On January 5, 2015 OpenText announced its acquisition of Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC). In this podcast, Digital Clarity Group’s Connie Moore and Chris Walker discuss what the acquisition means for OpenText and its customers.
In this discussion Marianne Kay and Mary Laplante talk about the merger of the two CMS vendors, Ektron and EPiServer, under the new Accel-KKR ownership. read more >
EPiServer and Ektron, two content management system (CMS) vendors acquired by Accel-KKR in December 2014, have merged today to form a single company. The combined company “will operate under the EPiServer name and continue to use the Ektron and EPiServer brands”. For Ektron and EPiServer customers this spells a period of uncertainty. Until the two… read more >
February 4, 2015. Online webinar with Marianne Kay and Mary Laplante. read more >
In this discussion Marianne Kay and Mary Laplante talk about Accel-KKR investment in Ektron and EPiServer, and what it means for Ektron and EPiServer customers. read more >
In December 2014 Ektron and EPiServer were acquired by a private equity firm Accel-KKR. In this podcast Connie Moore and Scott Liewehr discuss what this acquisition means for Ektron and EPiServer customers.
Whether the end game is a new web content management system for the entire enterprise, or a marketing automation platform for your sales and marketing team, or a collaboration tool for the PMO, identifying who the project’s stakeholders are, and how they fit into the effort is an important task to complete early on in… read more >
To mark the publication of a new Digital Clarity Group Insight Paper, “The New Role for Documentation in the Era of Customer Experience Management,” consider this historical tale. Although we now date the early 15th-century as the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe at the time was still more medieval than modern… read more >
It was an exciting weekend for the folks at Ektron, having received a second round of growth equity funding from their primary backer, private equity firm Accel-KKR. Unfortunately, they learned a hard lesson about public relations in the process. While their announcement said they received a “significant” investment, their inspired base of ex-employees illegally leaked documents… read more >
In the web content management space, acquisitions are a fact of business life. About a third of all leading WCM systems are results of past acquisitions. For example, Adobe acquired content management capabilities through Day Software in 2010. Oracle acquired Fatwire in 2011, as well as Stellent in 2006. OpenText acquired Vignette (2009), and also… read more >
