ATG Named to Globe 100's Top Places to Work '08

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Global e-Commerce Specialist Recognized by The Boston Globe; Placement Earned as a Result of Direct Employee Feedback

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - November 12, 2008- ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.,NASDAQ: ARTG), the premier provider ofe-commercesoftware and platform-neutraloptimization services, today announced it has been named one of the Top Places to Work inMassachusetts in the debut of an employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. ATG wasranked # 88 on the overall list and was included in a special top ten list of companiesrecognized for their level of achievement in work/life flexibility. Produced by the same teamthat compiles the 21-year-old Globe 100 report of the best-performing public companies inMassachusetts, the Top Places to Work recognizes the most progressive companies in the statebased on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation and training,diversity/inclusion, career development, work/life flexibility, and values and ethics. TheGlobe 100's Top Places to Work magazine was published in the Sunday Globe on November 9.Online, the report can be found at boston.com/topworkplaces.

"ATG considers it a top priority to provide our employees with the same caliber ofrespect, appreciation and benefits that we offer the incredible portfolio of brands we workwith," said Bob Burke, ATG's president and CEO. "We are consistently able to delivercutting-edge technology and help our customers successfully drive theire-commerceoperations due in large part to the smart and dedicated people that comprise our company. Iknow I speak for the entire ATG executive team when I say how proud we are to have beenincluded in the Globe 100's Top Places to Work."

ATG is one of the region's largest software developers and one of the region's largesttechnology employers. The company has more than 435 employees worldwide, 200 of them based inMassachusetts. Over the past several years, Cambridge-based ATG has continued to grow in size,revenue and clients, providinge-commercetechnology and services to more than 900brands ranging from retailers including American Eagle Outfitters, Casual Male, Louis Vuitton,Neiman Marcus and The Finish Line, to media and entertainment companies such as A&ENetwork, AOL, DirecTV, Games Workshop, Reuters and Viacom, and telecommunications entities suchas AT&T, France Telecom, Sprint, Verizon, Vodafone, as well as a host of others across avariety of industries (including Continental Airlines, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Jenny Craig andRed Lion Hotels).

"All the companies included in the Globe 100's Top Places to Work deserve a great dealof recognition, stated Steve Ainsley, publisher of The Boston Globe. "It's clear that theyvalue their employees and make it a priority to create a positive workplace."

The rankings in the Globe 100's Top Places to Work are based on survey information collectedby Workplace Dynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement andretention, from 120,000 employees at about 600 Massachusetts organizations. Private companiesand nonprofits as well as publicly-held businesses were included in the analysis.

This marks the first time that a Globe 100 report honors private as well as publicly-heldorganizations.

To qualify for the Globe 100's Top Places to Work, a company must have more than 100employees in Massachusetts. Nearly 600 qualified companies accepted an invitation toparticipate. Rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employeeresponses.

About ATG

A trusted, global specialist ine-commerce, ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.,NASDAQ: ARTG) has spent the last decade focused on helping the world's premier brands maximizethe success of their online businesses. The ATG Commerce application suite is the top-ratedplatform by industry analysts for powering highly personalized, efficient and effectivee-commercesites. The company's platform-neutrale-commerceoptimization services can be easily added to any Web site to increase conversions and reduceabandonment. These services include ATG Recommendations and eStara Connections. The company isheadquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North Americaand Europe. For more information, please visithttp://www.atg.com.

2008 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. Risk factors related to thesubject matter of this press release include the possibility that the ATG product deploymentwill not be successful, on time or significantly enhance the user's Internet experience or willnot increase customer revenue across brands; that those customers leveraging ATG will not havethe opportunity to increase revenue and decrease future costs; the need to adapt to rapidchanges so products do not become obsolete; the possibility of errors in ATG's softwareproducts; the possibility that the solution will not make customer implementations faster ormore flexible or permit the customer to meet its customer-facing or infrastructurerequirements; that the ATG product will not continue to be integrated with third partyapplications servers or will not support all Web services enabled systems; that ATG's productstrategy 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 ofthis press release.

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