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Shareholders of San Mateo, Calif.-based Marketo approved the proposed sale of the marketing automation provider to Vista Equity Partners for $1.79 billion in a July 28 vote, according to a United States Securities and Exchange Commission document.
Of the more than 37 million shares of stock represented at the meeting
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Salesforce swallowed e-commerce vendor Demandware whole. It embraced its $2.8 billion snack and moved on.
Nothing more to see here, right?
Sort of. Except in the aftermath of the deal people started asking questions. Yes, Demandware is an e-commerce vendor and will ultimately fit nicely into the Salesforce portfolio.
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Only one vendor is ranked a leader in Forrester Research's evaluation of digital experience platforms — and there's no sign that will change in the near future.
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Forrester Research finally allowed a software provider through its digital experience leaders door — just not all the way through.
A year ago, the Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm did not select any digital experience leaders in its Wave for Digital Experience Platforms.
Today, in its second annual report, it named
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Acquia targeted personalized digital experiences at its first customer conference last fall. This year, it's turning its attention to internal processes, specifically enterprises that need to share content between web content management systems (Web CMS) and other digital distribution channels.
Today, at its Acquia Engage Conference, Boston-based Acquia released the
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It's in with the new and good-bye to the old today at Acquia.
The Boston-based digital experience provider simultaneously welcomed a new CMO and parted ways with former CMO Tom Wentworth.
Wentworth, who moved from CMO to senior vice president of product in August, is leaving the company to become CMO of open source
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Investors today gave Boston-based digital experience software provider Acquia $55 million in a funding round that will help the open-source, Drupal-based Web Content Management System (Web CMS) company “build out in all areas,” according to a company executive.
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Acquia's top marketing executive is switching roles.
Tom Wentworth, the outspoken CMO of the 710-employee Andover, Mass.-based digital experience provider, is moving to the role of senior vice president of product at Acquia. He will oversee a team of about 30.
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Web Content Management vendors are “chasing the idea of digital experience and better engagement,” said Gartner analyst Mick MacComascaigh.
Most vendors have streamlined their approach to align their trajectory with those customer-centric goals, but the pace of their progress varies, MacComascaigh told CMSWire.
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More than four years of waiting for the new release of the world’s second largest open source web content management systems (CMS) is winding to a close.
The team at Drupal plan to release long awaited, much discussed Drupal 8 in less than a month — Aug.
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Shopping for a product or service online should be an engaging, immersive experience. Something that helps connect you to a business or brand, entices you to wander and spend time on the site and leaves you with “that loving feeling” or at least some sense of a relationship.
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Is open source the next big thing? At least that's what it seems, based on a burst of unrelated news in the past month. As CMSWire writer Miles Kehoe explained a few weeks ago, "Open source software has gone from quirky and free to mainstream for the enterprise.
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The latest in rolling out, certifying, growing, succeeding, collaborating, partnering and connecting from Beervana, the Square Mile, the Puritan State, the Big Apple and the Grape State and Rubber City and the Capital of the South. The Age of Acquia?
Acquia is basking this week in the glow of 2014.
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Forget the Patriots vs. Seahawks. Starbucks vs. Dunkin Donuts. Tom Brady against Russell Wilson. The 49th Super Bowl of the National Football League -- set for Sunday, Feb. 1 -- also features an undercard of two respected tech cities going head to head.
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