At BlueSky, the term "partners" is not taken lightly. Partnering is part of our foundation and belief system. From employees, to vendors, to clients and our technology partners, we treat every part of our value chain as a partnership. Notably, the following collection of partners allows BlueSky to maintain market awareness and provide best in class solutions:
As a Premier Business Partner, BlueSky leverages the partnership with IBM to offer state of the art solutions tailored to the needs of our customers. IBM brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise, as well their continuous R&D efforts to enhance and offer new products that can be leveraged in Enterprise Applications. IBM is the leader in the Commerce Marketplace with the WebSphere product line.
One of the world's largest global distributors of electronic parts, enterprise computing and storage products and embedded subsystems, Avnet provides a vital link in the technology supply chain. BlueSky's partnership with Avnet allows us to provide our customers with products to enhance their overall solution.
As one of the country's first providers of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, BlueLock is redefining how companies provision and manage their technology infrastructures. BlueLock delivers pre-configured, secure, and resilient virtual IT environments which scale on-demand. Our unique cloud computing and hosted environments enable you to focus your resources on growth, rather than depreciating hardware. The partnership between BlueSky and BlueLock allows us to provide the necessary hosting services and application support required to keep your enterprise solution up and running.
As a national leader in online strategies and full-service creative solutions, MediaSauce helps you build lasting connections that will drive your business during the Interconnected Age. BlueSky's partnership with MediaSauce allows us to provide our customers with complete solutions that include creative aspects tied to a new or existing marketing strategy.
Bazaarvoice's Software as a Service (SaaS) social commerce solutions have served more than 100 billion pieces of customer-generated content on more than 800 brand web sites in 36 countries. The company connects organizations to their influencers through a unique network that reaches hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe, enabling authentic customer-powered marketing. Through syndication, analytics, partnerships, and consulting, Bazaarvoice brings the voice of the customer to the center of their clients' business strategy, proving "social" can drive measured revenue growth and cost savings for manufacturing, retail, travel, and financial services companies.
Coremetrics is the leader in marketing optimization. Its products help businesses relentlessly optimize their marketing programs to make the best offer, every time, anywhere, automatically. Our solutions help companies measure and improve the effectiveness of online marketing programs, directly improving their bottom line. BlueSky's partnership with CoreMetrics allows us to provide these services integrated with your solution to meet your marketing objectives.
Endeca is a search applications company. The company was founded to deliver software that helps people make better daily decisions from large volumes of diverse and changing information. For eCommerce or media websites, Endeca's software helps your customers find what they are looking for faster and make better buying choices, thus increasing your revenue. BlueSky's partnership with Endeca allows us to integrate the powerful search capabilities of Endeca with your commerce application.
Tacton Configurator simplifies and expedites the configuration, pricing and quotation of complex products and services. The configurator integrates flexibly into any environment and accelerates sales cycles, reducing the risk of missed opportunities, eliminating order inaccuracies and improving sales margins. BlueSky has partnered with Tacton to provide their unique sales tool and services in an integrated commerce solution.
Heiler Software is a leading provider of enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) solutions for the Retail/e-Tail and Distribution markets. PIM has entered the minds of business leaders and is considered a top initiative for strategic technology and best practices. Organizations are enthusiastically looking to product information as a key to cut costs, meet customer demands, enhance marketing and sales performance, and find new revenue opportunities. Organizations must deal with the rising volume and complexity of product information relating to day-to-day operations. PIM systems have evolved into a combination of technology and process which far exceed the capabilities of standard product repositories found in ERP and legacy platforms and is designed to support or supplement services for these systems. Most companies have realized a 12 month return on investment enabled by the increase in revenue delivered by reaching new markets with a broader set of products that have complete and accurate information.
Simplifying Payment Management is the name of their game. CyberSource has revolutionized the payment services industry by providing a complete portfolio of services that simplify and automate payment operations. CyberSource brings Global Payment Services via Credit Card processing, Electronic Check Processing, Recurring Billing Service, Bill Me Later ®, PayPal, and Automated Payment Reconciliation. They also focus on Risk Management with a Global Fraud Management Portal, Fraud Screening, and Payer Authentication programs to create a fully managed system for your entire order lifecycle, worldwide. CyberSource works to streamline order checkout processes to create the safest and most efficient order checkout process from the smallest to global-sized merchants.
