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Broadvision

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American technology company

BroadVision, Inc. is an international software vendor of self-service web applications for enterprise social software, electronic commerce, enterprise portals, and customer relationship management. The company provides applications to businesses. In addition, the company provides toolkit, framework, library for extending its products and services.3 Its shares trade on NASDAQ under the symbol BVSN.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1993Founded1

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  • TickerBVSN on NASDAQ1
  • IndustryServices-Prepackaged Software1
  • HeadquartersRedwood City1
  • Websitewww.broadvision.com
  • Incorporated inDE6
  • Business address460 Seaport Ct., Suite 102, Redwood City, Ca 940636
  • Filer categoryNon-accelerated filer, Smaller reporting company6
  • Legal formCorporation4
  • LEI529900HT3SKBHXV206654
  • StatusActive4
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)4
  • Registered addressc/o The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc., 251 Little Falls Drive, 19808 Wilmington, United States4
  • Registered withDivision of Corporations, Department of State, 23361674

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BroadVision, Inc. is an international software vendor of self-service web applications for enterprise social software, electronic commerce, enterprise portals, and customer relationship management. The company provides applications to businesses. In addition, the company provides toolkit, framework, library for extending its products and services. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. It was founded on May 13, 1993, by Pehong Chen, and its initial public offering took place in 1996.3

What it owns

What Broadvision reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Furniture and fixtures$169.0K8 Dec 31, 2017$159.0K8 Dec 31, 2016+6.3%
Leasehold improvements$179.0K8 Dec 31, 2017$179.0K8 Dec 31, 20160%
Property and equipment, before depreciation$2.1M9 Dec 31, 2018$2.5M9 Dec 31, 2017−17.3%
Accumulated depreciation$2.1M9 Dec 31, 2018$2.5M9 Dec 31, 2017−16.8%
Property and equipment, net$15.0K9 Dec 31, 2018$35.0K9 Dec 31, 2017−57.1%

Investments

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Cash and cash equivalents$2.6M9 Dec 31, 2018$8.6M9 Dec 31, 2017−69.9%
Marketable securities, current$09 Dec 31, 2018$1.0M9 Dec 31, 2017−100.0%

The story

BroadVision, Inc. was set up in 1993. In 1995 its ecommerce services were introduced to the market and the company became public on Nasdaq in the next year. In 2000, it acquired Interleaf and introduced QuickSilver in the same year. During the next ten years, the company extended its market step by step, introducing Clear, Clearvale (cloud-based services), Clearvale Second Floor Speaker Series, Clearvale PaasPort, and Clearvale Express.

From Wikipedia’s article on Broadvision, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Leadership

Who has led Broadvision, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Pehong Chen2006–2020

President

  1. Pehong Chen2006

Chief financial officer

  1. William Meyer2006
  2. Shin-Yuan Tzou2008–2013
  3. Peter Chu2014–2015
  4. Pehong Chen2020
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Board members and other officers (5)

Products and brands

Applications of the company include business agility suite, ecommerce agility suite for online shopping, Clearvale, Clear (a human resources (HR) management system), QuickSilver (a document publishing system), Kona framework, and eMerchandising (processing sales data) Clearvale is BroadVision's enterprise social networking platform available under a software as a service model.

From Wikipedia’s article on Broadvision, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Timeline

  1. Mar 10, 2006New chief executive Pehong Chen becomes CEO10
  2. 1993Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How Broadvision is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARBROADVISION INC2
  • CIK0000920448
  • Employer ID (EIN)94-31843032
  • Filer statusNon-accelerated filer<br>smaller reporting company2
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Industry code (SIC)7372 Services-Prepackaged Software2
  • Business address460 Seaport Ct., Suite 102, Redwood City, CA 940632
  • Phone65033110002
  • Shares outstanding5,061,018 as of Oct 25, 201919
  • Public float$6.5M as of Jun 30, 20189
  • On EDGAR sinceMay 9, 19962
  • Filings583 in all: 8-K (138), 4 (119), 10-Q (71), DEFA14A (26), DEF 14A (23), 10-K (21), SC 13G/A (21), S-8 (18)2
    All 50 form types

    SC 13G (10), UPLOAD (9), 10-K/A (8), 3 (8), CORRESP (8), S-1/A (8), SC TO-I/A (7), 4/A (6), ARS (6), PRE 14A (6), SC 13D (6), 10-Q/A (5), NT 10-Q (5), SC 13D/A (5), 424B4 (4), POS AM (4), S-3 (4), S-3/A (4), EFFECT (3), 10-K405 (2), 8-K/A (2), NT 10-K (2), NTN 10Q (2), RW (2), S-1 (2), SC TO-C (2), 25-NSE (1), 3/A (1), 424B3 (1), 425 (1), 8-A12B (1), CERTNAS (1), DEF 14C (1), DEFM14A (1), DEFR14A (1), DEFS14A (1), PRE 14C (1), PREM14A (1), S-4 (1), S-4/A (1), S-4MEF (1), SC TO-I (1)

  • Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Apr 1, 2019
    Quarterly report (10-Q) Nov 19, 2019
    Proxy statement (DEF 14A) Nov 7, 2019
    Latest 8-K (8-K) May 18, 2020

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