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Magnolia announces strategic financial partner

Magnolia, a Swiss CMS vendor, announced today Elvaston as a new strategic financial partner.

Based on Magnolia’s quality product and solid financial results, this long-term partnership sets Magnolia up for further sustainable growth and gives the privately-held company more resources to build an even stronger and better product.

In particular, the partnership will enable Magnolia to strengthen its business operations in all functional areas, to more effectively tap into the benefits of the cloud and to build leading-edge content management functionality. Magnolia CMS is available in the cloud or on-premises and integrates both traditional and headless deployment.

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Acquia Names Michael Sullivan CEO, Dries Buytaert Elevated to Chairman

Acquia announced the selection of Michael Sullivan as Chief Executive Officer, effective in December 2017. Sullivan, 52, has extensive experience in building market-leading, high-growth SaaS organizations and has led the acquisition and integration of numerous companies over the course of his career. He brings to Acquia 25 years of focused experience in content management, archival solutions, electronic discovery and enterprise content governance solutions, and joins Acquia as the company marks its 10th anniversary as a pioneer in cloud-based, open source web content management.

ESW Capital Acquires DNN Corp.

DNN Corp. has just announced that ESW Capital has acquired the company to further invest in the CMS platform as well as the DNN open source ecosystem.

"Together with the open source community, DNN Corp. has over a decade of experience enabling customers to be successful in managing their digital content," said Andy Tryba, the new CEO of DNN Corp., and added: "As mid-market firms continue to invest in content growth strategies - DNN's simple, cost-effective and extensible CMS platform is now mission critical."

Elegant MicroWeb Announces Completion of Over 100 eCommerce Solutions

Elegant MicroWeb is pleased to announce the successful completion and implementation of over 100 eCommerce solutions. This achievement represents a proud legacy of nearly twenty years and a clientele and partnership program that is both local and global. Elegant MicroWeb provides a full suite of eCommerce services from design and development to configuration, integration, support, training, upgrade and maintenance.

Tikit secures new win following global NetDocuments partnership

Integrated legal cloud DMS solution addresses accessibility, mobility, security and usability challenges

London – Tuesday 7th March 2017 - Tikit, part of the BT Group and leading provider of technology solutions for law and professional services firms, has today announced a new business win with NetDocuments. Al Bawardi Critchlow, a London-based commercial law firm with a particular focus on high value and cross-border disputes resolution, has selected NetDocuments’ native cloud-based document management system (DMS) supplied by Tikit.

SDL Expands Executive Team with New Chief Product Officer

Jim Saunders to lead product strategy and development                                 

WAKEFIELD, MA – February 14, 2017 - SDL (LSE:SDL) announced today that Jim Saunders has been appointed as Chief Product Officer (CPO). This announcement highlights the company’s focus and investment in technology solutions to address the growing content and translation needs in today’s digital world and their role in the company’s strategy.

HotDocs partners with Codec-dss

HotDocs, the global leader in document automation software, has today announced its partnership with Codec-dss, a provider of enterprise scale applications and infrastructure that has served the Irish market for more than 30 years.

This new partnership agreement will provide Codec-dss clients with HotDocs’ industry leading document automation technology, which enables enhanced compliance, minimised risk, improved quality and increased operational efficiency in the production of business-critical documentation.

Perforce Announces Acquisition of ALM Provider Seapine Software

Acquisition Expands Portfolio of Developer and Designer Productivity and Collaboration Tools

Minneapolis, MN, November 17, 2016—Perforce Software, a leader in version control and source code management, today announced its acquisition of Seapine Software, a leading provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, based in Mason, Ohio.