Splunk : Constant Contact Standardizes on Splunk Software

SAN FRANCISCO - March 18, 2015 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that Constant Contact®, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCT), which offers the only all-in-one online marketing platform for small businesses, has standardized on Splunk® software, further expanding its use of Splunk® Enterprise. Since 2011, Constant Contact has used Splunk software for IT operations, application development and application management. Constant Contact now also uses Splunk Enterprise for security intelligence and customer email analytics. Constant Contact's IT operations, engineering and security teams use Splunk software to further their efforts to enable a secure, always available customer experience for the company's more than 600,000 small business customers.

'Splunk Enterprise has provided real value to Constant Contact, helping us manage key functions of our rapidly growing business,' said Aaron Bruneau, director of networks, data centers, and email operations, Constant Contact. 'Splunk Enterprise provides the information we need to make smart IT and business decisions and helps secure our online marketing platform to ensure our customers never have to worry about their data.'

Splunk software increases visibility into all applications and shortens the mean time to resolution (MTTR) of network issues. With Splunk software in place, operations and engineering teams at Constant Contact report that resolving issues takes just minutes or even seconds. Splunk software is also used to analyze Constant Contact's network, firewall and customer email applications for security.

'Constant Contact is a strong example of why more and more leading organizations are recognizing the enormous value of standardizing on Splunk software as a platform,' said Steve Sommer, chief marketing officer, Splunk. 'Organizations often start with a few use cases and quickly discover many more across their businesses. Our customers tell us their return on investment from Splunk Enterprise increases greatly as they add data, use cases and users across multiple departments.'