It’s just five simple words. The medium is the message. Most of us send dozens of messages every day, in email, Twitter, Facebook, and SMS. And we all know that, along with TV, radio, theater, and print, those are all examples of media. After that, all that remains in the medium is the message is… read more >
The CEM (customer experience management) world has experienced a number of content management system (CMS) mergers and acquisitions, with whispers of others on the way. The acquisitions of Sitecore, Episerver, and Ektron by private equity firms are the most prominent recent examples. This activity will only increase over the next year or two, and the… read more >
Earlier this week Adobe announced it was taking its relationship with Livefyre, the cloud-based content marketing and engagement platform, to the next level by acquiring the firm for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition, expected to officially close in the coming months, will enable Adobe Marketing Cloud customers to increase their content velocity by integrating real-time,… read more >
Introducing a new DCG Insight Paper, “The Need for Integrated Customer Experience Management” A funny thing happened on the way to the customer experience revolution. For nearly a decade, brands, vendors, and service providers alike have sworn allegiance to the goal of improving customer experiences in order to attract and retain increasingly empowered and fickle… read more >
It takes a lot of courage to announce anything, let alone an investment transaction worth more than $1 billion, on April Fools Day. But this one is serious: Stockholm-based private equity firm EQT has taken a “significant” majority interest in Sitecore, the Denmark-based content and experience management vendor. A new “EUnicorn” The deal values Sitecore… read more >
Web content management (WCM), where a marketer’s content lives and breathe, is king of the martech stack. Content, while it has always a key component of a marketer’s court, its prominence and power notched up in rank when it became the central component of delivering upon the promise of a great customer experience. The new drive… read more >
For nearly a decade, brands, vendors, and service providers alike have sworn allegiance to the goal of improving customer experiences in order to attract and retain increasingly empowered and fickle consumers. And yet, major international surveys recently found that consumers are less satisfied with the experiences they are offered. Despite all of the effort and… read more >
It’s an irony of fate that Andy Grove died last Monday just as Adobe’s Digital Marketing Summit was kicking off in Las Vegas. Adobe is (or likes to think of itself as) the poster child for our thoroughly digitized economy and culture, all of which would be unthinkable without Grove — that is, without Intel,… read more >
Most analyst firms stay well clear when it comes to the tricky topic of prices for technology. The assumption is that vendor clients of the analyst firm may take umbrage – so the mysterious work of finding out what a new software product/project will actually cost is left to the buyer to fathom out. So,… read more >
E-Commerce Round-Up covers major recent events and news from the past month in the e-commerce world, and provides a brief analysis of what they mean. This month’s Round-Up covers Snapchat’s content and commerce plans and the potential for social commerce; how Nordstrom’s recent financial results highlight the cost of going multichannel; and Stripe’s new product… read more >
