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Market Cap:$55.7M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$35.9M
- Public
- US
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Sure eye for the self service guy! BroadVision, Inc. (OTC: BVSN) deals in portal applications enabling companies to unify their e-business infrastructure and conduct interactions and transactions. Its products are used for integrating business processes with self-service operations, managing the sales process, connecting customers to personalized online views of content; and managing content from creation through distribution. Founded in 1993, it has revenue of $60 million and employs about 181 people. It is based in Redwood City, CA. It has agreed to be acquired by Vector Capital.
Chairman, President, CEO & CFOPehong Chen
Number of Employees 219
Contact Information
585 Broadway
Redwood City, California 94063-3122
1 650 542 3777
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Software Publishers: 511210
Recent Events
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BroadVision Launches Clearvale at SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition, Announces 2009 CESNA Awards
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BroadVision Announces First Quarter 2009 Results
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BroadVision Sets Date to Announce First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Results
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BroadVision Introduces eMerchandising Uplift -- Compelling Cloud 2.0 Solution Optimized to Boost Onl
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BroadVision Announces Fourth Quarter 2008 and Full-Year Results
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BroadVision, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions The first question comes from Joe [Romelli] – Unknown Firm. Joe [Romelli] – Unknown Firm I had a thought you guys had actually gone through the perfect storm before and I know you alluded to a lot of this and you came...
Thomas Cook India Launches Integrated Travel Portal on BroadVision Business Agility Suite 8.1
Agile Development Environment Allows Three Sites to Develop and Go Live in Parallel - Lowers Costs and Shortens Timeline
BroadVision to Highlight Commerce Agility Suite and eMerchandising Solutions at Events in France and U.S
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- BroadVision, Inc., (OTCBB:BVSN), a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, today announces that it will participate in the following events to showcase the agile e-commerce solution, Commerce Agility Suite CAS and application for online B2B and B2C merchants - eMerchandising.
Phil@Poste Puts Stamp of Approval on BroadVision's Commerce Agility Suite 8.1 and e-Merchandising 8.1 to Boost E-Commerce Activities
Superior Flexibility, Scalability and Customizable Components for an Evolving E-Business
BroadVision Releases 8.1 Version of eMerchandising - Creates Dynamic, Personalized, Value-Based Selling for B2B and B2C Commerce Customers
Added to Commerce Agility Suite, the Solutions Help Customers Get to Market Faster; Maintain Margins While Offering Sophisticated Selling Incentives
BroadVision Showcases Commerce Agility Suite at SAPPHIRE '08 and NETCOMM Forum 2008 Conferences in May
VP Andrea Rubei to Deliver Keynote: "eCommerce: Take the Money and Run!" at NETCOMM Forum
BroadVision Announces Profitable First Quarter 2008 Results
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- BroadVision, Inc. (OTCBB: BVSN), a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, today reported financial results for its first quarter ending March 31, 2008. Revenues for the first quarter were $10.0 million, compared with revenues of $11.2 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2007 and...
Award-Winning Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Site Posts Record Ticket Sales Using BroadVision's Proven Platform
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- BroadVision, Inc., (OTCBB:BVSN), a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, today announced that Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited IRCTC, a subsidiary of Indian Railways, recently recorded record-breaking ticketing transactions. IRCTC has relied on BroadVision's leading platform technology to power its mission-critical and revenue-generating website...
BroadVision Announces Q1'08 Earnings Release Date
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- BroadVision, Inc., (OTCBB:BVSN), a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, today announces that it will release its first quarter 2008 financial results on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at approximately 1:30 PM Pacific Time PT. Following the financial results, the company will hold an Investor/Analyst conference call...
