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mHUB wants to grow manufacturing in Illinois. Currently, the state is the second-largest manufacturing center in the country. The innovation center aims to hire five more to join its 23-person team. [ Built In Chicago ]
Google to hire thousands in Chicago. It plans to hire 10,000 new employees across all its offices as part of its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Currently, Google holds two Chicago offices and employs about 600 people locally. [ Built In Chicago ]
1871 launched free entrepreneurial programming. Two pilot programs, DGTL and Small Business Initiative, now provide free resources to local small-business owners. The startup hub and incubator wants to help support businesses during the pandemic. [ ChicagoInno ]
West Monroe Partners opened new office. The tech consultancy helps customers digitize their businesses. The new office includes touch-free hand sanitizers, additional AV equipment and thinned-out work stations. The company is also planning to grow its Chicago team. [ Built In Chicago ]
Genpact acquired Something Digital. The professional services firm announced the acquisition of the e-commerce firm. It will be an expansion of its experience business, Rightpoint. [ Press Release ]
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Genpact Acquires Something Digital, Uberflip Unveils Demand Solution and More CX News
Genpact , a professional digital services firm, has expanded its experience business Rightpoint with the acquisition of  Something Digital . Something Digital, based in New York City, will bring commerce expertise to Rightpoint's customer experience offerings. Genpact, based in New York City, acquired Chicago-based Rightpoint in 2019 and consolidated its TandemSeven experience business into the Rightpoint brand. Something Digital expands on that expertise. As part of Rightpoint, Something Digital's capabilities will be designed to help B2B and B2C companies with experience-driven creative and digital commerce solutions, according to company officials. Rightpoint now has access to the feature set of Magento Commerce, which powers Adobe Commerce Cloud. Something Digital will bring its Adobe capabilities to Rightpoint's existing commerce team, making Rightpoint a Gold-level Adobe Solution Partner. Gold partners develop specialized Adobe practices across multiple Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. In other customer experience and digital marketing software news ...
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Claravine , a marketing data governance software platform, has announced  $5 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Grayhawk Capital with participation from Next Frontier Capital and Peninsula Ventures, brings the company’s total funding to $12.4 million. Company officials said Claravine will use the money for product development and go-to-market strategies. SlickText Adds Marketing and Sales SaaS Execs
SlickText , which provides text marketing software, has  hired Brian Wilson  as chief revenue officer and Meg Scales as chief marketing officer. Scales will lead SlickText’s efforts to further enhance its positioning within the SMS industry. Wilson will oversee the intersection of marketing, operations, sales, customer success and overall company development. Before joining SlickText, Wilson was the vice president of sales for NextGen Healthcare. He was with Entrada, Inc., a mobile technology company, where he served as chief revenue officer, when it got acquired by NextGen Healthcare. Scales joins SlickText from Sight Machine, a manufacturing productivity platform, where she was the vice president of marketing. She also had a stint at ServiceMax as the director of revenue marketing during its acquisition by General Electric. Scales’ experience also includes roles at Infor, Qumulo and Workday. Uberflip Unveils Tech, New Board Member
Uberflip , a cloud-based content experience platform (CEP), has launched  Uberflip Campaign Essentials to power Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and demand campaigns and also named a new board member, Elissa Fink. She served as CMO at Tableau before its acquisition by Salesforce last year for $15.7 billion. As CMO at Tableau, Fink was responsible for ensuring adaptability of product and pricing. Uberflip Campaign Essentials is designed to allow marketers to create campaign destinations and personalize experiences for buyers. Users will be able to leverage intent data from Bombora, 6Sense, Demandbase, RollWorks and Clearbit. It is available today. Netlify Announces Edge Handlers
Netlify , a web development platform that uses Jamstack web architecture, has announced early access for Netlify Edge Handlers , which allows users to access personalized content in websites and web apps by executing custom code at the network edge. Edge Handlers brings edge computing into a single Git-based Jamstack workflow. Company officials promised development teams will be able to better deliver localized content, simplify A/B testing and leverage custom authentication and API aggregation and more. Developers can write JavaScript that builds and deploys to the network edge using Netlify, bringing together work streams into a single workflow tied to a common Git repository. They can also use Netlify’s platform to operate edge logic, including build automation through git, atomic deploys to Netlify’s multi-cloud edge network, site previews and instant rollbacks. Strapi Updates Headless CMS
