SLI Buyer Engine – The Heart of a Powerful E-commerce Suite

I have a confession. For more than a decade, SLI has been far too modest about our e-commerce innovations. Perhaps our engineering team has garnered so many patents that they haven’t stopped to reflect. It hit me when we learned of the latest SLI patent related to our auto complete algorithm. We began applying for […]

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Time for a Change! SLI Reveals Its New Brand

At SLI Systems, we’re proud of our 13-year history of providing high-quality learning-based site search, and our status as the leading SaaS-based site search provider to the Internet Retailer Top 1,000. We’re also proud of our culture of ongoing innovation, which has led us to expand our solutions to include learning-based navigation, recommendations, user-generated SEO, […]

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Get Heard, Get Prizes: Take Our Annual eCommerce Survey

Want your voice to be heard? It’s survey time again, when SLI Systems asks our network of online retailers and other eCommerce experts to weigh in on their current experiences with site search and their plans for the coming year. The annual eCommerce survey provides the industry with benchmarks on how businesses are attracting customers […]

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Are You Ready to Rock?! (With SLI!)

Just this past weekend, eight of our SLI family of us (plus friends & family) ran, climbed, jumped and crawled our way through the grueling 6K Gladiator Rock ‘N Run Challenge. Team members from our sales, customer success and marketing departments came out in force to rock the 17-obstacle course in the hills above San […]

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Moving Day – SLI’s Offices in New Zealand Tech Hub

We’re just completing the relocation of our Christchurch team into the new EPIC Centre. EPIC is a recently completed facility that will serve as a high-tech hub. This move has been eagerly anticipated, not only as a chance to join other tech companies in a cooperative space, but also to move from the cramped temporary […]

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Built-in Redundancy to Prepare for Natural Disasters

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many areas of the North American East Coast were hit with massive storms and power outages. As record-breaking storm surges and heavy rains flooded cities, millions of homes and businesses have lost power and may be without electricity for days. When natural disasters strike like this, it reinforces why […]

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SLI Systems Named in Top 100 NZ Tech Companies

SLI Systems was just ranked in the TIN100 report, which catalogs the top 100 technology companies in New Zealand. The ratings rank companies by revenue, an analysis of market sectors, a New Zealand company ownership review, in depth statistics of the current financial times and the impact on the industry. We’re honored to be part of the list […]

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Best workplace award

Great news: SLI Systems New Zealand office has been voted one of the finalists for Best Workplaces in New Zealand! The survey, which was completed by Kenexa, took into account answers from 33,000 kiwis from 289 organizations. Winners for each category will be announced in November, and we’re looking forward to learning the results. This […]

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Goodbye SLI birth place – with explosives!

On Sunday Radio Network House in Christchurch, New Zealand was demolished by implosion. Check out the video. Our first office was located on the 6th floor this building. We moved in 11 years ago with half a floor of space and eventually occupied a whole floor before we outgrew it. The building was damaged beyond […]

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Earthquake in Christchurch

At 4:30am on Saturday morning Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. This is the location of our New Zealand office. Amazingly no one in the city was killed and there were very few injuries, despite there being widespread damage. Our staff are all well and, with one exception, have escaped major […]

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