Composable commerce vendor commercetools has appointed a new CEO. Senior business executive Andrew Burton has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) succeeding Dirk Hoerig, who will remain on the Board and transition to the role of Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) instead. 

“Throughout our search for the right leader to continue driving our innovative infrastructure forward, Andrew stood out as the clear choice to complement our executive team and lead commercetools into its next chapter of growth and expansion,” said commercetools CIO & Co-Founder, Dirk Hoerig.

Elsewhere, Kentico is celebrating its recognition in the G2 Grid Report for Digital Experience Platforms Summer 2024, Strapi 5 is released with a host of new features, and the discussion about the universal CMS concept has seen some back and forth on LinkedIn.

Featured Stories

• Kentico Keeps a Competitive Edge in the G2 Grid Report for Digital Experience Platforms Summer 2024: “Kentico earned a high customer satisfaction score, with 98% of users giving the DXP 4 or 5-star rating; 94% of customers affirmed that Kentico met their DXP requirements.”

• BlueConic Acquires Experience-creation Company Jebbit: “Together, [BlueConic and Jebbit are] combining our strengths to offer an unmatched range of capabilities that empower our customers to glean deeper insights, take decisive actions and accelerate growth.”

• The 5 Most Anticipated New Features In Strapi 5: “We recently released Strapi 5 "release candidate" of our headless CMS.  It is available here. You can try it now, allowing you to explore all its new features before release and provide feedback.”

• Hygraph and Imgix Are Excited to Officially Announce Their Partnership: “We are happy to announce our new partnership with imgix, a leading visual media platform that businesses choose to provide faster web pages, creative freedom and simpler development.”

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Stories that caught our eye

1. Driving Innovation With AI Across the MACH Ecosystem: A new report from VML and the MACH Alliance. 

2. Pushing Personalization with Modular Content: A way to streamline marketing efforts. 

3. Headless CMSs a Step Backward?: An argument that the advent of the headless CMS actually set content management back a few years.

The word on the street…

1. [LinkedIn]: FUD surrounds the universal CMS concept?: dotCMS VP of Product Preston So believes the concept has struck a chord in the industry.

2. [LinkedIn]: Universal CMS is nothing more than empty marketing jargon: Michael Andrews argues that it's impossible for one CMS to cater to every organization’s unique needs.