Thanx Media's Oracle Endeca And ULTA Beauty Take Customer Experience To The Next Level
Thanx Media’s Oracle Endeca Professional Services Helps Major Beauty Retailer Ensure Unified Customer Experience with Industry-Leading Search and Guided Navigation System
ULTA Beauty, a major beauty retailer, in partnership with Thanx Media has implemented Oracle Endeca Site Search and Experience Manager. Thanx Media is a leading provider of integrated search solutions and Endeca Professional Services for online retailers. Thanx Media works closely with retailers to leverage best practices that deliver a unified customer experience.
Oracle Endeca has replaced a third party search solution, now tightly integrating the browse and search navigation, resulting in a consistent guest experience with minimal maintenance. The previous lack of integration with the third party search solution caused discrepancies in product data (such as pricing and inventory levels between search and browse) resulting in product listing pages that didn’t always match and a process that lacked the flexibility required by the e-commerce business team.
Michelle Pacynski, VP IT, Customer Facing Systems and Jeff Hamm, Director of E-Commerce at ULTA Beauty jointly led the initiative to replace the third party search platform.
“The decision to replace the existing search was in response to a need to provide a seamless customer experience throughout the site and to put the control into the hands of the business team,” explained Pacynski.
“Elevating the e-commerce experience for our guests is a priority,” said Hamm. “Thanx Media was the best partner to help us make that experience more seamless with their expertise, record of success, and ability to meet our time to market needs.”
Oracle Endeca Site Search was phased in just prior to the 2013 holiday shopping season. Positive Q4 results and desire for more business control emphasized the need for a spring-time implementation of Experience Manager. The Thanx Media expertise was leveraged to accelerate the learning curve, impart best practices, and deliver both projects on-time.
“The entire project has been fantastic,” says Paul Matker, Thanx Media CEO. “It’s been a great example of how teamwork and putting together the right set of resources can accelerate an implementation, all while producing results that strongly impact both sales and customer experience.”
About Thanx Media
Thanx Media is an enterprise technology company delivering scalable and flexible software solutions that transform site search and merchandising into a Customer Experience Management platform. Since 2005 Thanx Media has been a VAR (value-added-reseller) for Oracle’s Endeca site search platform. The Thanx Media team has over 75 years of combined Endeca experience. Thanx Media is Oracle Endeca’s Nationwide No. 1 Reseller and exclusive SaaS reseller. For more information, visit www.thanxmedia.com.
About ULTA Beauty
ULTA Beauty is the largest beauty retailer that provides one-stop shopping for prestige, mass and salon products and salon services in the United States. ULTA Beauty provides affordable indulgence to its customers by combining unmatched product breadth, value and convenience with the distinctive environment and experience of a specialty retailer. ULTA Beauty offers a unique combination of over 20,000 prestige and mass beauty products across the categories of cosmetics, fragrance, haircare, skincare, bath and body products and salon styling tools. ULTA Beauty also offers a full-service salon and a wide range of salon haircare products in all of its stores. As of May 3, 2014 the Company operates 696 retail stores across 46 states and also distributes its products through the Company’s website: www.ULTA.com.
Source: ULTA Beauty