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NET PERCEPTIONS POSITIONED TO BE LEAD SOLUTION FOR PERSONALIZATION THROUGHOUT ASIA NET PERCEPTIONS ADDS DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS IN HONG Kong, China, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore
Mon Jan 31 12:49:00 EST 2000
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 31, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In a decisive
move to be the primary source for realtime personalization technology
in the burgeoning Asian Internet economy, Net Perceptions (Nasdaq:
NETP), the pioneer and leading provider of personalization solutions,
has signed partner agreements with three Asian resellers for
distribution and support of Net Perceptions' technology throughout
China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. With exponential
e-commerce growth anticipated throughout Asia in the next few years,
this move strategically positions Net Perceptions well ahead of other
players in the personalization arena.
"The Asia Pacific markets offer explosive growth opportunities for our
personalization technology," said Net Perceptions CEO and president,
Steven Snyder. "E-commerce in Asia is expected to reach $32 billion by
2003. Clearly, Asia is a huge untapped market for personalization.
Being there now, with this level of coverage, gives us a tremendous
advantage."
The new Net Perceptions resellers include DACOM System Technologies
Ltd., MPC Ltd. and the Web Connection. All three companies will market
Net Perceptions for e-Commerce and Net Perceptions for Call Centers to
the Korean market, focusing on each of their individual areas of
expertise. Additionally, the Web Connection will represent Net
Perceptions products out of their base in Hong Kong as well as through
their offices in China, Taiwan and Singapore.
Based on the terms of the agreements, Net Perceptions customers and
prospects will be able to license Net Perceptions realtime
personalization technology from these e-commerce solutions providers
and receive local support in their native language. With ten times the
customer base of its closest competitor, the announcements greatly
expand Net Perceptions' position as the world's preeminent source for
realtime personalization solutions.
Goldman Sachs' Asian Internet analyst, Rajeev Gupta agrees, adding,
"E-commerce in Asia is still in its infancy but is expected to go
through explosive growth in a very short period of time. While
consumers and businesses will likely all benefit from the growth in
e-commerce, the real winners will be those companies that become
implementers of Internet strategies for e-commerce. To ensure their
long-term success, we believe alliances with 'best of breed' partners
like Net Perceptions differentiates and adds value to those companies
seeking to build successful Asian e-commerce strategies."
The Web Connection, established in 1995, offers strategic Internet
solutions for major corporations and dot-com startups that recognize
the power of the Internet as a business platform and customer
relationship management channel. The Web Connection brings together
core competencies in digital strategy, technology integration, creative
design and online marketing.
"Asia is experiencing huge demand for web-based portals and
personalized e-commerce," said president and COO, Steve McKay. "Net
Perceptions is the leader in its market and we are excited to be able
to offer this technology to our clients."
Major Web Connection clients include the Hong Kong Tourist Association,
HSBC, Cathay Pacific, Cisco Systems, General Motors, IBM, Mandarin
Oriental Hotel Group and KLM. The Web Connection has more than 400
staff across Asia with offices in Hong Kong, China Singapore, Japan,
Taiwan and Korea, and is part of chinadotcom corporation (Nasdaq:
CHINA), Asia's leading integrated Internet company. For more
information, please visit the Web Connection at twc-asia.com
or call 852 2862 9066.
DACOM System Technologies Ltd. (DST) is a joint venture of DACOM Corp.,
Korea's second largest telecommunications provider and
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the world's leading professional services
organization.
"Net Perceptions' realtime personalization technology meets our
criteria to only provide the best possible counsel and services to our
customers," said Jae-seok Change, senior vice president, DST. "This is
an exciting addition to our service offering, and we anticipate it will
generate a great deal of interest from both our current and prospective
customers."
Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, DST is a world-class specialty IT
service provider. DST offers outsourcing, consulting and system
integration to the telecommunications/ICE, banking/finance and
government/public sectors. DST's strategic partners include Genesys
Telecommunications Lab., Smallworld Systems, 3Com, Cisco Systems,
Vantive, OSI, Inktomi, etc. For more information, please visit DST at (
dacomst.com ) or call 82-2-2185-1697.
MPC (Marketing Pioneer Corporate) was founded in 1991, and is the
largest and most innovative call center system integration and service
outsourcing company in South Korea. MPC was Korea's first call center
business and is at the vanguard of its telemarketing industry.
"The need for individualized one-to-one marketing is a huge growth
opportunity for MPC," said J.Y Park, MPC director. "MPC is working
aggressively to expand our services as an e-commerce, one-to-one
marketing solution provider. We see our new partnership with Net
Perceptions as essential to achieving that objective. Many of our
direct mail and internet shopping mall customers and prospects have
already expressed an interest in this type of one-to-one, realtime
personalization service, and we're pleased to be one of the first
companies to offer it to them."
MPC provides both in/outbound call center services outsourcing, and
call center system integration. MPC's vision is that the call center is
the main source to manage all kinds of relationships between customers
and the company. MPC provides the total solution needed to manage every
customer contact, including e-commerce-based customer contact. MPS
clients cover a variety of businesses including: insurance, banking,
securities, life insurance, telecommunication, credit card,
newspaper/publishing, broadcasting, computer manufacturing, marketing,
schools, travel, manufacturing. For more information, please visit MPC
at ( callcenter.co.kr ) or call 82-2-3401-4114.
The announcement of the three new resellers follows the December grand
opening of Net Perceptions Japan, a joint venture Trans Cosmos, NTT
Software and Toyo Information Systems.
"We received a great deal of interest from resellers throughout Asia
for rights to sell our technology," concluded Snyder. "I'm pleased to
be able to announce partnerships with such excellent companies. This
provides us with tremendous leverage in the Pan Asian marketplace." |
