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Magnolia Recognized by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management

Magnolia, one of the world’s leading providers of open-source content management, recently announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management for the very first time. Magnolia was the only vendor added to the Magic Quadrant this year.

The report evaluated Web Content Management vendors based on ability to execute and completeness of vision. Magnolia was positioned the furthest for completeness of vision in the Niche Players quadrant.

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“Digitally savvy enterprises are looking for content management solutions that reduce complexity and increase speed. Magnolia 6 blends enterprise power with agility while offering freedom over the digital experience stack,” said Tim Brown, Chief Executive Officer at Magnolia. “This is one way we’ve brought a fresh and modern perspective to the content management experience. While we believe this recognition is largely due to the extensive innovation bred into our latest offerings, Magnolia’s long-standing experience and reputation has brought us to this point.”

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Magnolia’s vision of digital experience infrastructure as an open architecture, as opposed to a monolithic suite, is increasingly resonating with the market and driving the company’s accelerating growth. Rasmus Skjoldan, Chief Marketing Officer at Magnolia, added: “We’re thrilled to see that we are recognized and believe it validates our priorities.”

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REaD Group and Marie Curie Celebrate Award Success with Multi Award-Winning Insight Project

But the Real Winner Is Data

Marketing data and insight agency REaD Group has further cemented its success in data-driven and insight marketing after winning a number of awards at two separate industry events, and being shortlisted for a further three categories in a third.

Alongside Marie Curie, REaD Group was named as winner of the Best Use of Insight Award at the IoF National Fundraising Awards on 2nd July for the Big SHIFT project. The National Fundraising Awards celebrate the very best in fundraising and are a unique opportunity to showcase excellence in the charity fundraising sector.

The award follows swiftly on the heels of REaD’s win at the Insight in Fundraising Awards in June. Together with Marie Curie, REaD took home the Most Powerful Insight using Data Analysis award. The awards recognise the best work, innovation and inspirational stories of individuals working in data, analysis and insight contributing to fundraising practices.

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REaD was also shortlisted for three categories in the DataIQ Awards for Transformation with Data, alongside Marie Curie; Best Use of Data in a Marketing Programme, with customer Titan Travel; and the Best Place to Work.

“It is a genuine honour that REaD Group and Marie Curie have been recognised in these prestigious awards a reflection of the power and impact that data and insight can have on a charity’s fundraising initiatives,” commented REaD CEO, Jon Cano-Lopez. “The real winner, though, is data. In these highly regulated times, all businesses need to be confident that their data is clean, accurate, complete and compliant. And with the technology available to manage data quality more efficiently and securely advancing almost daily, there really is no excuse for it not to be.”

Deeper insight projects can completely transform business structures and promote new and more productive ways of working as the award-winning project delivered with Marie Curie UK so aptly demonstrates.

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Marie Curie provides care and support for people living with a terminal illness, and their families across the UK, with people interacting with the charity through many touchpoints, including its hospices, nursing services and shops. The Big SHIFT project aims to model the effect of these services on fundraising income. A team of senior analysts was established, both internal and external, comprising Steve White from Marie Curie, Scott Logie and Diane Dao from REaD Group, Colin Stewart from Caversham Analytics and Andrew Lockett of Natural Data Insight.

A carefully-constructed methodology enabled the creation of a baseline fundraising landscape onto which Marie Curie-specific variables were overlaid. Analysis of these ‘layers’ generated predictive models that were then mapped, highlighting areas where fundraising performance is above or below expected levels, in the context of service provision in the locality. A strategically-powerful tool, it has already delivered surprising and extremely effective insights.

“This project has been a great example of successful collaboration and team work,” commented Steve White, Fundraising Strategy and Insights Manager at Marie Curie. “Understanding these impacts has not only provided invaluable insight that helps to inform our business and marketing decisions, it has also supported the business case for different areas of the organisation working more closely together.”

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Adobe Named a Leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines & Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management

Adobe Recognized Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in Both Reports

Adobe announced that it was the only company recognized as a Leader by Gartner in both the July 2019 “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management” research report and the July 2019 “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines” research report. As one of 18 vendors evaluated, Adobe placed in the Leaders quadrant furthest to the right for completeness of vision and highest for ability to execute in the Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management. The company was named a Leader for the ninth consecutive year. In only its second year of publishing, Adobe was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines, which evaluated 14 vendors.

“Companies continue to deliver standout customer experiences leveraging Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Target to lead in Customer Experience Management (CXM),” said Aseem Chandra, senior vice president, Strategic Marketing, Adobe Experience Cloud. “With both solutions working in concert, brands can keep up with customers’ constantly growing demands by delivering personalization at scale, while significantly increasing conversions, customer satisfaction and long-term loyalty.”

