Category Archives: content management

Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform

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Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33.5 million Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from OMERS Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules. In […] Continue reading Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform→

After its acquisition, Magento starts integrating Adobe’s personalization and analytics tools

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It’s been less than six months since Adobe acquired commerce platform Magento for $1.68 billion and today, at Magento’s annual conference, the company announced the first set of integrations that bring the analytics and personalization features of Adobe’s Experience Cloud to Magento’s Commerce Cloud. In many ways, the acquisition of Magento helps Adobe close the […] Continue reading After its acquisition, Magento starts integrating Adobe’s personalization and analytics tools→

Box opens up about the company’s approach to innovation

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Most of us never really stop to think about how the software and services we use on a daily basis are created. We just know it’s there when we want to access it, and it works most of the time. But companies don’t just appear and expand randomly, they need a well defined process and […] Continue reading Box opens up about the company’s approach to innovation→

Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter

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Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Butter.AI team will be joining Box. Butter.AI was started by two ex-Evernote employees, Jack Hirsch and Adam Walz. The company was partly funded by Evernote […] Continue reading Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter→

Box acquires Progressly to expand workflow options

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Box announced today that it has purchased Progressly, a Redwood City startup that focuses on workflow. All 12 Progressly employees will be joining Box immediately. They did not disclose the purchase price. If you follow Box, you probably know the company announced a workflow tool in 2016 called Box Relay along with a partnership with […] Continue reading Box acquires Progressly to expand workflow options→

Box expands Zones to manage content in multiple regions

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When Box announced Zones a couple of years ago, it was providing a way for customers to store data outside the U.S., but there were some limits. Each customer could choose the U.S. and one additional zone. Customers wanted more flexibility, and today the company announced it was allowing them to choose to multiple zones. […] Continue reading Box expands Zones to manage content in multiple regions→

Zendesk hits $500M run rate, launches enterprise content management platform

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Over the last several years, Zendesk has been making the transition from a company that caters mostly to small businesses to one with larger enterprise customers — and their revenue reflects that. The company announced it has crossed the $.5 billion annual run rate since its last earning report in February. It also announced a […] Continue reading Zendesk hits $500M run rate, launches enterprise content management platform→

Box’s dalliance with AI foretells a broader shift in content management

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 As Box CEO Aaron Levie pointed out at his BoxWorks keynote this week, content management has been an evolving field since it came into being as an enterprise software concept in the 1990s. Back in those days, the state of the art was network driv… Continue reading Box’s dalliance with AI foretells a broader shift in content management→

Box Skills applies AI and machine learning to growing multimedia content

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 Box CEO Aaron Levie has always had a vision for the company that extended well beyond its earliest use case as way to transfer files between machines online. His company has continually kept looking to the future at ways the Box toolset could ada… Continue reading Box Skills applies AI and machine learning to growing multimedia content→

OpenText acquires forensic security vendor Guidance Software for $240 million

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 OpenText, the content management company based in Waterloo, Ontario announced today that it was buying Guidance Software, a forensic security and eDiscovery vendor for $240 million.
OpenText agreed to pay Guidance shareholders $7.10 a share. The price will be less Guidance’s cash on hand of approximately $18 million, making the final price just around $222 million, according to OpenText. Read More Continue reading OpenText acquires forensic security vendor Guidance Software for $240 million→