Business Catalyst is a hosted all-in-one solution for building and managing business websites. The company was founded in 2004 by two Australian entrepreneurs, Bardia Housman and Adam Broadway. It was acquired by Adobe Systems in August 2009. The company coined the term "Online Businesses" to represent a new approach to building and running websites.

Business Catalyst is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.  An online business differs from an ordinary website in that it has greater awareness of its visitors and customers. At its core, it has a built-in customer relationship management framework and is complimented with rich sales, service and marketing features such as ecommerce and Email Marketing tools. Business Catalyst is a platform built for Online Businesses - with business goals and business tools and business well, everything. It's also a platform designed to help you, as a web professional, to build Online Businesses. So you can see - we're pretty serious about this Online Business thing. That's why it's our mission to help you build Online Businesses, not Websites. Business Catalyst offer many packages for building an online business.