I thought we’d just ease into the Labor Day weekend today but here’s some actual news: digital experience platform Episerver has purchased optimization platform Optimizely. It’s Episerver’s third acquisition since it was bought by private equity investor Insight Venture Partners in September 2018. Price was not announced.
Not much usually happens on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, but Salesforce did let slip news that it is buying headless online storefront Mobify. It’s a nice extension of Salesforce’s existing ecommerce capabilities and another sign of increased competition as online sales take a larger share of retail pie.
Did you notice that today’s items all start with a question? RichRelevance has some new answers about what buyers want. They just launched “deep recommendations”, which can predict how products will sell before they’ve been offered. The company says that system yields 80% higher sales than standard recommendation engines.
CDP and marketing automation platform Bloomreach announced the availability of a next generation version of Bloomreach Engagement. Deploying Bloomreach’s Loomi AI capabilities, campaign creation within Bloomreach Engagement will become something “one marketer can complete in minutes.” Campaigns can be scaled across fifteen-plus channels.