ATG Names Judging Panel to Select Winning e-Commerce Visionary

Thought leaders from industry analyst, venture capital, and media communities join forces

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG), whose e-commerce suite powers more top online sellers than any other, today announced a panel of industry luminaries and experts has been selected to judge entries for the first ATG e-Commerce Ingenuity Business Plan Competition.

Panelists were invited to participate based on their expertise in emerging technologies, e-commerce innovation, and entrepreneurship. Confirmed judges include:

Gene Alvarez, vice president, Gartner Research - Alvarez is an analyst whose research focuses on e-commerce, Web retail, and customer relationship management (CRM) practices
Mark Hall, editor-at-large and columnist, Computerworld magazine - Hall is an esteemed technology journalist with one of the foremost technology publications; his "On the Mark" column looks at new products, technologies, and issues affecting information technology managers
Dave Power, partner, Fidelity Ventures - Power is an investment professional focusing on emerging technology companies in the go-to-market stage of development
Drew Reynolds, senior vice president of corporate development, ATG - Reynolds is responsible for partner development and strategic relationships at ATG, including mergers and acquisitions
Austin Westerling, partner, Charles River Ventures - Westerling is a specialist focusing on making investments in consumer and enterprise software and services

"We are pleased to see momentum building for the competition, as industry leaders share their enthusiasm for what promises to be an exciting event," said Drew Reynolds, senior vice president of corporate development, ATG. "Each of my fellow judges has an impressive reputation noted for identifying and predicting best practices and tools that have impacted and will continue to shape the future of our industry. We are eager to start reviewing submissions and look forward to sharing some of the results in the coming months."

Three competition finalists will be chosen to present their full business plans to the panel of judges in addition to an audience of e-commerce leaders, Web merchants, and ATG partners at ATG's annual user conference, ATG Insight Live 2008, to be held in Boston, April 27-30, 2008. Winners will be announced and awarded the prizes during the event and will receive feedback from the panel on their entries.

The winner, as determined by the judging panel named in this announcement, will receive a prize of $50,000 in cash. A "People's Choice" winner will also receive $10,000 in cash as a result of a public vote on the company's blog, "e-Commerce Insights," http://www.ecommerceinsights.com. Submissions must include e-commerce as a business-critical component of the success of the plan and will be judged on the inventiveness and creativity of their proposals, as well as on long-term business viability and likelihood of execution. All entries must be received by 5:00 pm ET on Wednesday, January 30, 2008.

The ATG e-Commerce Ingenuity Business Plan Competition is open to individuals or teams of e-commerce entrepreneurs, as well as seed or early-stage companies. Employees of ATG or its affiliates, volunteers, and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible.

Examples of encouraged submission concepts include:

New technology offerings to attract and retain specific customer segments
New solutions for creating loyal communities of e-commerce consumers
Visionary user-interface developments or approaches to personalized e-commerce experiences
Vehicles to deliver cutting-edge e-commerce experiences to new industries

For more information or to enter the competition, each individual or team must submit a completed "Competition Submission" form at www.atg.com/ingenuity/.

About ATG

ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) makes the software and delivers the on demand solutions 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 provides customer interaction solutions to enhance conversions and customer support, and delivers the world's most widely used click-to-call service. ATG's solutions are used by over 900 major brands, including Amazon, American Eagle Outfitters, AOL, AT&T, Best Buy, B&Q, Cabela's, Carrefour, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, CVS, Dell, DirecTV, El Corte Ingles, Expedia, France Telecom, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, HSBC, Intuit, Jenny Craig, Macy's, Meredith, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, New York & Company, Nokia, NutriSystem, OfficeMax, PayPal, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Sears, Sony, Symantec, Target, T-Mobile, Tommy Hilfiger, Urban Outfitters, Verizon, Viacom, Vodafone and Walgreens. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North America and Europe. For more information about ATG, please visit www.atg.com.

� 2007 Art Technology Group, Inc. ATG and Art Technology Group are registered trademarks, and ATG Wisdom is a trademark of Art Technology Group, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

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.

Tucker Walsh
ATG
+1.617.386.1159
twalsh@atg.com