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Gartner defines web content management (WCM) as “the process of creating, managing and delivering content over one or more digital channels through the use of specific management solutions based on a core repository.” Personalization engines are defined by Gartner as “software that applies context about individual users to select, tailor and deliver messaging such as content, offers and other interactions through digital channels in support of three use cases: marketing, digital commerce and customer experience (CX).”

Adobe’s WCM offering, Adobe Experience Manager Sites, and Adobe’s personalization engine, Adobe Target, both part of Adobe Marketing Cloud in Adobe Experience Cloud, empower marketers and IT professionals to anticipate and rapidly deliver personalized experiences at massive scale. Unlike other marketing solutions lacking deep contextual data and requiring manual management, Adobe helps companies of all sizes deliver fully connected experiences across any screen, wherever people are—from web, mobile and IoT devices, to point of sale and physical signage.

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With Adobe Sensei, the company’s AI and machine learning technology, brands can automatically deliver targeted content on an individual level. Experience Manager is integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud to make it easy to quickly activate creative assets across all customer touch points. Enterprise and mid-sized brands using Experience Manager and Adobe Target include AAA Northeast, American Red Cross, Anheuser-Busch, Citrix, Dun & Bradstreet, East Tennessee State University, Foot Locker, Holland America, Home Depot, National Bank of Canada, Orvis and more.

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W+R Studios Announces Homebeat, a New Tool to Keep Agents Top of Mind with Their Clients by Sending Scheduled Automated Online CMAs

Hombeat is branded to the agent and includes a call to action to request a “Full CMA” when
they are closer to selling their home

Real estate software company, W+R Studios, announced a new solution for real estate agents. Homebeat allows real estate agents to send automated online CMAs to their clients on a recurring schedule. Homebeat will be available to Cloud Agent Suite subscribers which includes Cloud CMA, Cloud Streams, Cloud MLX and Cloud Attract.

W+R Studios is an industry leader developing software solutions that leverage MLS data to improve and streamline fundamental real estate functions such as creating CMA reports, sending listing alerts, searching the MLS and lead generation.

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“The National Association of REALTORS has stats that show agent satisfaction close to 80%, making it a well-known industry fact that a majority of consumers were happy with their agent. Yet only 11% of those consumers use that same agent again. Why? Agents are not doing a good job of keeping in touch with their past clients” -stated Greg Robertson co-founder and CEO of W+R Studios.

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“With Homebeat agents will stay top of mind with their previous clients and sphere of influence (SOI) by providing scheduled, automated on-line CMAs” continued Mr. Robertson. “Agents will set the frequency of the email notification (monthly, quarterly or yearly) that links to each client’s personal Homebeat page, which will show them how their home, typically their largest financial asset, compares to other homes in the neighborhood” concluded Mr. Robertson.

Homebeat is free to try for 30 days and will be rolling out in select markets starting in August. Homebeat requires active Cloud CMA subscription either through direct subscription, through their broker or through their MLS organization.

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Nuance Unveils Name and Brand Identity for Its Automotive Spin-Off: Cerence Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of conversational AI, announced the name for its upcoming Automotive spin-off: Cerence Inc. This new brand and identity will become official when the business separates from Nuance on October 1, 2019. At that time, Cerence Inc. will become an independent, publicly traded automotive software company.

Cerence is an invented name and word, coined from powerful visual and linguistic associations with intelligence, experience, serenity and control. The word has smooth, visually consistent letterforms and natural pronunciation across languages: “Cer” which rhymes with air and “ence” like sense. Visually, the new logo is inspired in part by the right and left sides of the human brain – a blend of art and science as well as experience and innovation – and the typography invokes fluidity and forward motion.

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“We are excited to unveil Cerence, an elegant, modern name and fresh start for a company and brand that will grow to represent the many ways we bring solutions to market,” said Richard Mack, senior vice president of Corporate Marketing and Communications at Nuance and future Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Cerence. “We believe Cerence exudes the right balance of strength, elegance, confidence and control, and we look forward to bringing to this brand to life.”

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The business delivers immersive experiences that make people feel happier, safer, more informed, and more entertained in their cars. Bringing together voice, touch, gesture, emotion, and gaze innovations, it creates deeper connections between drivers, their cars and the digital world around them. It currently powers A.I. in more than 280 million cars on the road globally across more than 40 languages and for nearly every major automaker in the world, including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, Geely, GM, SAIC, Toyota, and many more.

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Episerver Named a Leader for the Fifth Consecutive Year in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management

Episerver, the company transforming digital experiences, announced it has been positioned within the Leaders quadrant of the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management. Episerver has been recognized as a Leader for five years in a row, and this year improved its position on the ability to execute and completeness of vision axes compared to the previous year. A complimentary copy of the full Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management report is available from Episerver.

