Sitecore Online Tutorials

In 1998, in Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Copenhagen alumni Thomas Albert, Jakob Christensen, Peter Christensen, Ole Sas Thrane, and Michael Seifert founded Pentia A/S, a systems integration company that focused on implementing websites built on Microsoft technologies. At the time, building and managing websites required the expertise of a programmer or developer. Thrane and Christensen devised and patented a set of procedures for building and managing websites and turned their invention into a content management system product.

In 2001, Sitecore was spun off as a separate business entity that initially sold content management systems in the Danish market. However, the company has grown into a global provider of customer experience management software targeted primarily at corporate marketing departments and marketing service providers.

In July 2011, Sitecore acquired the development team and intellectual property of Pectora, a provider of web publishing solutions for deep integration with print-based projects.

In November 2013, Sitecore acquired the assets of commerceserver.net from Smith (formerly Ascentium) and took responsibility and ownership for developing, marketing, and selling Sitecore Commerce Server, formerly a Microsoft product called Microsoft Commerce Server.

In July 2014, Sitecore acquired a majority stake in Komfo, a Danish social media marketing and community engagement application provider and introduced its social media marketing suite, Sitecore Social.

In October 2018, Sitecore announced the acquisition of Stylelabs, a marketing technologies software vendor, and stated its intent to incorporate Stylelabs' digital asset management, marketing resource management and product information management applications into its Experience Cloud;^[6] the acquisition was completed in November 2018.

In June 2019, Sitecore acquired Hedgehog, a digital consultancy.^[7]

In March 2021, Sitecore acquired Boxever and Four51. Boxever is a SaaS-based Customer Data Platform (CDP) that provides decisioning and experimentation. Four51 is a company delivering modern B2B and B2C experiences for enterprise brands.^[8]

In May 2021, Sitecore acquired Moosend. Moosend is a marketing automation platform.^[9]

In September 2021, Sitecore acquired Reflektion. Reflektion is an AI-powered digital search platform.^[10]