BroadVision is an international software vendor of self-service web applications for

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, electronic commerce,

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s, and

customer relationship management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study big data, large amounts of information. CRM systems data collectio ...

. The company provides applications to businesses. In addition, the company provides toolkit, framework, library for extending its products and services. The company is headquartered in

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, United States. It was founded on May 13, 1993 by

Pehong Chen Pehong Chen (; born 1957) is a Taiwanese-American businessman who co-founded Gain Technology with his Ph.D. advisor Michael A. Harrison and went on to found BroadVision. He currently serves as chairman of the board, president and chief execut ...

, and its

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...

took place in 1996. BroadVision was a pioneer in eCommerce in the 1990s, and its stock was highly valued during the

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, reaching a split-adjusted high of over $20,000 per share in March 2000. After the bubble burst, Broadvision struggled, and its stock was delisted from the Nasdaq for a period. One of BroadVision's most famous clients during the dot com bubble was

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. Customers include

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, Long's Drugs,

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, State of California,

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History

BroadVision, Inc. was set up in 1993. In 1995 its ecommerce services were introduced to the market and the company became public on Nasdaq in the next year. In 2000, it acquired

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and introduced QuickSilver in the same year. During the next ten years, the company extended its market step by step, introducing Clear, Clearvale (cloud-based services), Clearvale Second Floor Speaker Series, Clearvale PaasPort, and Clearvale Express.

Products and services

Applications of the company include business agility suite, ecommerce agility suite for online shopping, Clearvale, Clear (a human resources (HR) management system), QuickSilver (a document publishing system), Kona framework, and eMerchandising (processing sales data) Clearvale is BroadVision's

enterprise social networking Enterprise social networking focuses on the use of online social networks or social relations among people who share business interests and/or activities. Enterprise social networking is often a facility of enterprise social software (regarded as a ...

platform available under a

software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is con ...

model.

References

External links

* {{Official website Companies established in 1993 Companies based in Redwood City, California Companies listed on the Nasdaq