Episerver believes this placement is further validation of how its product portfolio cohesively works together to help business users deliver the most intelligent and individualized content to their customers. Earlier this month, Episerver was also recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines as a Challenger and one of four vendors to appear in both that evaluation and the Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management. Further, Episerver scored 4.2 out of 5.0 in personalization criterion in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for WCM and a 3.7 in cloud criterion.

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“Our obsession with staying one step ahead of our customers’ needs is paying off and is a tribute to our agility as a company,” said Justin Anovick, head of worldwide product at Episerver. “Marketers and CMS users are in the driver’s seat of their brand, so they don’t want shelf-ware or empty promises and our teams embrace that as a personal mission.  Our customers require elasticity, scale and usability to make a project an immediate success, while proving value as they launch the next project.”

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Case in point, as the first new high street bank to open in the UK in more than 150 years, industry challenger Metro Bank™ needed to ensure its digital experiences could keep up with its rapid growth and modern style. Using Episerver, they launched a complex, large-scale project in just five months with immediate benefits from stronger content management capabilities, resulting in more time to create valuable experiences for customers. Detecting user location to deliver personalized content allows Metro Bank to engage meaningfully with online visitors – all while following strict security and compliance standards and having the site load in less than two seconds for 90 percent of visitors.

“I’ve worked in the WCM world since there was a WCM world, and I believe Episerver leads by a wide margin when talking value,” said Nate Barad, director of product marketing at Episerver. “Moving up and over in a Gartner Magic Quadrant is what every vendor wants, but in my opinion, Episerver has always been the one to beat from a time to value and usability standpoint.”

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Bizzabo Study: Event Marketers See a 45% Increase In Attendee Engagement With Branded Event Apps

Study also finds event marketers experience a 50% upswing in event app adoption with fully-branded experiences  

Bizzabo, the world’s leading end-to-end Event Success Platform, released an analysis examining event app adoption and impact, studying over 70 events across various industries, including Publishing, Computer Software, Insurance, and beyond. Ultimately, the study found that fully-branded, white-labeled event apps experience a 50 percent increase in adoption and that event marketers see a 45 percent increase in attendee engagement when using them — plus much more.

For the analysis, Bizzabo compared events first hosted in Bizzabo’s own third-party app to those same events that later used a fully-branded event app created via Bizzabo’s white-label event app solution, the Ultra Branded App. Bizzabo’s Ultra Branded App empowers event marketers with the tools they need to create a unified and engaging on-brand experience for all of their events with a white-label branding option. By turning their app into a fully-branded experience, event marketers are able to build an engaged event community, keep attendees up-to-date at all times and gather meaningful data to further personalize the attendee experience.

“From buying groceries to banking and shopping, we rely on apps for almost everything,” said Eran Ben-Shushan, CEO and Co-Founder of Bizzabo. “Because of this, our relationships with apps have become personal. We have come to expect app experiences that are customized to our needs and preferences. Apps for events are no exception. That is why we created our Ultra Branded Event App, to elevate the attendee experience by arming event marketers with a tool to turn their applications into fully-branded and personalized experiences.”

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According to Bizzabo’s deep dive, event marketers using a fully-branded app saw increased audience adoption by a rate of 50 percent. Audience engagement also increased by 45 percent.

“Our all-in-one platform addresses every event marketers’ needs, personalizing engagement so a 1,000 person event feels like 1,000 different experiences,” added Ben-Shushan. “This latest study further strengthens what we at Bizzabo already knew – it’s more important than ever for event marketers to be able to increase their brand awareness – and we’re happy to help make it possible,” concluded Ben-Shushan.

Bizzabo’s study revealed, with the use of white-label event apps, there was a 51 percent increase in optimized sponsorship ROI and that attendees’ networking opportunities through the app also went up by 84 percent.

“The amount of feedback that we received with the white label app was overwhelmingly positive,” said Dasha Sukovatitsyn, Operations Manager at Coindesk. “Across the board about everything; the agenda, the updates we have been making, speaker profiles, being able to communicate, and more.”

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The Bizzabo platform allows marketers to measure performance and ROI with end-to-end branded experiences for attendees to fully immerse themselves in their events. The company’s white-label event app solution enables event marketers to create a more personalized experience for attendees to engage with their brand, building an event community in order to form more meaningful connections.

“The fully-branded app looks very good,” said Gian Paolo Andreis, Head of Marketing at Ontario Centres of Excellence. “The fact that we can actually present our brand name and have our own imagery all throughout the attendee experience really helps us promote the app in an easy way.”

Trusted by over 10,000 live events worldwide, Bizzabo not only provides the software solution to create on-brand apps through the Bizzabo Ultra Branded App, but also the marketing expertise to optimize the app store appearance in order to reach maximum adoption rate.

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Tag, AI Is It: Musiio Offers DIY Window into the Power of AI Music Curation

Musiio insists that if the human ear can hear it, AI can learn it. And they have the link to prove it.

