Digital River Expands E-Commerce Agreement with Computer Associates
MINNEAPOLIS, January 10, 2005-- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced it has signed an expanded e-commerce agreement with Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA). Digital River has built and is hosting online software stores for CA's small to medium business products (http://ca.com/store) in North America and for its consumer products (http:// ca.com/consumer) . Under the expanded agreement, Digital River will create and host online stores for CA in global markets. The launch of online stores in worldwide markets will be timed based upon product mix and market conditions.
“With fully integrated e-commerce technologies, services and go-to-market expertise, Digital River is uniquely positioned to help companies acquire new customers, build customer loyalty and drive global online revenue growth,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River's CEO. “Our relationship with CA provides important proof not only to the breadth of our services, but also to the reliability and scalability of our global e-commerce platform.”
CA will use Digital River's e-commerce services to support the online sales and marketing of its industry-leading software solutions for SMB and consumer markets. These services are based on Digital River's e-commerce platform, which combines online merchandising, Web analytics and advanced direct marketing techniques to help companies drive customer acquisition and retention.
Software purchased from CA online is available via physical delivery or FTP download. The sites are designed to support individual and volume license purchases, maintenance renewals, subscriptions and trial offers. In addition to building and hosting the sites, Digital River is providing order management, 24x7 customer service, e-marketing and fraud detection.
About Digital River
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company's comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, site merchandising, advanced reporting and analytics, product fulfillment, e-marketing and multi-lingual customer service.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. and European cities. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
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