Armonk, N.Y. - 03 Oct 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of Xtify Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based mobile messaging tools that help organizations improve mobile sales, drive in-store traffic and engage customers with personalized offers. Financial terms are not being disclosed.
Xtify provides digital marketers with the ability to create content-rich in-app mobile messaging and push notifications to encourage mobile application usage. Mobile applications can increase in-store traffic, improve mobile sales while fostering brand loyalty. (Credit: Xtify Inc.)
The acquisition will help extend IBM's mobile capabilities to digital marketers across all industries ranging from retail to citizen engagement in the public sector through cloud-based services.
Xtify will expand IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative providing campaign creation, personalized content, dynamic real-time segmentation and analytics for all mobile devices and browsers. The technology is designed to help companies engage, convert and retain mobile application users and site visitors. Xtify's cloud-based campaign management platform notifies mobile consumers when new content and promotions are available helping businesses deepen connections with their customers.
Mobile communication channels are completely transforming the way that organizations interact with their customers. Consumers expect personalized messages and promotional offers based on expressed interests and shopping and browsing habits. Together, Xtify and IBM will provide marketers with a new opportunity for client engagement anytime, anywhere, as consumers traverse across multiple digital channels browsing in stores, shopping on mobile web sites or other online channels.
As a result, technology research firm Gartner predicts that worldwide mobile payment transaction values will reach $235.4 billion in 2013, a 44 percent increase from 2012. These increases will continue at a 35 percent annual growth rate to a $721 billion market with 450 million users by 2017.*
Additionally, a new IBM Institute for Business Value study released today confirms that leading organizations have seen clear benefits in their mobile investments to date: 73 percent have experienced measurable results from their mobile initiatives versus 34 percent of all other companies in the study. Further, 81 percent stated that mobile capabilities are fundamentally changing the way their organizations do business.
The combination of digital analytics and mobile capabilities delivered through a cloud computing model has become the great enabler for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and their organizations, giving them easy access to the tools they need to engage mobile consumers. Sephora, Disney Stores, The Tribune Group and 20th Century Fox among other clients are using Xtify's push notifications delivered via mobile apps or sites to increase sales opportunities while fostering brand loyalty.
The premise is simple: mobile content and promotional offers are far more useful when delivered directly to consumers at the right time. Relevant and actionable offers are key to mobile marketing success, said Xtify CEO Josh Rochlin. Xtify's mobile messaging capability combined with IBM's analytics and cloud infrastructure will provide marketers with global reach and an arsenal of rich content to influence and inform increasingly mobile consumers.
Xtify is among the most recent investments that IBM plans to run on its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure that operates in 140 countries. IBM has invested more than $6 billion in cloud-related acquisitions, including SoftLayer, which provides an easy cloud on-ramp to help clients quickly deploy mobile capabilities with the security, privacy and reliability of private clouds and the economy, flexibility and speed of a public cloud.
With the increase of mobile devices, organizations across all industries are anxious to develop a mobile approach to engage their customers, said Kevin Bishop, IBM vice president for digital marketing. The acquisition of Xtify provides new ways for our clients to foster a direct, one-to-one communication channel with their customers.
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For more information about IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative, please visitwww.ibm.com/smartercommerce.
To learn more about IBM MobileFirst solutions visit the press kit orhttp://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst. Follow @ibmmobile on Twitter, and see IBM MobileFirst onYouTube, Tumblr and Instagram.
*Gartner, Forecast: Mobile Payment, Worldwide, 2013 Update, Sandy Shen, May 15, 2013.
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Armonk, N.Y. - 03 Oct 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of Xtify Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based mobile messaging tools that help organizations improve mobile sales, drive in-store traffic and engage customers with personalized offers. Financial terms are not being disclosed.
