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Adobe, SapientNitro Expand Partnership

SapientNitroAdobe and SapientNitro, Sapient’s interactive marketing, creative design, and technology services agency, have signed an expansion of their global partnership.

Alan Herrick (President and CEO, Sapient):  In today’s always-on world, digital marketing platforms are a critical piece of our clients’ customer engagement strategies to ensure their brand stories are made more relevant and pervasive across an ever-changing landscape.

The two companies are extending their partnership to to include integration of the Sapient EngagedNow platform with Adobe Marketing Cloud. Customers will have access to hosted and managed services for Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions from SapientNitro with EngagedNow, flexibility to use Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions via SapientNitro’s usage-based operating model, and ready-to-use integrations built for key verticals, among other things. 

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