The Singapore-based startup wants everyone to experience how AI curation works. It’s providing a window into this often misunderstood world with its new DIY AI. Drop your favorite YouTube video link here, and watch Musiio generate at least eight custom tags, including genre, BPM, key, and mood, in approximately 10 seconds.

Musiio has created an AI model that uses audio fingerprinting to surface, tag, sort, and playlist tracks swiftly, accurately, and on a massive scale. It has been trained on music from around the world and can recognize a great swath of the planet’s music, especially East Asian and Pacific styles and languages. For music that falls within its largest training sets, like Western pop, its accuracy easily hits 99%.

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The DIY AI demo lets anyone play around with technology that promises to radically improve search, discovery, and curation, for everything from sync to ambient musical applications. “Smartphones and home studios have brought about the democratization of audio production, but one of the challenges for the music industry now is to figure out how to handle this volume,” explains Musiio co-founder and music tech veteran Hazel Savage, whose work has spanned the music business, from punk guitarist to record store clerk to an executive at Shazam. “It takes one person 83 days non-stop to listen to 40,000 new songs. Our AI can perform the task in under 4 hours. As music is created and released at a rate that is one million times greater than it was ten years ago, AI can solve problems that humans simply can’t.”

Alums of talent investors Entrepreneur First’s incubator and Midemlab finalists, Musiio first built a powerful tool for search, ideal for finding the right track in huge catalogs. Its fingerprinting technology–turning the audio file into mathematical visuals–allows someone to drop a file in and find 10-20 other files with similar sonic features, no tags or other metadata required. “We didn’t build it around assumptions of ‘this is what music is,’” explains Savage. “You don’t need data; you just need to train the model to match patterns.”

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As Musiio evolved, the team discovered that tags were in high demand. They taught their models to compare audio features, find similarities, and connect them with appropriate, completely customizable tags. The platform can also generate playlists based on these features.

Musiio aims to turn the firehose of music into manageable streams, teaching AI to listen for us and help us. “We’re focussed on the curation of music using AI, not on generation or other aspects of the creation and listening process,” reflects Savage. “It’s important because in our world, AI for music is not scary: it contains no sentience; it definitely isn’t a robot trying to steal your job, quite the opposite in fact. We aim to help artists be found and labels and streaming services to deliver a better, more personalized product.” It’s a service music fans are coming to expect and music-based businesses desperately need, one that Musiio makes possible.

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Cint Acquires P2Sample to Expand Its Audience Reach and Enhance Powerful Programmatic Capabilities

Cint, the technology platform that accelerates insight gathering in marketing research, announces its acquisition of 100 percent of P2Sample, a US-based company with one of the most powerful programmatic sampling platforms in the consumer insights industry.

This acquisition is a step forward for Cint in achieving its ultimate vision of being the technology backbone of the world’s most innovative insight companies. It brings in three distinct strategic advantages to Cint.

Firstly, it will benefit from integrating into P2Sample’s more than 200 supplier relationships that include affiliate networks, publisher networks, Google, Facebook, eBay, ad agencies and blog networks. This will now enable Cint customers to access over 100 million panelists across more than150 countries in its Insight Exchange.

Secondly, by integrating with P2Sample, Cint will gain advantages in powerful programmatic access to sample demand and supply, over 100 API integrations and advanced artificial intelligence-based fraud detection capabilities that are considered best in the market.

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Thirdly, Cint will gain P2Sample’s employees who, jointly with its own employees, will help to create incredible value to customers and partners of both companies.

Post-acquisition, P2Sample’s co-founders Mathijs de Jong (CEO) and Janna de Bruijne (COO), will remain in senior leadership roles in the combined entity. They will also join the global management group and help lead key strategic initiatives across the collective organisation.

Tom Buehlmann, CEO of Cint, said, “This is great news for our customers and partners. Cint and P2Sample have a strong shared culture and are two wonderfully complementary businesses. We are impressed with P2Sample’s technology, know-how, supply chain and people. This acquisition creates a global sampling powerhouse with an enormous reach that will provide clients with data they can trust, rock solid dependability and the peace of mind of a partner who is constantly innovating. Together, we are superbly poised to rise to the challenges of the digital age in the market research space.”

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Mathijs de Jong, P2Sample’s current CEO, said, “We share Cint’s vision about the evolution of the industry and see huge potential in the combination. Cint is an organisation whose principles and culture are virtually identical to ours. We are excited to join the Cint team at this pivotal moment in time, and we are confident that it’s the right move.”

Due to Cint’s supplier agnostic go-to-market model, post-acquisition the company plans to divest the two P2Sample proprietary panel assets Points2Shop and SurveyRewardz.

The two organisations are to operate as separate entities and will be brought together under the Cint Group umbrella by the end of 2019.

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