monthly recap CMS Monthly Recap: WordPress VIP Acquires Parse.ly, Siteimprove Releases Upgrade, Segment's 2021 CDP Report, and More Well, it's been another action-packed month in the CMS and DXP worlds, and there's barely time to process the news. Just as we finished breaking down Gartner's 2021 Magic Quadrant Paris Tuzun February 26 • 6 min read
gartner Key Takeaways from Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms As winter tightens its steely grip across the Northern Hemisphere, digital experience platform vendors have been clenching their jaws in anticipation. But the wait is finally over. Recently, Gartner – the CMS Critic Staff February 25 • 12 min read
amazon Andy Jassy, Amazon’s new CEO, signals bold future for cloud and digital experiences "Amazon Web Services Everything" by jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0 A short while after Amazon said hello to $100 billion in a single quarter, it said goodbye CMS Critic Staff February 15 • 7 min read
signal Signal Gains 42 Million Users Fleeing WhatsApp, Facebook Over Privacy Policy A few weeks ago, over 2 billion WhatsApp users had a rude awakening. The popular instant messaging service – which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for a whopping $19 billion Paris Tuzun February 9 • 5 min read
bloomreach Bloomreach Acquires Exponea, Secures $150M Investment to Power E-Commerce SaaS Expansion Bloomreach, a leading Digital Experience Platform (DXP), has announced their acquisition of Exponea, a Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP). This news comes just months after both companies publicized a Paris Tuzun February 3 • 4 min read
episerver Episerver Rebrands as Optimizely Following Acquisition Fresh off the acquisition of Optimizely last September, Episerver – a leading content management and digital experience platform – has announced that it will rebrand its entire organization under the Optimizely name. Paris Tuzun January 29 • 5 min read
acquia Acquia Digital Commerce Unifies Data, Content, Commerce, and Digital Merchandising This week was full of surprises from some big DXP players. A couple of days ago, Sitecore announced that it received $1.2 billion in capital investment to accelerate growth. Paris Tuzun January 26 • 4 min read
sitecore Sitecore Announces $1.2B Investment to Accelerate Growth The last year has seen a number of jaw-dropping moves by CMS and DXP vendors, from strategic acquisitions to major expansions. Yesterday, Sitecore elevated the noise to a whole new Paris Tuzun January 20 • 2 min read
uxpin UXPin Review: Elevate Design with All-in-one Prototyping and Wireframing If you asked today’s web designers which wireframing or prototyping tool is best, you’re likely to get a few different answers. Well, maybe more than a few. As Paris Tuzun January 18 • 9 min read
security Netsparker Review: Web Application Security and Vulnerability Scanner Hackers love websites. Maybe that's overstating the obvious, but in today's hyperconnected digital world, it can't be understated. According to McAfee, hackers produce 300,000 new pieces of malware daily Paris Tuzun January 5 • 8 min read
ButterCMS Introduces Dynamic Landing Pages with Components ButterCMS has been a favorite of developers for years, garnering some of the best reviews of any headless CMS on the market. Now, with the addition of its new Components Paris Tuzun December 18 • 5 min read
Webflow Review: Hybrid Website Builder and CMS Bridges the Design/Code Chasm “To code, or not to code, that is the question…” Indeed. And Shakespeare would have loved the drama that followed. This fiery debate around code versus no-code web design has Paris Tuzun December 11 • 11 min read
aws Solodev CMS Achieves AWS Public Safety & Disaster Response Competency Status Paris Tuzun December 3 • 3 min read
Contentstack Partners with Translations.com, Adds Localization to Headless CMS Paris Tuzun November 22 • 3 min read
monthly recap CMS Monthly Recap: Acquia Gets Feature Boosts, Cloudinary and Contentful Partner, Big Acquisition Updates and More Paris Tuzun November 13 • 7 min read
sugarcrm SugarCRM Acquires Reseller W-Systems to Meet Demand for CRM Implementation Services Paris Tuzun November 10 • 3 min read
twilio Twilio Acquires Segment for $3.2B, Adds Market-leading CDP for Building Data-Driven Apps Communication has always been at the heart of Twilio's mission, and this week’s acquisition of Segment – a leading vendor in the red-hot Customer Data Platform (CDP) space – sent a Paris Tuzun November 6 • 5 min read
partnership Bloomreach and Exponea Announce Strategic Partnership to Energize Digital Commerce Experiences Bloomreach, a leading Digital Experience Platform (DXP), and Exponea, the Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP), have announced a strategic alliance to offer more enhanced digital commerce experiences to the Paris Tuzun November 3 • 3 min read