New capabilities validate product quality and drive customer engagement across the development lifecycle Optimizely, the world's leader in progressive delivery and experimentation, announced that its free feature flagging plan for development teams, Rollouts, now also includes A/B testing and feature configuration. This more comprehensive solution continues to be available as the free tier in Optimizely's enterprise Full Stack platform. With the new, enhanced Rollouts plan, teams have a single set of development tools at…

"AI and Machine Learning have the potential to enhance the value of the Marketing tech stack and even how we approach Traditional Marketing strategy." Tell us about your role and journey into technology. What inspired you to start at Optimizely? At Optimizely, I work with a very talented team of Marketing, Sales Development, and Communications professionals to help tell the story of a startup that encourages its customers to embrace a culture of experimentation. In my 25-year career, I’ve kept a tight focus on helping…

For a very long time, CMOs had to rely on disparate Marketing Attribution and Optimization techniques to understand how various online activities impact your offline conversion metrics. But, things are changing very quickly with maturity of the CRMs and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs). CMOs can expect better MarTech tools to manage their Salesforce data by the time Dreamforce 2019 concludes tomorrow. One of the many CMO-friendly updates is Optimizely's latest Product launch on the AppExchange. It's called the Optimizely for…

Performance Edge, powered by Cloudflare Workers, empowers brands to scale web experimentation without fear of performance impact Optimizely, the world's leader in digital experience optimization, launched Performance Edge, a new product that enables high-performing experimentation teams to easily scale their programs and run more experiments without compromising customer experience. Performance Edge enables visual-editor based website experiments to run faster — on average in less than 50 milliseconds, or faster than the…

Performance Edge, powered by Cloudflare Workers, empowers brands to scale web experimentation without fear of performance impact Optimizely, the world's leader in digital experience optimization, launched Performance Edge, a new product that enables high-performing experimentation teams to easily scale their programs and run more experiments without compromising customer experience. Performance Edge enables visual-editor based website experiments to run faster — on average in less than 50 milliseconds, or faster than the…

New application enables developers to build content experimentation directly into Contentful’s content infrastructure  Contentful, the leading enterprise headless CMS provider, announced the release of a new Optimizely application, which allows developers to build content experimentation into Contentful, enabling faster experimentation and more efficient content delivery. The new application allows marketers to test critical marketing content without leaving Contentful. This enables more and faster content…

Optimizely Secures $50 Million From Goldman Sachs and Accenture Ventures, Bolstered by Additional $55 Million Financing From Bridge Bank Optimizely, the world's leader in digital experience optimization, announced it has closed US$105 million in financing, including US$50 million in Series D funding. The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, also included Accenture Ventures. This brings the company's total funding to US$200 million. Additionally, Michael Kondoleon of Goldman Sachs will join Optimizely's…

New Integration Automatically Syncs Optimizely Updates Within Leading Collaboration Platform to Reduce Friction in the Experimentation Process and Increase Productivity and Efficiency Optimizely, the world's leader in digital experience optimization, announced an integration with Slack, the leading global collaboration hub, that makes experimentation seamlessly accessible. This new integration allows businesses to receive updates on and make changes to experiments via Slack channels instead of logging into Optimizely's…

Optimizely integration with Jira Software helps teams build their best-in-class technology stacks and go from shipping volume to launching products with value. Optimizely, the world's leader in digital experience optimization, unveiled a new integration with Atlassian, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software. The new integration between Optimizely Full Stack and Jira Software Cloud allows developers to move faster, mitigate launch risk and measure the impact of every product release. Leading…

New capabilities automatically source and serve up highly relevant experiences at scale Optimizely, the world's leader in digital experience optimization, announced a major enhancement to its experimentation and personalization engine with Adaptive Audiences. The new capability powered by machine learning will enable brands to deliver exceptional personalized experiences for their customers at scale. According to research by eMarketer, a lack of resources is the leading barrier for global companies to achieve their…

