ATG Opens Second Education Center for IBM Software
San Francisco Center to Help Customers Maximize ATG Deployments on IBM WebSphere
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2004--ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG), the software provider behind the Web's richest customer experiences, today announced that it has opened an Educational Center for IBM Software in San Francisco. Providing end-user and technical training for IBM's WebSphere(1) software portfolio, the San Francisco center is the second to be opened by ATG. The company opened an education center at its headquarters in Cambridge, MA in November 2003.
As an authorized Education Center for IBM Software, ATG leverages courseware developed by IBM to help customers more effectively capitalize on the functionality of the IBM WebSphere platform. By providing these educational opportunities at the foundation layer, ATG customers in vertical industries such as retail, travel and financial services are able to further leverage the ATG Customer Experience Platform to drive online marketing, sales and service initiatives.
"In order to realize the business benefits of our online channel, our organization must be capable of maximizing the capabilities of our IT infrastructure," said Gary Bent, system architect at ATG customer Cushman and Wakefield. "The ATG Education Center for IBM Software offers the level of insightful instruction and material that provides our IT professionals with a foundation of knowledge for working with WebSphere."
Through the San Francisco Education Center, ATG Education will be offering training for WebSphere System Administrators, WebSphere Developers and WebSphere Portal Developers. Among the courses offered is "Administration of WebSphere Application Server V5," which teaches end-users the finer points of installing, configuring and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V5.
"The ways in which organizations interact with customers online is rapidly changing and ATG is dedicated to providing our customers and partners with access to the knowledge and skills necessary to optimize their online initiatives," said Pat Durant, senior manager of education at ATG. "For ATG customers in the San Francisco area who have either deployed or migrated to IBM WebSphere, this new Education Center will become a valuable resource to their IT departments."
For more information on ATG Education, including details on the Education Centers for IBM Software, please visit the ATG Web site at: http://www.atg.com/en/education/courses/websphere.jhtml.
About ATG
ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) delivers innovative software to help high-end consumer-facing companies create a richer, more adaptive interactive experience for their customers and partners online and via other channels. ATG has delivered category-leading e-business solutions to many of the world's best-known brands including A&E Television, Aetna Services, Inc., Alcatel, American Airlines, Barclays Global Investors, Best Buy, BMG Direct, Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Credit, HSBC, Hyatt, J.Crew, Merrill Lynch, Newell Rubbermaid, Target, U.S. Army, and Walgreen Company. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information about ATG, please visit www.atg.com.
About Education Centers for IBM Software
Modeled after the proven Lotus Authorized Education Centers (LAEC) initiative, the Education Centers for IBM Software (ECIS) initiative creates an IBM software training channel and provides additional revenue opportunities for existing LAECs, Tivoli Authorized Training Partners, IBM Business Partners, training companies and services companies who deliver training. The Education Centers for IBM Software initiative creates a global education delivery model focused on increasing skills related to IBM software products, solutions, and technologies; and provides IBM customers in all markets with increased access to training.
(C)2004 Art Technology Group, Inc. ATG and Art Technology Group are registered trademarks of Art Technology Group, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause ATG's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risk factors affecting ATG's business generally may be found in their periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov. Risk factors related to the subject matter of this press release include, but are not limited to, the possibility that the changes in the ATG/IBM relationship in the future may affect the availability or content of courses described herein or ATG's ability to offer IBM products; that IBM product offerings may change in the future; that implementation results among customers following use or nonuse of classes described herein may vary; or that ATG product offerings may change in the future affecting the availability or utility of the classes described herein. ATG undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.
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Tucker Walsh, 617-386-1159
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