About Us

Founded in 1990, Journey Education Marketing, Inc. ("JourneyEd") based in Dallas, Texas, is the leading multi-channel software marketer to the K-12 and post-secondary academic markets, which include students, faculty, staff, educational institutions and public school districts. Our Academic eStore Network ("AEN") which includes more than 15,000 online eStores, offers thousands of market-leading software and technology products, including those published by Microsoft and Adobe, at discounts of up to 85 percent off retail prices to verified academic buyers.

Our Mission

Making software and related technology products affordable for students, educators and schools.
Students with access to the best academic tools in their field have a proven advantage when it comes time to further their education or pursue a career. For JourneyEd, helping students achieve that professional edge, at an affordable price, is our mission. JourneyEd offers qualified students, educators and other members of the educational community software and related technology items at significantly discounted prices. We also are committed to helping colleges and schools obtain the technology items they need at an affordable cost while at the same time providing the very best service levels.

Our Profile

Journey Education Marketing ("JourneyEd") based in Dallas, Texas, is the leading multi-channel software marketer to the K-12 and post-secondary academic markets, which include students, faculty, staff, educational institutions and public school districts. These markets are unique in that the academic versions of software/hardware are sold at a deep discount, even though they are typically identical to the full price commercial versions. In order to protect their margins, it is imperative that software/hardware vendors ensure that these deeply discounted products are sold only to qualified students, faculty/staff and educational institutions. JourneyEd is a leader in the business of verifying academic buyers and a preferred software/hardware marketer for the largest software/hardware companies, including Adobe, Autodesk, Avid, Corel, and Microsoft.

As late as 1990, software/hardware companies marketed discounted software/hardware only to four-year colleges and universities. By targeting such a limited group, software/hardware companies ignored the other academic market segments: individual students, faculty/staff and other institutions, namely two-year community colleges, vocational and technical career colleges/school. JourneyEd was founded to help software/hardware companies penetrate and sell to these markets. In the process, JourneyEd became the leading seller in the academic market for most of the leading software companies.

JourneyEd's history of integrity and personal customer service and knowledge of products and licensing has made us a premier partner for the major software publishers that we serve. We provide many services to make acquiring product knowledge and information easier for our educational customers including personalized service from our team of sales professionals, and competitive pricing on products from software and hardware vendors. Our Academic eStore Network ("AEN") which includes more than 15,000 online eStores, offers thousands of market-leading software and technology products, including those published by Microsoft and Adobe, at discounts of up to 85 percent off retail prices to verified academic buyers.

Our Partners

College Bookstores

• Barnes & Noble College Bookstores
• Follett Higher Education Group
• Hundreds of independents...

Colleges and Schools

• Too many to list. JourneyEd has relationships with thousands of colleges and schools throughout North America.

Manufacturers

• 3D Connexion
• Adobe
• Autodesk
• Avid
• Corel
• Google
• Microsoft
• Mindjet
• PTC
• Quark
• Symantec
• Wacom
• ...and many more

Our Subsidiaries

CCV Software, Inc.

• A K-12 division of Journey Education Marketing, Inc.
• For over 25 years, CCV Software, has been dedicated to making the best educational software titles available to K12 schools at competitive prices and with superior customer service.
• In 1982 while working as an Associate Professor in West Virginia, Dr. Catherine Chandler formed CCV Software, Inc. In 1985 Dr. Chandler and her sister, Cheryl Narum, (they are often referred to as the "Software Sisters") started selling software in their hometown of Fargo, ND and the two ventures merged a few years later. In 2005 CCV Software acquired K-12 MicroMedia Publishing. CCV Software has offices in ND, and WV.
• CCV Software's history of integrity and personal customer service and knowledge of products and licensing has made us a premier partner for the major software publishers. We provide many services to make acquiring product knowledge and information easier for our educational customers including personalized service from our team of sales professionals, competitive pricing on products from software and hardware vendors, human beings who answer the phone, an email newsletter to keep everyone up-to-date, and easy access to product information via the print catalog and our website, www.CCVSoftware.com.
• Journey Education Marketing, Inc. acquired CCV Software in February, 2008.

JourneyEd Canada, Corp.

• A wholly-owned subsidiary of Journey Education Marketing
• Provides a management extension of Journey Education Marketing into Canada to better service our growing Canadian market share.
• Incorporated in 2000.
• For more information, visit http://www.JourneyEd.ca.

Journey Education Europe GmbH & Co. KG

• Provides a management extension of Journey Education Marketing into Europe to better service our growing European market share.
• Incorporated in 2004.
• For more information, visit http://www.JourneyEdEurope.com.

Journey Publishing, Inc.

• A wholly-owned subsidiary of Journey Education Marketing
• Responsible for the publishing of various academic version software titles for Journey Education Marketing partners, from the software itself to the box it comes packaged in. (Example: ProEngineer Student Edition)
• Incorporated in 1995.

Journey Distribution

• A division of Journey Education Marketing.
• Journey Distributing (JDI), distributes products directly to college bookstores and authorized resellers for resale to academic end-users.