Strategic Partnerships

Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online.

Allurent helps leading retailers to create the most compelling online shopping experiences, which lead to more satisfied customers and greater sales. Allurent's innovative e-commerce products deliver rich interactions throughout the shopping life cycle, from browsing to choosing to buying.

Altruik, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology innovator, ensures that search engines will recognize and catalog the hidden data contained in database-driven websites, thus providing e-tailers, government and private sector companies with a simple and effective way to guarantee that their websites are indexed by leading search engines. Website owners can thereby improve their organic search rankings, increase traffic level and, ultimately, increase transactional abilities.

As a full service interactive marketing agency, ARS blends award winning creativity with e-commerce technology to help clients attract more consumers, drive traffic, and increase sales. For that past 20 years ARS has been a trusted partner for leading retailers, etailers, and brands.

Based in Bainbridge Island, WA, Avalara is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes by delivering advanced technology solutions that provide the fastest, easiest, most accurate and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Chosen by nearly 10,000 businesses throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad, and a trusted provider of over 200 million sales tax calculations annually, Avalara is the recognized leader in web-based sales tax services and solutions.

CardinalCommerce's global-leading technologies, Cardinal Centinel®* and Cardinal MAX™, enable authenticated payments; secure transactions, and alternative payment brands for both e-commerce and mobile commerce. CardinalCommerce's patented platform, Cardinal Centinel, allows merchants to accept all online payment methods, while providing access to other valuable products, independent of gateways, shopping carts, and processors.

Compendium Blogware is the only Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) blogging platform built for businesses. Compendium helps companies target keywords that their prospects are searching for through blogging.

e-Dialog is a proven provider of intelligent email marketing solutions. Through a unique combination of strategic services and relevance enabling technologies, e-Dialog empowers marketers to take meaningful action on their data in order to deliver contextually targeted communications to customers.

HP servers provide the hardware for Blueport Commerce's backend infrastructure. For e-commerce activities, HP's scalable server architecture can keep customers and staff happy while leaving the door open for future growth and expansion by offering an open-ended, flexible way to provide enhanced processing capabilities and services.

LivePerson is a provider of online engagement solutions that facilitate real-time assistance and expert advice. Connecting businesses and experts with consumers seeking help on the Web, LivePerson's hosted software platform creates more relevant, compelling and personalized online experiences. Every month, LivePerson's intelligent platform helps millions of people succeed online. More than 8,000 companies, including EarthLink, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Qwest, and Verizon, rely on LivePerson to maximize the impact of the online channel. LivePerson is headquartered in New York City.

The Markley Group develops and designs mission-critical real estate while remaining active in the marketplace. They own and operate the largest data center and telecom facility in Boston and the New England Region. The Markley Group is always doing their best staying ahead of the curve, maintaining state-of-the-art facilities with cutting-edge infrastructure and services to accommodate our clients.

The .NET Framework is Microsoft's comprehensive and consistent programming model for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes.

Overdrive Interactive is a full-service online marketing agency based in Boston that helps clients grow their business with engaging and measurable online media, social media and search engine marketing campaigns and services. The agency specializes in creating genuine consumer connections that help companies build their brands, generate leads and drive revenue. Overdrive serves organizations that are seeking a high level of accountability from their marketing firms and advertising investments.

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 78 million active accounts in 190 markets and 19 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global e-commerce. PayPal is an eBay company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payments platform, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later.

PowerReviews provides brands and retailers with a complete solution for consumer product reviews. PowerReviews delivers fully automated and highly accurate reports that brands and retailers can use as the foundation for strong merchandising and product development strategies.

Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions. Performing over 150 million IP audits per year, QualysGuard is the widest deployed on-demand security solution in the world and is utilized by thousands of organizations worldwide.

QualysGuard® allows organizations to strengthen the security of their networks and conduct automated security audits to ensure optimal security and compliance with policies and regulations. Blueport Commerce uses QualysGuard to conduct automated security audits, eliminate threats and maintain a strong network security posture.