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

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s, and

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. 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, and its

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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 pets.com. Customers include

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, Pillsbury Winthrop,

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, Hamleys).

History

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

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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 platform available under a

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model.

References

External links

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