Strapi , which provides an open-source headless content management system (CMS), has announced  enhancements to both its community and enterprise versions. The new versions add publication workflow features, such as managing drafts and privileges, and introduces templates for multiple content-driven use cases. Strapi also added a “bronze plan” that provides access to its Role Based Access Control feature at a reduced subscription price. The Strapi CMS leverages APIs and works with all the Jamstack static site generators and front-end frameworks (like Gatsby.js, Next.js, Nuxt.js, Angular, React, Vue.js). It provides support for both SQL and NoSQL databases and can be deployed in public or private cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean), Platform-as-a-Service (Heroku, Platform.sh, etc.) or on-premise servers. Treasure Data Unveils Global Partner Program
Treasure Data , a Customer Data Platform (CDP) provider,has unveiled its  Global Partner Program . The offering includes agencies, consultancies, technology service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), data specialists new certifications, training and technical, marketing and sales support for the company's CDP. Treasure Data is starting the new service with 20 partners and plans to grow. Certified Partners will help customers throughout their CDP deployments journey. For agencies, and consultancies, the program offers three tiers — bronze, silver and gold — with level-specific commitments for online training, joint marketing, market development funds (MDF), discounts and technical and sales support. Partners get access to Treasure Data’s CDP Academy training and additional certified sales and technical training matched to roles ranging from sales and marketing operations to data architects and scientists. The program is also open to select Treasure Data technology partners.

Genpact Acquires Something Digital, Uberflip Unveils Demand Solution and More CX News

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NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact (NYSE: G ), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, today announced the expansion of its experience business, Rightpoint , with the acquisition of Something Digital . The addition of Something Digital's deep commerce expertise to Rightpoint's customer experience leadership, will further enable the company's ability to drive experience-led transformation at scale for clients across industries. Today's announcement furthers Genpact's strategy to fuse experience and process innovation to help clients drive end-to-end digital transformation and win in the growing experience economy. Genpact's acquisition of Rightpoint in 2019, which consolidated its TandemSeven experience business into the Rightpoint brand, created an industry-leading experience firm. The addition of Something Digital expands on that expertise, enabling true end-to-end digital commerce that puts customer experience at the center. With consumer commerce spending increasing 44.5% year over year*, digital commerce has quickly and radically shifted from being one element of a multi-channel strategy to a primary business for many across retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and manufacturing. In this environment, having an agile, experience-centered digital commerce business has become table stakes for survival for clients around the world. "The shift from offline to online is impacting companies across every industry in a variety of ways, large and small," said Katie Stein, chief strategy officer and global business leader, enterprise services, at Genpact. "Bringing together Rightpoint's tremendous experience expertise, with Something Digital's commerce resources, creates a step change in our ability to help clients connect their enterprise front to back to finally be able to solve for experience-led, end-to-end digital commerce." As part of Rightpoint, Something Digital's capabilities will prove critical to future business success as its strategists, engineers, designers, and leaders continue to focus on and provide B2B and B2C companies with experience-driven creative and digital commerce solutions. "The experience economy rewards organizations that can connect people, process, and technology effectively to deliver the right experience at the right time, and it leaves behind those that cannot. Only by connecting front-end commerce to back-end processes, can organizations create the customer experience that consumers increasingly demand," said Ross Freedman, chief executive officer of Rightpoint. "This acquisition reinforces our ability to help our clients create competitive advantage, with an end-to-end digital commerce offering that puts customer experience front and center." "Something Digital and Rightpoint share a commitment to creating the best commerce experiences possible. Bringing our teams together will increase our collective ability to design winning solutions that drive revenue growth for our clients," said Greg Steinberg, principal and founder of Something Digital. "We look forward to bringing clients the benefits of our expanded capabilities." Through this acquisition, Rightpoint will join several of the largest companies in the world in leveraging the broad feature set of Magento Commerce, which powers Adobe Commerce Cloud. Something Digital will bring its extensive Adobe capabilities to Rightpoint's existing commerce team, making Rightpoint a Gold-level Adobe Solution Partner. Gold partners are a select group of regional companies that have earned a higher designation in a particular Adobe geographic area. Gold partners develop specialized Adobe practices across multiple Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. "As an Adobe Solution Partner, Something Digital has a strong track record in helping businesses design holistic commerce solutions that fit the needs of their customers," said Tony Sanders, senior director, Americas Partner Sales at Adobe. "We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Something Digital and congratulate Rightpoint on their growth within the Adobe partner family." Something Digital is located in New York and has more than 20 years of experience in successfully driving commerce, digital marketing, user experience, and design solutions for clients. About Rightpoint
