The Episerver to Optimizely Rebrand
What’s happening? Episerver and Optimizely will move forward as a combined company called Optimizely starting in September 2021.
What is Optimizely? The Optimizely technology platform offers digital experience optimization technologies and AI-powered personalization, which includes A/B, multivariate and server-side testing. They call it Optimization-as-a-Service.
What can current Episerver clients expect?
- The roadmap: With one brand, Episerver/Optimizely will combine their focus to accelerate their product roadmap.
- What about commerce? Episerver will continue to invest in CMS and Commerce. Commerce will remain a fundamental part of the core product offering.
- Pricing: There are no immediate pricing changes planned.
- Contract: Your contract will remain the same.
- Quotes: All quotes will be honored.
- Organizational changes: Episerver reports they have no major organizational changes planned at this time.
- Product access: The name change will not impact the products you currently access. The rebrand will not change the product’s UX. There will be a simple aesthetic change to reflect the new branding.
- The Optimizely Experimentation product will become part of our Intelligence Cloud Product Package but is sold separately.
- Training: All training subscriptions will remain the same for now.
Absolunet’s read:
- Since 2016, there has been a slew of commerce acquisitions: Adobe (4), Episerver (3), Salesforce (4) and Sitecore (2). It is a race to expand technology software suites and make them marketer-friendly.
- The Optimizely acquisition and now rebrand creates opportunities for both Episerver and Optimizely customers as the need for personalization + commerce capabilities becomes more flagrant.
- From a brand and positioning POV, this actually makes sense – Episerver was a dated name. We think the Optimizely name is more descriptive and evocative.
- When Episerver acquired Insite, the transition was comparatively smooth with lots of communication and resources for customers and partners. All signs point to this change being positive and non-disruptive for customers.
Want more info on the rebrand and product roadmap?
- See Episerver’s FAQ here.
- Watch the Episerver-hosted webinar for customers on the new brand and future product strategy here.
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