Acquia To Acquire Widen, Advancing Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform
Acquia announced that it has agreed to acquire Widen. Widen unites digital assets such as rich media, product information and marketing copy in a single workflow and provides an intuitive interface to democratise access for marketers to all of a brand’s resources. By providing a foundation for collaboration, coordination and control of the full digital […]
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Acquia announced that it has agreed to acquire Widen. Widen unites digital assets such as rich media, product information and marketing copy in a single workflow and provides an intuitive interface to democratise access for marketers to all of a brand’s resources. By providing a foundation for collaboration, coordination and control of the full digital content lifecycle, Widen will enable marketers and website builders to create richer and more distinctive customer experiences using Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
“Acquia has long been an established leader in managing textual website content. Now, with Widen, we will be able to offer world-class capabilities around rich media and product information content,” said Dries Buytaert, Co-founder and CTO of Acquia. “Widen is consistently ranked a leader by industry analysts for vision, execution and market presence. We have numerous joint customers today, and believe Widen software will deliver value to Acquia Marketing Cloud and Drupal Cloud customers. We’re excited to welcome the Widen team to the Acquia family and to collaborate with them on Acquia Open DXP.”
“With Widen, we continue to differentiate Acquia Open DXP by adding enterprise-grade, cloud-native DAM and PIM capabilities,” said Mike Sullivan, President and CEO of Acquia. “We will immediately invest in accelerated development of the Widen solution, and leverage our global capabilities and partner network to bring it to marketing organisations that use Acquia Open DXP to manage, transform and deliver digital assets at scale.”
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Acquia Open DXP with Widen maximises the value of digital content
Today, 700 organisations, including Energiser, New Balance, Crayola and Hootsuite, use Widen solutions to deliver content with confidence.
“Content is the heart of any digital experience,” said Matthew Gonnering, CEO of Widen. “It influences action across marketing channels; email, social media, content management systems, marketing campaigns, eCommerce, product information management and more. By combining with Acquia, a company that shares Widen’s belief that radical innovation starts with a commitment to customers and the community, we will continue to rapidly innovate our solutions to support the first and only open digital experience platform.”
Widen solutions simplify how marketers create, review, manage, distribute and analyse content across the content lifecycle. Its design and architecture make it uniquely able to support complex marketing workflows and enterprise DXP requirements. These encompass use cases that go beyond managing creative assets to include storing unstructured data such as legal documents, insurance claims and contact lists. The marketing-friendly Widen PIM solution brings product data from creators to customers, centralising it for syndication across websites, catalogues and eCommerce channels.
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