Rightpoint, a Genpact company (NYSE: G ) is a global experience leader. Over 700 employees across 12 offices work with clients end-to-end, from defining and enabling vision, to ensuring ongoing market relevance. Our diverse teams lead with empathy, data and creativity—always in service of the experience. From whiteboard to roll-out, we help our clients embed experience across their operations from front to back offices to accelerate digital transformation through a human-centric lens. Rightpoint serves more than a quarter of the Fortune 1000. For more information, visit rightpoint.com and connect with us on LinkedIn , Twitter , Facebook and Instagram . About Genpact
Genpact (NYSE: G ) is a global professional services firm that makes business transformation real. We drive digital-led innovation and digitally-enabled intelligent operations for our clients, guided by our experience running thousands of processes primarily for Global Fortune 500 companies. We think with design, dream in digital, and solve problems with data and analytics. Combining our expertise in end-to-end operations and our AI-based platform, Genpact Cora, we focus on the details – all 90,000+ of us. From New York to New Delhi and more than 30 countries in between, we connect every dot, reimagine every process, and reinvent companies' ways of working. We know that reimagining each step from start to finish creates better business outcomes. Whatever it is, we'll be there with you – accelerating digital transformation to create bold, lasting results - because transformation happens here. Get to know us at Genpact.com and on LinkedIn , Twitter , YouTube , and Facebook . About Something Digital
Something Digital is a premier interactive agency specializing in ecommerce website design, digital strategy, and user experience. We offer strategic, creative solutions that help your business grow. For over 20 years, Something Digital's reputation for expert execution, responsive customer service, and long-lasting client relationships has made us an agency of choice for both large and small organizations. Safe Harbor
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Genpact Continues Its Investment in Rightpoint with Acquisition of eCommerce Agency, Something Digital

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Genpact , a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, announced the expansion of its experience business, Rightpoint, with the acquisition of Something Digital. The addition of Something Digital’s deep commerce expertise to Rightpoint’s customer experience leadership will further enable the company’s ability to drive experience-led transformation at scale for clients across industries. Today’s announcement furthers Genpact’s strategy to fuse experience and process innovation to help clients drive end-to-end digital transformation and win in the growing experience economy. Genpact’s acquisition of Rightpoint in 2019, which consolidated its TandemSeven experience business into the Rightpoint brand, created an industry-leading experience firm. The addition of Something Digital expands on that expertise, enabling true end-to-end digital commerce that puts customer experience at the center. With consumer commerce spending increasing 44.5% year over year, digital commerce  has quickly and radically shifted from being one element of a multi-channel strategy to a primary business for many across retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and manufacturing. In this environment, having an agile, experience-centered digital commerce business has become table stakes for survival for clients around the world. “The shift from offline to online is impacting companies across every industry in a variety of ways, large and small,” said  Katie Stein , chief strategy officer and global business leader, enterprise services, at Genpact. “Bringing together Rightpoint’s tremendous experience expertise, with Something Digital’s commerce resources, creates a step-change in our ability to help clients connect their enterprise front to back to finally be able to solve for experience-led, end-to-end digital commerce.”
As part of Rightpoint, Something Digital’s capabilities will prove critical to future business success as its strategists, engineers, designers, and leaders continue to focus on and provide B2B and B2C companies with experience-driven creative and digital commerce solutions. “The experience economy rewards organizations that can connect people, process, and technology effectively to deliver the right experience at the right time, and it leaves behind those that cannot. Only by connecting front-end commerce to back-end processes, can organizations create the customer experience that consumers increasingly demand,” said  Ross Freedman , chief executive officer of Rightpoint. “This acquisition reinforces our ability to help our clients create competitive advantage, with an end-to-end digital commerce offering that puts customer experience front and center.”
