bokus.com) has launched their new-look eCommerce website incorporating Apptus eSales, its new personalised search and recommendations suite.

Bokus is one of Sweden’s largest online book retailers, carrying nearly 6 million titles.  In 2009, their eCommerce site received up to 80,000 visitors per day and delivered 8,000 – 15,000 books per day, using an early product from Apptus for their site search and navigation.  After merging with Akademibokhandeln in 2008, Bokus embarked upon a significant redesign of their existing website, including a competitive re-evaluation of both organisations’ eCommerce suppliers.

Europe’s leading search technology company Apptus, offers a safe passage for all users of FAST on Linux and Unix to Apptus’ search platform Theca.

June 21 | Online directories, Search,

Apptus, Europe’s leading developer of search and content enrichment services for online directories, today announced that they will offer all users of the FAST Enterprise Search Platform to replace it with their own platform Theca at no cost for licenses. The announcement was made as a response to the spring news that FAST’s present owner Microsoft will abandon all further Unix and Linux platform support for FAST.

One of the world’s largest providers of mobile devices chooses Apptus

April 28 | eCommerce, recommendations, Search,

One of the world’s largest global providers of mobile multimedia devices has chosen Apptus Technologies to create a search and recommendation engine for their mobile entertainment portal. The portal is a vital part of the mobile device provider’s strategy to broaden their offering.

Leading Directory and Search Service Provider Fonecta boost search hit rate with Apptus

February 08 | content, keywords, Online directories,

Fonecta, Finland’s leading Directory and Search Service Provider, has chosen Apptus to enrich their taxonomy and make searches more accurate. With Apptus Taxonomy Enrichment they have now dramatically reduced the number of no hits by automatically increasing the number of relevant searchable keywords.

“Apptus Taxonomy Enrichment was the only tool that worked according to our needs. For example, it’s the only tool that has a fully functional keyword suggestion feature, which was on of our most important requirements. And Apptus’ project management and support was the best of all our pilots.” says Saara Hyvönen, Service Development Manager at Fonecta.

One of the leading European suppliers of IT infrastructure Atea chooses Apptus to create a more intelligent e-commerce solution

November 30 | B2B, eCommerce,

Atea, the leading Nordic and Baltic supplier of IT infrastructure products and services, have chosen Apptus to develop a more intelligent solution for their e-commerce system on the Nordic and Baltic market. With the improved system Atea will be able to automatically change the content of the site for specific users with individual product, price and shipping agreements.

”We conducted a thorough evaluation of all the suppliers on market and found that Apptus (with its competence and the resources) is the best alternative to deliver a solution that met our needs, timeframe and budget.” says Zlatko Ninic, CIO at Atea.