WebSideStory is Best Software Company of the Year

SAN DIEGO - WebSideStory, Inc., a leading provider of real-time customer intelligence solutions, has been named “Software Company of the Year” for 2007 by the Technology Council of Southern California. The award was given to WebSideStory by a panel of judges based on the company’s aggregate ratings in numerous categories, including annual sales and revenue growth, team-building skills, product innovation, positive effect on the technology industry within the Southern California region, industry trade organizations and community involvement. Winners of the 13th Annual Technology Awards were presented at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, March 7 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

“We’re honored the Technology Council of Southern California has recognized WebSideStory and Visual Sciences for its unique ability to help businesses gain competitive insight through a comprehensive view of their customers’ interactions across multiple channels,” said Jim MacIntyre, president and chief executive officer of WebSideStory. “At the core of our success is our innovative and proven technology platform that empowers our clients to uncover value with real-time data analysis capabilities that are unmatched in the industry.”

The company has a 10-year track record of innovation, growth and success. More than 1,500 enterprises worldwide rely on its analytics applications and technology platform to get real-time answers from petabytes of streaming data. “The fourth quarter of 2006 was one of our most successful quarters. We added 115 new enterprise customers directly, more than 150 new customers through distribution partnerships, and completed more than 345 new sales transactions,” added MacIntyre.

“The Technology Council of Southern California has been impressed with WebSideStory’s track record of innovation in providing data-driven organizations with solutions that offer competitive insight,” said Jon Kraft, chairman of the Technology Council of Software Council of Southern California. “For more than a decade the company has been an active contributor to Southern California’s technology and Web analytics communities, providing educational programs and consulting services to its customers.”

The Technology Council of Southern California award comes on the heels of several other recent honors for WebSideStory and Visual Sciences. In January, the company was named by ASPNews.com as one of the world’s 25 leading service providers in the SaaS (software-as-a-service) industry and a top 50 global ASP (application service provider) overall for the sixth consecutive year. The company is a “Best Enterprise Search Engine” category finalist in the 2007 Codie Awards presented by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Additionally, KMWorld included WebSideStory in its annual list of “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management” for delivering innovative analytics-driven applications to the market.