Digital experience vendor Sitecore has fully integrated its Web content management capabilities with four 2021 acquisitions  including the Boxever CDP, Four51 ecommerce system, Moosend email server, and Reflektion site search engine. In addition to data unification, Boxever provided Sitecore with testing, real-time personalization, and connectors to email systems including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Responsys, and Klayvio.

Digital engagement programs earn high rewards, even though companies overestimate the quality of their personalization, according to this data-rich Twilio Segment report.  Revenue increased an average of 70% among firms that invested in digital customer engagement in the past two years.  But while 27% of companies believe they deliver excellent personalized experiences, only 7% of consumers agree.  Also, companies underestimate consumers’ interest in privacy and transparency.  Lots more here.

Amperity has launched its Customer Data Cloud, a solution designed to support the transformation of raw data in a warehouse or lake into usable business assets. New capabilities include real-time reaction to streaming customer data and no-copy access to customer data in Snowflake and AWS.