ATG and SPEED FC Form Alliance to Deliver Fully Integrated e-Commerce and Fulfillment Solution

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Industry Leaders Partner to Deliver Seamless, End-to-End Commerce Experience

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - May 4, 2010- ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ:ARTG), the premier provider ofcross channelcommerce solutions, and SPEED FC, a leading provider of single source, end-to-ende-commerceservices, today announced an alliance to provide online sellers with acompelling new direct-to-customer solution. The two companies will fully integrate ATG'sbest-in-classe-commerceapplications with SPEED FC's market-leading fulfillment,customer care, order management, and internet marketing solutions. The result is a completelyoutsourced offering designed to provide a flexible, best-in-classe-commerceandfulfillment option with lower capital expenditures for merchants.

The solution is ideal for companies that sell online and require an integrated, outsourcede-commerce, order management, fulfillment and customer care solution. The ATG andSPEED FC alliance has been formed to address the challenges organizations encounter indeveloping an effective direct-to-customer channel. Until now, solution options have beenlimited to either purchasing and integrating disparatee-commerce, fulfillment andcustomer care technologies and services, or outsourcing to a solution provider with basicshopping cart capabilities and minimal control of branding and merchandising. The ATG and SPEEDFC alliance presents an alternative that overcomes these obstacles by offering a fullyintegrated, cost-effective solution that includes best-of-breed SaaS (software-as a-service)e-commerce, plus best-of-breede-commerceservices.

"With today's unique and highly sophisticated technology, and the operational challenges ofcross channel commerce, many online merchants are looking for an integrated end-to-end solutionthat handles front to back end system functions, while still incorporating unique and advancedcommerce technology," said Bill Zujewski, vice president of product marketing, ATG. "However,the search for a comprehensive solution often results in inflexible service options or inferiorfunctionality that doesn't allow for brand and merchandising control. With this new alliance,companies can economically obtain a best-in-class solution, customized to their unique brandand service requirements. It is a solution that enables organizations to not only leverageadvanced personalization, merchandising, search and marketing features to drive sales andincrease loyalty, but also guarantees the efficient, timely delivery of goods to theircustomers."

"Our alliance represents a unique offering to the industry; companies seeking acomprehensive, fully outsourced e-channel partner will now be able to turn to just one sourceto receive the industry's most flexible and highly regardede-commerce,interactive marketing, fulfillment, customer care and order management solutions," said JeffZisk, president, SPEED FC. "Organizations adopting this end-to-end solution will now have theability to offer an unmatched, seamless customer experience."

About ATG

A trusted, global specialist in e-commerce,ATG(Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) has spent the lastdecade focused on helping the world's premier brands maximize the success of their onlinebusinesses. ATG Commerce is thecommerceplatformand business user application solution top-rated by industry analysts for poweringhighly personalized, efficient and effective e-commerce sites. ATG's platform-neutraloptimization services can be easily added to any Web site to increase conversions and reduceabandonment. These services include ATG

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, and Instant Servicelivechat. ATG is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locationsthroughout North America and Europe. For more information, please visithttp://www.atg.com.

About SPEED FC

SpeedFC, Inc. is a privately-owned, leading provider of end-to-ende-commerceservices headquartered in Dallas, Texas. SPEED provides a suite of services, including,e-commerceplatform integration, tier 1 web hosting, proprietary order managementand reporting, high performance fulfillment and customer care, and interactive online marketingto online retailers and manufacturers. SPEED tailors solutions to meet the specific needs of arange of clients, including large apparel, home accessory, gift and luggage retailers, to namea few. For more information please visithttp://www.speedfc.com/.

2010 Art Technology Group, Inc. ATG and Art Technology Group are registered trademarks. Allother product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of theirrespective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harborprovisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involveknown and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause ATG's actual results, levels ofactivity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results,levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-lookingstatements. Important risk factors affecting ATG's business generally may be found in itsperiodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commissionatwww.sec.gov.

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