headquarters copenhagen denmark key people michael seifert ceo products sitecore experience platform website https www.sitecore.net sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides web content management and multichannel marketing automation software . the company was founded in 2001 . contents 1 company history 2 acquisitions 3 awards and recognition 4 references 5 external links company history edit in 1998 in copenhagen denmark university of copenhagen alumni thomas albert jakob christensen peter christensen ole sas thrane and current sitecore ceo michael seifert cofounded pentia a s a systems integration company that focused on implementing websites built on microsoft technologies . 1 at the time building and managing websites required the expertise of a programmer or developer . ole sas thrane and jakob christensen devised a set of methods for automating those processes and decided to turn their invention 2 into a marketable product that would today be classified as a web content management system . in 2001 sitecore was spun off as a separate business entity that initially sold content management systems in the danish market to it departments . however the company has grown into a global provider of customer experience management software targeted primarily to corporate marketing departments and marketing service providers . 3 michael seifert has been the company s ceo since its founding in 2001 . his method for collecting human experience analytics data was awarded us patent 8 255 526 in august 2012 . 4 in the latter part of 2015 a portion of sitecore s operations moved to marina plaza in sausalito california . sitecore is currently on version 8.1 which was initially released in december 2015 . 5 acquisitions edit 2014 july 8 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 . 6 2013 november 20 sitecore acquired the assets of commerceserver.net for an undisclosed sum from smith formerly ascentium and took responsibility and ownership for developing marketing and selling commerce server a former microsoft product 7 sitecore announced an early access program for its sitecore commerce product on august 5 2014 . 2011 july 5 sitecore acquired the development team and the intellectual property of pectora provider of web publishing solutions for deep integration with print based projects . 8 awards and recognition edit 2015 forrester research s forrester wave for web content management systems leader 9 2014 forrester research s forrester wave for digital experience delivery platforms strong performer 10 2014 gartner inc s magic quadrant for multichannel campaign management visionary 11 2014 microsoft alliance isv partner of the year 12 2014 kmworld 100 companies that matter in knowledge management 13 2013 forrester research s forrester wave for web content management for digital customer experience leader 14 2013 gartner inc s magic quadrant for web content management leader 15 2013 microsoft enterprise isv of the year 16 2013 econtent magazine s top 100 companies in the digital content industry 17 2013 cms critic s people s choice award winner and critic s choice award winner for best enterprise cms 18 references edit pentia about us . retrieved 2014 09 08 . thrane and christensen united states patent 7 856 345 method for building and managing a web site december 2010 sitecore triples size in sausalito move . north bay business journal . 2014 08 04 . seifert and christensen united states patent 8 255 526 a method for collecting human experience analytics data august 2012 sitecore technical debt . sagittarius.agency . retrieved 2016 07 11 . social media marketing from sitecore . km world . july 14 2014 . retrieved 4 september 2014 . sitecore acquires commerceserver.net to extend . net cxm play . gartner inc. november 27 2013 . retrieved 4 september 2014 . sitecore adds print media to customer engagement platform via acquisition . cms wire . july 5 2011 . retrieved 4 september 2014 . the forrester wave web content management systems q1 2015 . forrester research inc. 4 february 2015 . the forrester wave digital experience delivery platforms q3 2014 . forrester research . 22 july 2014 . magic quadrant for multichannel campaign management . gartner inc. 21 may 2014 . congratulations 2014 wpc partner of the year award winners and finalists . retrieved 2014 09 08 . kmworld 100 companies that matter in knowledge management . 2014 03 01 . retrieved 2013 11 15 . the forrester wave web content management for digital customer experience q2 2013 . gartner inc. 8 april 2013 . gartner mq for web content management 2013 . retrieved 2013 11 15 . microsoft announces winners and finalists of 2013 sales achievement program . 2014 07 30 . retrieved 2014 09 08 . the top 100 companies in the digital content industry the 2013 2014 econtent 100 . 2013 12 02 . retrieved 2014 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