Digital River Launches E-Commerce Operations for eEye Digital Security
MINNEAPOLIS - Dec. 7, 2006 - Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it is providing e-commerce services for eEye Digital Security®, a leading developer of endpoint security and vulnerability management software solutions. Digital River is managing the online sale, marketing and digital delivery of eEye’s integrated suite of vulnerability management software, which enables organizations to protect their digital assets against security threats. The software titles are being sold at www.eeye.com in an online store built and hosted by Digital River.
“Digital River is dedicated to providing its client with world-class e-commerce services,” said Don Peterson, Digital River’s senior vice president of global client development. “We are leveraging our e-commerce best practices to help eEye tap into the growing potential of the online sales channel. By building and managing an online store that is branded for eEye, we can help the company strengthen its brand recognition, offer a user-friendly shopping experience and reliably deliver its products to its customers - all important elements for successfully selling online.”
In addition to powering the eEye-branded online software store, Digital River is processing order transactions using multiple preferred payment methods as well as providing fraud screening and customer service support. The online store features eEye’s complete product portfolio, including Retina® Network Security Scanner, REM™ Security Management Console, Iris® Network Traffic Analyzer, Blink® endpoint security solutions and SecureIIS™ Web Server Protection. The eEye product suite is used in conjunction with popular tools, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
“We selected Digital River because the company offered all of the services and tools we were looking for in a single e-commerce service provider,” said eEye’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, Kamal Arafeh. “By leveraging Digital River’s e-commerce expertise, we’ve been able to efficiently market, sell and offer downloads of our software online. By outsourcing our e-commerce operation, we can devote our resources to developing our leading endpoint security and vulnerability management software solutions.”
About eEye Digital Security
eEye Digital Security is a leading developer of endpoint security and vulnerability management software solutions, as well as the industry's foremost contributor to security research and education. eEye's award-winning software products provide a complete vulnerability management solution that addresses the full lifecycle of security threats: before, during and after attacks. eEye's customers, Citigroup and US Department of Defense, represent the largest deployments of vulnerability assessment and prevention technology in the private and public sector. eEye protects the networks and digital assets of more than 8,500 corporate and government deployments worldwide, including EDS, Avon, Continental Airlines, Dow Jones, Prudential, University of Miami, Viacom, Vodafone, Warner Music and Wyeth. Founded in 1998, eEye Digital Security is a privately held, venture-backed firm with headquarters in Orange County, California. For more information, please go to www.eEye.com.
About Digital River, Inc.
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, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
Digital River is a registered trademark of Digital River, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.
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