Technology Veteran to Drive Continued Growth for BI Platform
Endeca Technologies, Inc.,a search and business intelligence (BI) company, today announced the appointment of Bob Zurek as vice president, Endeca Latitude Product Strategy. With more than 25 years of proven success in software development, technology research, and product management, Zurek brings to Endeca a deep expertise in database management systems and BI technologies. He will help drive continued growth of the company's BI product, Endeca Latitude®.
"Every day millions of users interact with Endeca's BI solutions making them one of the most widely used BI solutions after Excel," said Zurek. "I am eager to apply my expertise to help Endeca bring its unique blend of search and BI to more enterprise organizations. Endeca Latitude is well-positioned to solve a variety of problems, both business and IT, across a host of industries and use cases."
Zurek joins Endeca from InfoBright, an open source data warehousing company, where he was chief technology officer and vice president of product management. Prior to that, he was vice president products and chief technology officer at EnterpriseDB, where he led the company's technology and product management operations for its open source product line. Zurek also held management positions at IBM, Ascential Software, and other technology companies where he consistently demonstrated the ability to define and deliver market-leading products with strong competitive differentiation.
"Bob brings to Endeca a wealth of experience and industry relationships," said Adam Ferrari, chief technology officer, Endeca. "With his exceptional strategic and operational abilities, he will be a strong asset in our continued growth and success in the BI market."
Bob is a frequent speaker at industry events and serves on the advisory board of a number of technology companies.
About Endeca
Endeca is a search and business intelligence software company that improves daily decisions for employees and purchase decisions for customers. Endeca's unique innovation, the hybrid search-analytical database, enables IT organizations to deliver solutions with consumer ease-of-use on diverse and changing information. Endeca solutions drive hundreds of millions of dollars in reduced costs and increased revenues in the world's most demanding decision-making environments in organizations like Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the United States Department of Justice, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com, facets.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
Endeca and Endeca Latitude are trademarks or registered trademarks of Endeca Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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