commercetools, a leading headless e-Commerce platform, recently announced the acquisition of Frontastic, a composable frontend platform. The purchase comes just a few months after commercetools announced a $140 million Series C funding round – a plump investment, to be sure, and one that the company hopes will broaden the reach of its game-changing commerce technology for creating... Read More →
Kentico has been helping to shape the CMS landscape for almost two decades. A timeline on their website suggests that the company was born prior to 2004, out of the senior thesis of Petr Palas – Kentico's founder and CEO. It even spins lore about this hallowed thesis living on a floppy disc somewhere, presumably in an underground vault, where it acts as the company's "lucky charm." A lot has... Read More →
Ah, the API. It's not just another fancy TLA (three-lettered acronym) reserved for "MarTalk." In fact, it's fair to say that the API – Application Programming Interface for the unindoctrinated – is responsible for transforming the CMS and DXP industries. Without APIs, the integrations and connections that live at the heart of modern systems wouldn't exist. Where would brands like AWS,... Read More →
It's hard to believe that October has already come and gone. Maybe we can blame Halloween and the ensuing candy coma, but last month seemed surprisingly quiet in the CMS and DXP news cycle. But that's not entirely true: rather than tracking big mergers or major releases, we were served a number of small yet significant improvements from various vendors – more like those mini-sized candy... Read More →
"Composable" is becoming the operative word across the DXP marketplace. And rightly so: a composable platform has huge benefits, enabling users to build dynamic web and app experiences more efficiently by reusing content and other components that can be personalized at scale. Composable systems also allow for more iterative testing across multiple variants, enabling marketers to optimize... Read More →