“Something Digital and Rightpoint share a commitment to creating the best commerce experiences possible. Bringing our teams together will increase our collective ability to design winning solutions that drive revenue growth for our clients,” said  Greg Steinberg , principal and founder of Something Digital. “We look forward to bringing clients the benefits of our expanded capabilities.”
Through this acquisition, Rightpoint will join several of the largest companies in the world in leveraging the broad feature set of Magento Commerce, which powers Adobe Commerce Cloud. Something Digital will bring its extensive Adobe capabilities to Rightpoint’s existing commerce team, making Rightpoint a Gold-level Adobe Solution Partner. Gold partners are a select group of regional companies that have earned a higher designation in a particular Adobe geographic area. Gold partners develop specialized Adobe practices across multiple Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. “As an Adobe Solution Partner, Something Digital has a strong track record in helping businesses design holistic commerce solutions that fit the needs of their customers,” said  Tony Sanders , senior director, Americas Partner Sales at Adobe. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Something Digital and congratulate Rightpoint on their growth within the Adobe partner family.”
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Genpact , a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, announced the expansion of its experience business, Rightpoint, with the acquisition of Something Digital. The addition of Something Digital’s deep commerce expertise to Rightpoint’s  customer experience  leadership will further enable the company’s ability to drive experience-led transformation at scale for clients across industries. Today’s announcement furthers Genpact’s strategy to fuse experience and process innovation to help clients drive end-to-end digital transformation and win in the growing experience economy. Genpact’s acquisition of Rightpoint in 2019, which consolidated its TandemSeven experience business into the Rightpoint brand, created an industry-leading experience firm. The addition of Something Digital expands on that expertise, enabling true end-to-end digital commerce that puts customer experience at the center. With consumer commerce spending increasing 44.5% year over year,  digital commerce  has quickly and radically shifted from being one element of a multi-channel strategy to a primary business for many across retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and manufacturing. In this environment, having an agile, experience-centered digital commerce business has become table stakes for survival for clients around the world. “The shift from offline to online is impacting companies across every industry in a variety of ways, large and small,” said  Katie Stein , chief strategy officer and global business leader, enterprise services, at Genpact. “Bringing together Rightpoint’s tremendous experience expertise, with Something Digital’s commerce resources, creates a step-change in our ability to help clients connect their enterprise front to back to finally be able to solve for experience-led, end-to-end digital commerce.”
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“The experience economy rewards organizations that can connect people, process, and technology effectively to deliver the right experience at the right time, and it leaves behind those that cannot. Only by connecting front-end commerce to back-end processes, can organizations create the customer experience that consumers increasingly demand,” said  Ross Freedman , chief executive officer of Rightpoint. “This acquisition reinforces our ability to help our clients create competitive advantage, with an end-to-end digital commerce offering that puts customer experience front and center.”
“Something Digital and Rightpoint share a commitment to creating the best commerce experiences possible. Bringing our teams together will increase our collective ability to design winning solutions that drive revenue growth for our clients,” said  Greg Steinberg , principal and founder of Something Digital. “We look forward to bringing clients the benefits of our expanded capabilities.”
Through this acquisition, Rightpoint will join several of the largest companies in the world in leveraging the broad feature set of Magento Commerce, which powers Adobe Commerce Cloud. Something Digital will bring its extensive Adobe capabilities to Rightpoint’s existing commerce team, making Rightpoint a Gold-level Adobe Solution Partner. Gold partners are a select group of regional companies that have earned a higher designation in a particular Adobe geographic area. Gold partners develop specialized Adobe practices across multiple Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. “As an Adobe Solution Partner, Something Digital has a strong track record in helping businesses design holistic commerce solutions that fit the needs of their customers,” said  Tony Sanders , senior director, Americas Partner Sales at Adobe. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Something Digital and congratulate Rightpoint on their growth within the Adobe partner family.”

Genpact Continues Its Investment in Rightpoint with Acquisition of Something Digital

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