Professor Stefan Thomke Will Serve as a Key Advisor, Ushering in a New Era of Accelerating Experimentation in the Enterprise Optimizely, the world's leader in customer experience optimization, announced that Harvard Professor Stefan Thomke is joining the company as a new member of the Optimizely Advisory Board. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a contributor to Harvard Business Review, will advise the company on a variety of product, strategy and…

Skuid’s No-Code Platform Ensures Optimizely Captures All Viable Sales Leads in Salesforce CRM Solution Skuid, the leading cloud application platform, announced that Optimizely, the world’s leading experimentation platform, selected Skuid to improve user adoption, efficiency, and value derived from its Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) software. Using Skuid’s no-code platform, Optimizely eliminated inconsistencies in workflows and processes across the entire organization. Previously, Optimizely’s CRM was…

Nate Wright Director, Product Marketing, Optimizely Optimizely has been at the forefront of CX experimentation and has brought out many enhancements that enable companies to experiment at scale. We spoke to Nate Wright, Director, Product Marketing, Optimizely to understand the benefits of their Optimizely X Program.Tell us about your role at Optimizely and the team you handle? I lead two sides of Optimizely’s product marketing team: the team responsible for experimentation and personalization solutions, as well as…

New Platform Provides Personalized Courses And Certification Programs To Expand Experimentation Skills Optimizely, the world's leading Experimentation Platform, announced the new Optimizely Academy from the company's annual customer conference, Opticon. The new training platform contains in-depth resources, courses and certification programs for marketers and developers who want to improve and gain new experimentation skills. Optimizely Academy is available now and built seamlessly into Optiverse, Optimizely's online…

Hi Eyal, from Tealium to Sisense - What inspired you to make the transition?  Helping an organization to harness the power of data to drive business improvement and optimize outcomes has always been a passion of mine. Tealium’s focus was on Customer Data Platforms, which have significant potential for organizations that want to revolutionize the customer experience. It’s an incredibly innovative space, and it was a pleasure to be part of such a growing team. Sisense to me was the next logical step, as it widens the…

"As educational content becomes more pervasive and accessible, customers will likely gravitate toward brands they recognize and trust will deliver quality." Tell us about your roles and journey before joining Udacity. My career path has been a unique one. I started on the engineering side as a web developer. Having a technical background actually enabled me to make the transition into marketing at Hotwire, where I helped build a more scalable and personalized CRM program. I wanted to continue to find opportunities…

Today’s Daily MarTech Round-up covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience AI and ML announcements from Pirate Labs (Email Marketing), 6sense (ABM), Adobe (B2B commerce), Optimizely (Customer Experience), The Yes (E-commerce). New Software ahoy! Helps Shopify Businesses Make More Money Pirate Labs has launched its latest product, ahoy!, a SaaS email marketing solution designed for ecommerce businesses to sell more while doing less. Available to Shopify and Shopify Plus stores, ahoy!…

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a popular Marketing practice among B2B companies working with larger target accounts. 58% of ABM practitioners consider their current status of revenue generation from ABM as "sophisticated". The sophistication of ABM has forced B2B Marketing teams to find out best practices in the industry for various Sales-focused activities. ABM best-practices continue to evolve with the influx of data, analytics, and marketing insights drawn from various Data Management Platforms (DMPs). We find a large…

Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia Joins Board of Directors Fivetran, an automated data integration provider, announced enterprise software veteran Bob Muglia will join its board of directors just as the company continues its explosive growth trend. Fivetran provides the most accurate and reliable way to automate data integration, a critical solution as companies across industries race to become data-driven. Within the past year, Fivetran has grown its customer base by 75 percent, now standing at just over 1,000 companies with…

The patent-pending, machine learning technology will help digital teams make big product bets faster Amplitude, the leader in product intelligence, announced that it has acquired ClearBrain, a predictive analytics startup. This is Amplitude’s first acquisition, and with it, customers will be able to instantly predict which features, campaigns and product bets are most likely to drive revenue growth without extensive A/B testing. In addition to integrating ClearBrain’s technology, Amplitude will be adding ClearBrain’s…