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Avangate Wins 2013 CODiE Awards
Avangate Named Best eCommerce and Billing Platform
Enterprise Edition Suite Recognized by Industry Peers for Innovation and Flexibility in SIIA CODiE Awards
Redwood Shores, CA - February 11, 2013 - Avangate, the agile Commerce provider trusted by thousands of software and Cloud services companies to grow their businesses worldwide, today announced that its Avangate Enterprise Edition Suite is the winner of the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards, Best eCommerce and Billing Platform.
Based on the award criteria, Avangate's Enterprise Edition Suite was chosen as the best eCommerce & billing platform designed for media, publishers & information providers. From the initial set of industry vendors, judges selected and evaluated 3 finalists: Avangate, Aria and Recurly for a wide-range of capabilities, including: support for revenue collection like subscription billing, platform flexibility, accessibility as well as innovation of business model and go-to-market approach.
"Successful commerce requires bringing together eCommerce services, subscription and recurring billing, and distribution. Having the speed and flexibility for vendors to quickly launch new products, test new business models, and grow globally has become critical for digital commerce," said Carl Theobald, Chief Executive Officer, Avangate. "This CODiE award, together with our rapid growth and continued high client satisfaction are a strong validation of our strategy and execution."
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, and bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.
"We commend Avangate for this win in Best eCommerce & Billing Platform for its Avangate Enterprise Edition Suite. The products selected as finalists for this year's CODiE Award stand as a testament to the dedication companies have not only to meet, but also to exceed their customer and partner expectations," noted SIIA Vice President for the Content Division, Kathy Greenler Sexton. "Avangate was recognized among an exceptional field of innovative companies."
Avangate was recently included in the Market Overview: Subscription And Recurring Billing Solutions 2012," Forrester Research Inc., as well as in The Gartner CRM Vendor Guide, 2013, under E-Commerce Platform Providers and Subscription Management categories.
To learn more about how Avangate can grow your software and SaaS sales, read an overview of the Avangate solutions.
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE™ Awards were established in 1986 by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other's work. Since then, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose - to celebrate the software and information industry's finest products and services.
For more information about the SIIA CODiE Awards, visit: http://www.siia.net/codies
About 2Checkout (formerly Avangate)
2Checkout, a Francisco Partners portfolio company, is the digital commerce & payments provider that helps companies sell their products and services via multiple channels, acquire customers across multiple touch points, increase customer and revenue retention, leverage smarter payment options and subscription billing models, and maximize sales conversion rates. The company’s clients include ABBYY, Absolute, Bitdefender, FICO, HP Software, Kaspersky Lab, and many more companies across the globe.
Avangate acquired 2Checkout in March 2017. More information about 2Checkout’s Avangate platform and related services can be found on www.avangate.com.
More information on 2Checkout can be found on www.2checkout.com
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