Digital experience platform (DXP) vendor Sitecore has appointed Eric Stine as its new Chief Operating Officer. With a mandate of overseeing all customer-facing functions and unlocking business value for customers, Stine is the latest addition to the leadership shakeup that’s been happening at Sitecore over the last few months. 

“We view a tremendous opportunity for our composable DXP to fundamentally transform the way marketing teams create content and digital experiences. As we deliver on our strategy of leveraging AI to innovate across digital content and experiences, Eric will align our customer-facing teams to bring maximum value to our customers and partners globally,” said Sitecore CEO Dave O’Flanagan.

Elsewhere, BigCommerce was named a Leader in IDC MarketScape’s digital commerce vendor assessments. Meanwhile, Storyblok and Hygraph are among the leading headless CMS vendors in several categories in the G2 Summer 2024 Reports.

Featured Stories

• BigCommerce Named a Leader in Both IDC MarketScape Worldwide Headless Digital Commerce Applications for Enterprise and Midmarket Growth: “Our open, flexible platform is designed to be user-friendly for both developers and businesses, provides unparalleled extensibility with seamless integrations, intuitive interfaces and a low-code/no-code front end that simplifies operations without requiring extensive developer support.”

• Storyblok Is the Leading Headless CMS and Momentum Leader for G2’s 2024 Summer Report: “We’re excited to have been awarded over 50 outstanding awards and recognized as the leading CMS and Momentum Leader across all our categories.”

• Hygraph Studio: Now in Early Availability: “We’re excited to launch Studio in Early Availability (EA), and it will eventually become the default interface for managing content in Hygraph.”

• Now Playing: The Latest Mux Video Input Plugin for Sanity: “It’s easy to find content with the integrated, feature-rich media library and complex optimization for page performance is handled by Mux.”

New RFPs From DXP360

• [New] [RFP Value: $30,000] [US] Cold Email Platform Development: A US startups needs help “building a cold-email sending platform to handle over 2M emails daily through 2,000+ Google Workspace and Office365 business accounts.”

• [New] [RFP Value: Undisc.] [EU] School Software and App Replacement: “Merging and simplifying the school applications «School administration», «Teaching» and «Parent communication» used today into a new web based solution (mandatorily responsive Web-Design). Only cloud (SaaS) solutions are permitted.”

• [New] [RFP Value: Undisc.] [UK] Professional Consultancy for Web Design for Local Council: “Professional Consultancy Services Framework (Covering design illustration, branding, marketing social media, photography, e-commerce, web-design, printing and communications)”.

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Stories that caught our eye

1. Hygraph Named Easiest CMS to Implement: Just one of the awards in the G2 Summer 2024 reports. 

2. Freshegg Earns Umbraco Platinum Partner Status:  Recognition for their ability to deliver high quality web solutions using Umbraco CMS. 

3. A New Headless CMS on the Block: FoxNose is designed for efficiency and ease of use. 

4. Kontent.ai Vulnerability Management and Bug Bounty: The headless CMS outlines their approach to security. 

5. [Webinar] [July 31] Enhancing Digital Content Creation: A look at CrafterCMS's Visual Authoring Experience. 

6. [Event][Aug 5]:Universal CMS Summit:dotCMS hosts this event including speakers from Magnolia, Crownpeak, and Hygraph.

The word on the street…

1. [LinkedIn]: The biggest issue facing the CMS industry today?: dotCMS VP of Product Preston So explains it comes to whether the company is a startup or established enterprise. 

2. [Reddit]: Branchable CMS?: This Redditor is looking for a CMS enabling developers to create a branch, create content-types and content and then merge it together like in Git. Any suggestions?