BroadVision CEO Dr. Pehong Chen Joins UFIDA's Board of Directors
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & BEIJING -- UFIDA (SSE: 600588), China's largest software company, today announced that Dr. Pehong Chen, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision, Inc. (OTCBB:BVSN) was elected to UFIDA's board of directors at the shareholders meeting held on March 25, 2008 in Beijing. Dr. Chen also...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Shin-Yuan Tzou | CTO |
| Alex Kormushoff | Senior Vice President, GlobalOpers |
| David Boyer | Senior Vice President Engineering and Technical Support |
| Keith Goldstein | Senior Vice President, Business Development |
| Warren Utt | Senior Vice President, Operations |
| Charlie Hsu | Vice President, Engineering & Support |
| Dr Albert Chen | Vice President of Technology |
| Lisa Rosner | Vice President, Worldwide Marketing |
| Jon West | Marketing Director, Solutions |
| Daryl Hackbarth | Manager, Marketing |
| George Conti | Product Line Manager |
| James D. Dixon | Director |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Pehong Chen | Chairman, President, CEO & CFO |
| Carl Pascarella | Board of Directors |
| David L. Anderson | Board of Directors |
| Greg Smitherman | Board Member |
| Koh Boon Hwee | Board of Directors |
| Michael Nevens | Board of Directors |
| Robert P Lee | Board of Directors |
| Roderick C. McGeary | Board of Directors |
| T. Michael Nevens | Board of Directors |
Dr. Pehong Chen is a renowned expert and leader in the field of new media and enterprise business portal technologies. Prior to founding BroadVision in 1993, he was vice president of multimedia technology at Sybase, responsible for the company's interactive initiatives. Earlier, he founded and was president of Gain Technology, a leading supplier of multimedia software tools, where he pioneered multimedia as an enabling technology for a new generation of business applications. Gain was acquired by Sybase in 1992. Having personally started and run two successful software startups, Dr. Chen uses his experience and resources to help others do the same. In 1993, he provided startup capital for Siebel Systems, now a worldwide leader in front office automation software, and served on its board of directors until 1996.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Chairman, President, CEO & CFO | Current |
| Evincii, Incorporated | President | Current |
| Evincii, Incorporated | Board of Directors | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Founder | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | PhD In Computer Science | Former |
Shin-Yuan Tzou joined the company in 1995, won BroadVision's "Most Valuable Player" award in 1997 and has contributed to the design and development of every version of BroadVision's self-service suite. From 1994-1995, he built supercomputers at Silicon Graphics, focusing on scalable I/O, high speed networking and UNIX kernel. From 1990-1994, he built mainframe storage systems at IBM, focusing on multiprocessors, fault tolerance and recovery, file systems, and distributed systems. In 1990, he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. Before returning to school, he built applications for managing health physics information across multiple nuclear power plants, banking system support for electronic fund transfer and localization at Wang Computers. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | CTO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Senior Vice President, GlobalOpers | Current |
| SPSS Inc. | Senior Vice President, Field Operations, Worldwide | Current |
| Boston University | M.B.A | Former |
| The Pennsylvania State University | B.A. In Business | Former |
David Boyer has over 15 years of experience in the high-tech sector. He joined BroadVision in 2000, and has grown to his current role of SVP Engineering and Technical Support. Prior to joining BroadVision, Boyer was a Director of Research and Development at Informix, managing a worldwide team of database server product development engineers for the Informix Dynamic Server and Universal Server products. Prior to that, he co-founded SIMData Technologies Corporation, a developer of high performance analog-level circuit simulation software. Boyer also held a management position at Data Parallel Systems, where he oversaw the initial development, deployment and support of a V1.0 release of a massively parallel relational database and data mining software. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Chemistry from Allegheny College.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Senior Vice President Engineering and Technical Support | Current |
| Indiana University | Master of Science degree in Computer Science | Former |
| Allegheny College | Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Chemistry | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Business Development | Current |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | Former | |
| Salesforce.com, Inc. | Former | |
| TIBCO Software Inc. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Operations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Vice President, Engineering & Support | Current |
| ITM Software | member | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | member | Former |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | Former | |
| National Taiwan University | BS in Electrical Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Vice President of Technology | Current |
| International Business Machines Corporation | Former | |
| Tandem Inc. | Former | |
| University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. in Computer Science | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Vice President, Worldwide Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Marketing Director, Solutions | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Marketing Director, Solutions | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Manager, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Product Line Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vspring | CFO | Current |
| Dionex Corporation | Managing Director of Sutter Hill Ventures, Director | Current |
| Sutter Hill Ventures | managing director | Current |
| Famous Dave's of America, Inc. | Founder | Current |
| Famous Dave's Barbeque Ribs and Sauces | Founder & Head Cook | Current |
| Famous Dave's Lifeskills for Success | Member of the Chippewa and Choctaw Tribes | Current |
| Content House | Current | |
| Prosperous America | Board of Directors | Current |
| Famous Dave's Lifeskills for Success | Board of Directors | Current |
| Brierley & Partners | Board of Directors | Current |
| Famous Dave's Barbeque Ribs and Sauces | Board of Directors | Current |
| Dionex Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Molecular Devices Corporation | Board member | Current |
