CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG), the leading e-commerce platform and optimization services provider, today announced that numerous retail brands whose Web sites are powered by ATG’s e-commerce personalization platform have experienced impressive gains in online revenue for 2007 and in early 2008. By making it easier for customers to find desired products, learn about relevant new ones and complete their purchases, the following sites leveraging ATG Commerce have recently reported increased Web sales:

American Eagle Outfitters (www.ae.com) – AEO reported e-commerce sales of $240 million for 2007, up by $55.4 million, or 30 percent, from about $184.6 million in 2006. e-Commerce sales grew at more than triple the rate of overall sales for the company in 2007 and accounted for 21 percent of 2007 sales growth.

Neiman Marcus (www.NeimanMarcus.com, www.BergdorfGoodman.com, www.Horchow.com) – e-Commerce accounted for approximately 75 percent of revenue in Neiman Marcus’ direct marketing segment for fiscal 2008. Online sales totaled to $304.7 million for the first half of fiscal 2008, an increase of 19 percent compared with $256.9 million in the same period in 2007.
New York & Company (www.NYandCompany.com) – For its first year as a Web merchant, New York & Co. reported 2007 e-commerce sales of approximately $22 million. The retailer stated it anticipates Web sales to grow at an annual rate of at least 30 percent. And recently revealed plans to add products and functionality to the site throughout 2008 to enhance the customer experience.

PetMed Express (www.1800petmeds.com) – Web sales for the third quarter of PetMed’s fiscal 2008 were reported at $24.4 million, an increase of more than 23 percent from e-commerce revenue of $19.8 million in the prior year. During the same quarter, the Web represented 65 percent of all orders.

Urban Outfitters (www.urbanoutfitters.com, www.Anthropologie.com) – Urban’s direct-to-consumer business (which includes Web and catalog) reported increased sales for fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 by 39 percent to $72.9 million. The company described a penetration of direct sales to total company sales that increased to 15.7 percent from 14.6 percent one year earlier, citing a paradigm shift associated with an increase in Web site visits for both research and purchases.

Further, one ATG customer reported a record 30 million visits just over the Thanksgiving weekend, and record sales over the entire holiday period with 100% uptime, not one minute of downtime. ATG customer AT&T was reported by Neilsen NetRatings to have been the fourth most heavily visited commerce site on Cyber Monday because of the iPhone store, powered by ATG.

“ATG’s retail customers continue to report impressive growth in Web sales and it’s important that we recognize these achievements,” said Cliff Conneighton, ATG’s senior vice president of marketing. “We congratulate each of these top-notch brands for demonstrating a smart approach to e-commerce, which is evidenced in the way they have successfully built online destinations that their customers return to again and again. We have always championed how important it is for companies to support their e-commerce initiatives with world-class technology, because these investments are proven to drive online sales and encourage customer loyalty. In addition to making solid technology investments, these retailers have implemented winning e-commerce strategies overall and ATG applauds them for putting customer experiences first.”

ATG Commerce, the company’s flagship product, is a comprehensive, highly scalable e-commerce platform that automates the complete lifecycle of online sales, marketing and service. Its flexible, component-based e-commerce software architecture enables merchants to personalize the online buying experience for their customers, making it easy for them to find desired products, comparison shop, register for gifts, pre-order products, redeem coupons and execute many other useful features. ATG also offers eStara e-commerce optimization services, a suite of products designed to deliver the right content to the right person at the right time, through the right channel, helping companies to increase conversions, reduce site abandonment, collapse call handling times and make the online experience more relevant for consumers.

About ATG
ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) provides the e-commerce platform and e-commerce optimization services that the world's most customer-conscious companies use to power their e-commerce Web sites, attract prospects, convert them to buyers and ensure their satisfaction so they become loyal, repeat, profitable customers. Our e-commerce suite is ranked the #1 current offering and #1 in strategy by the industry's most influential analyst firms, and powers more of the top 300 internet retailers than any other vendor. Our eStara brand of e-commerce optimization services - including the world's most widely used click to call offering - dramatically increase conversions and order size and enhance customer support. ATG's solutions are used by over 900 major brands, including AT&T, Best Buy, Bulgari, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, CVS, Dell, Diane von Furstenberg, DirecTV, eLuxury, El Corte Ingles, Expedia, France Telecom, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, HSBC, Intuit, Jenny Craig, Louis Vuitton, Macy's, Mercedes Benz, Meredith, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, New York & Company, NutriSystem, OfficeMax, PayPal, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Sears, Sony, Symantec, Target, T-Mobile, Tommy Hilfiger, Urban Outfitters, Verizon, Viacom, Vodafone and Walgreens.

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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 its 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 the possibility that the ATG product deployment will not be successful, on time or significantly enhance the user's Internet experience or will not increase customer revenue across brands; that those customers leveraging ATG will not have the opportunity to increase revenue and decrease future costs; the need to adapt to rapid changes so products do not become obsolete; the possibility of errors in ATG's software products; the possibility that the solution will not make customer implementations faster or more flexible or permit the customer to meet its customer-facing or infrastructure requirements; that the ATG product will not continue to be integrated with third party applications servers or will not support all Web services enabled systems; that ATG's product strategy may change in the future; and the risks and costs of intellectual property litigation. ATG undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.