
Omniture Wins Two Stevie® Awards in the 5th Annual American Business Awards
NEW YORK – June 18, 2007 — Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider of online business optimization software, announced today that its CEO and its president of worldwide sales have been awarded Stevie Awards for excellence in executive and sales executive leadership. Josh James won the honor of Best Executive in the Computer and Software category for his management and leadership skills as the CEO and co-founder of Omniture. For the second year in a row, Chris Harrington, Omniture’s president of worldwide sales, won the Stevie for Best Sales Executive for his leadership in Omniture achieving 86 percent revenue growth in 2006.
James co-founded Omniture in 1996 and has grown the company to become a leader in Web analytics and online business optimization software. As one of the youngest CEOs of a publicly traded company at age 33, he has successfully helped Omniture grow to 465 employees worldwide and more than $79 million in revenue during 2006.
“The momentum and growth of Omniture is due in large part to our great employees,” said James. “This award is a reflection of them and their ability to attract great customers.”
James has been instrumental in directing and growing the company since its beginning and milestones of particular significance during the last year include:
• Omniture’s acquisition of Instadia A/S and Touch Clarity Limited, expanding the geographic footprint and product portfolio of the company
• Omniture’s international geographic expansion to 13 countries
• Doubling the size of Omniture’s customer base to more than 2200 customers
Harrington, whose sales team also won the Stevie Award for the best overall sales team in 2004 and 2005, has been instrumental in consistently leading Omniture’s sales team to achieve their goals and quotas. Through his leadership, Omniture now includes as its customers the following:
• Nine of the top ten automotive Web sites
• The world’s largest corporation and retail site
• The world’s largest e-commerce site
• The Internet’s largest advertiser
• 40 percent of the world’s top 200 Internet retailers
“I’m honored to win this award and want to thank the entire Omniture sales organization for their achievements to this point,” said Harrington. “It’s every salesperson’s dream to work for a great company with great products that attract great customers. We look forward to the completion of an exciting year for Omniture.”
The American Business Awards are hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” and is the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business. More than 2,000 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 award categories. Other winners included such companies as Adobe Systems, American Express, AT&T;, Dow Jones, Eastman Kodak, NEC, salesforce.com, and Sharp Electronics.
About Omniture
Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture’s software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service, enables customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web sites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional services that complement its online services, including implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through Omniture University™. Omniture’s more than 2,200 customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, Countrywide Financial, General Motors, Sony and HP. www.omniture.com
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