| Famous Dave's of America, Inc. | Member of the Chippewa and Choctaw Tribes | Current |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | President | Former |
| Grand Casinos Inc. | Executive Vice President | Former |
| Grand Casinos Inc. | Co-Founder | Former |
| Vspring | limited partner reporting | Former |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Assistant Secretary | Former |
| Famous Dave's Barbeque Ribs and Sauces | Member of the Chippewa and Choctaw Tribes | Former |
| Vspring | financial management | Former |
| LSI Corporation | start, up funding | Former |
| WJ Communications Incorporated | Solid State Division | Former |
| Linear Technology Corp. | start, up funding | Former |
| Entrepreneurs Foundation | founding member | Former |
| Quantum Corporation | start, up funding | Former |
| Mentor Graphics Corporation | start, up funding | Former |
| San Francisco Ballet | Trustee | Former |
| Famous Dave's of America, Inc. | Chairman | Former |
| E-Rewards, Inc. | Board member | Former |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | Director | Former |
| Harvard Business School Alumni Association | Director | Former |
| Hybritech | Board member | Former |
| Sutter Hill Ventures | Director | Former |
| Harvard University | Master's Degree | Former |
| Harvard Business School | MBA | Former |
| Utah State University | BS in Accounting | Former |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | B.S. in electrical engineering | Former |
| Harvard University | Degrees | Former |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | graduated in electrical engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Global Conference Partners | CEO | Current |
| American Capital Strategies, Ltd. | Managing Director | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Topspin Communications, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Advanced Radio Telecom | Board Member | Current |
| Xiotech Corporation | Board Member | Current |
| Narus, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Combinet | Board Member | Current |
| American Capital Strategies, Ltd. | Principal, Technology Group | Former |
| Advent International Corporation | Board of Directors | Former |
| University of Chicago | MBA | Former |
| University of Michigan | Bse, Aerospace Engineering | Former |
| University of Chicago | BS In Aerospace Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 724 Solutions Inc. | President | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Rare Hospitality International, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Upstream Technologies LLC | Director | Current |
| 724 Solutions Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| C & S/Sovran Corporation | Chief Financial Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Exeros, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Memec, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Managing Partner | Former |
| Borland Software Corporation | Former | |
| University of Notre Dame | B.S. in Physics | Former |
Dr. Robert P. Lee, a 30-year veteran of the computer industry, is chairman and CEO of Achievo Corporation. Dr. Lee co-founded the company in 2002 while he served as president and CEO of Accela, Inc., one of the leading government automation software companies in the U.S. He relinquished his roles with Accela in 2007, but continues as a board director. Dr. Lee was president and CEO of Inxight Software, Inc. before joining Achievo. Prior to Inxight Software, he was chairman, president and CEO of Insignia Solutions plc, a software company he took public in 1995. Dr. Lee also served as executive vice president at Symantec Corporation where he led the acquisition and integration of many companies, including Norton Computing. He was senior vice president at Shared Medical Systems Corporation (now merged with Siemens), and earlier in his career held various technical and business management positions at IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation. Dr. Lee is a member of the board of directors and advisor to several companies. In addition to being a director for Achievo and Accela, he is a director for Osel, Inc., a bio-pharmaceutical company. Dr. Lee was formerly chairman and president of Silicon Valley's Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA) for multiple terms. Dr. Lee received a bachelora s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and masters and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, all in computer science.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Achievo Corporation | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | Current |
| Accela Incorporated | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Retirement Capital Group, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
| Mre Commercial Real Estate | Executive Director | Current |
| Mre Commercial Real Estate | Partner | Current |
| Asian Pacific Fund | Board of Directors | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| California Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Netopia, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Corinthian Colleges, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Accela Incorporated | Board Member | Current |
| Osel Inc | Director | Current |
| Accela Incorporated | President | Former |
| Business Communications Corporation | Corporate Executive Vice President | Former |
| Shared Medical Systems | Senior Vice President | Former |
| Clark Consulting | Former | |
| The RCG | Former | |
| Youth Tennis Advantage | Chairman of the Board | Former |
| Achievo Corporation | Director | Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Doctorate Degrees | Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Masters | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | M.B.A. | Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Bachelors of Arts Degree In Economics | Former |
| University of California, Berkeley | Bachelor's Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Brience, Inc. | chairman | Current |
| BearingPoint, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Purisma, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Dionex Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| BearingPoint, Inc. | CEO | Former |
| Brience, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| BearingPoint, Inc. | co-president | Former |
| Brience, Inc. | Co-Founder | Former |
| KPMG International | consulting partner | Former |
| Dionex Corporation | Board of Directors | Former |
| Kmpg,Inc. | Former | |
| Evident Software, Inc. | Director | Former |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| USA 2017 | Board of Directors | Current |
| BroadVision, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Borland Software Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Managing Partner | Former |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Director | Former |
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