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dotCMS 2024 Year-in-Review: Reflections of CEO Zain Ishaq

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Dive into the highlights of dotCMS’ remarkable 2024 journey with our annual Year-in-Review. Explore the milestones, successes, and exciting moments that shaped our year, showcasing innovation, growth, and the power of partnerships that set the stage for 2025.

MIAMI, Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — 2024 was a year of uncertainties – persistent inflation, tech layoffs, two devastating wars, one bitterly fought election, euphoric public markets, stagnant private markets, and tight corporate budgets. The year, however, may still be characterized as the year when content creation proliferated. In the age of AI, our mission to “build trust through content” and our vision to “help global enterprises simplify the creation, management, and delivery of content” seem more critical than ever. And I’m proud of my team at dotCMS, who, despite the surrounding uncertainty, showed purpose and resilience in making great strides towards our mission.

In 2024, dotCMS shipped 142 releases, a whopping 230% year-over-year increase and a testament to our focus on providing our customers with a full-featured, Universal Content Management System.

In 2024, we shipped 142 releases, a whopping 230% year-over-year increase and a testament to our focus on providing a full-featured, Universal Content Management System to our customers. We’re empowering content teams to create, unify, and scale content, build digital experiences visually, and reach a global audience across multiple channels, locations, and languages while ensuring brand consistency. And developers have always loved building on dotCMS because of its flexibility, advanced tooling for modern framework ecosystems, and integrations. We have also renewed our focus on improving the DevOps experience by providing rapid deployment to any cloud infrastructure, simpler upgrade paths, and top-tier security.

Innovating Universal Content Management System:

In 2024, we released the Universal Visual Editor (UVE) in our long-term supported version dotCMS 24.04.24 LTS. The UVE, which enables seamless, in-context editing for both traditional and headless environments, is the foundational feature of our vision of Universal CMS. It combines Edit Mode and Edit Mode Anywhere, offering a unified interface with features like drag-and-drop content palettes, device previews, and rule-based layout design. Content teams now enjoy greater flexibility, whether managing local instances or remote front-ends, enhancing efficiency across workflows.

In August, we hosted our inaugural Universal CMS Summit in Montréal, bringing together industry leaders, customers, and partners for a dynamic exploration of content management’s future. The event featured inspiring keynotes, expert-led panels, and interactive sessions that dove deep into multi-tenant capabilities, AI-driven workflows, and innovations shaping the CMS landscape. It was a true celebration of collaboration, learning, and the vibrant community driving all of us forward.

We also integrated advanced AI capabilities through dotAI, empowering content creators to generate text and images directly within the platform. This feature enhances productivity by leveraging AI for content generation, semantic search, SEO optimization, and auto-tagging. dotAI also enables auto-categorization of content and metadata, simplifying content management workflows. Its integration with the Block Editor ensures a seamless experience for generating and enhancing content, while AI-powered tools like summarization and keyword recommendations help teams work smarter and faster.

To support our technical users, we introduced the dotCMS Command Line Interface (dotCLI), a powerful tool for managing instances, synchronizing files, and automating workflows through the command line. dotCLI simplifies repetitive tasks like deployments and ensures seamless configuration across environments. Additionally, the release of our JavaScript SDK empowers front-end developers to interact securely with dotCMS instances, enabling streamlined development of components, API interactions, and dynamic integrations for headless applications. These tools significantly reduce manual effort and improve developer efficiency.

Significant progress was made in rolling out dotEvergreen – a reimagination of the way we build, test, deploy, and operate dotCMS Cloud. In 2024, we delivered new capabilities to customers who passed a thorough quality and reliability test. Our goal with this approach is to completely eliminate the need for cumbersome annual upgrades, simplify infrastructure, and ensure seamless access to the latest features without compromising stability. Currently, over 13% of our dotCMS Cloud customers are already benefiting from dotEvergreen, and by 2025, our goal is to make it the most widely adopted version among our customers.

At dotCMS, security remains a top priority, and 2024 has been a year of continued excellence on this front. We successfully maintained our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to rigorous global standards for information security. Additionally, we achieved TX-RAMP Level 2 certification, strengthening our ability to provide secure solutions for state agencies and organizations. We also renewed our SOC 2 Type II compliance, ensuring robust safeguards to protect customer data and maintain transparency in our security processes.

A Year of Growth and Community-building:

As we continue to grow as a company, our identity also continues to mature. To showcase our brand identity, we launched a sleek new website entirely on dotCMS. It’s a bold reflection of who we are: innovative, fast-moving, and a little whimsical. Our clean design – balancing white space with vibrant colors – speaks to our future-focused vision and playful spirit, where simplicity meets creativity. Just like our platform, we believe in flexibility, efficiency, and having fun while delivering exceptional results.

Our community has grown significantly, with the onboarding of a diverse range of new clients across industries, further expanding our global user base. One standout partnership this year was with World Travel Holdings, who are migrating over 5,000 websites to a single dotCMS instance. This ambitious project has pushed our product and customer experience teams to deliver a cutting-edge solution, underscoring dotCMS’ unmatched multisite capabilities.

At dotCMS, one of our core values is customer obsession, and true to that, our commitment to customer success has been unwavering. Our Customer Experience team delivered another year of industry-leading gross and net retention numbers, a 4.8/5 Customer Satisfaction score (CSAT), and an impressive 98.6% adherence to support SLAs. I’m incredibly proud of our team for consistently raising the bar and creating remarkable outcomes for our customers.

In November, we hosted our very first virtual dotConnect24. The two-day event brought together marketing, technology, content, web, and developer professionals. It provided incredible insights on topics such as the future of AI, modern content strategies, and innovations shaping digital experience. We’re thrilled with the success of dotConnect24 and are already looking forward to making dotConnect25 even bigger and better next year!

We wanted to discuss how brands build trust in an era of AI, misinformation, and constant distraction – so we launched Real Talk, Real Trust. The brand-new podcast shares real stories, challenges, and actionable strategies for fostering authentic customer relationships powered by technology and innovation. We are thankful to the leaders such as Tom Wentworth, CMO at Recorded Future, Eric Williamson, CMO at CallMiner, and Kevin Cochran, CMO at Vultr, who have joined us so far, and we look forward to having other leaders join us in 2025.

But more than anything else, we are thrilled by the addition of world-class innovators and leaders to our growing team. Preston So joined as Vice President of Product, bringing decades of experience to scale our product strategy, design, and developer relations. Inna Bosenko stepped in as Vice President of Marketing to lead growth and brand development, while Ryan Picchini took on the role of Vice President of Channels and GTM Strategy, strengthening partnerships and go-to-market success. Rounding out the team, Maria Fernandez Trevino joined as Head of User Experience, and Marc Boutillette as Director of Outbound Product Management to elevate user design and field enablement efforts.

Looking Ahead:

As a year marked with uncertainty draws to a close, I am feeling quite optimistic about the tide turning in 2025. We may have avoided a global conflict, and the FED may have achieved a soft landing after all. The election seems to have gone the way of the side screaming efficiency and innovation. And as our customers are preparing to embark on their own journeys of AI adoption, there is no doubt in my mind that 2025 will be a year of innovation like no other.

And at dotCMS, we feel like we’re ready for the occasion. Our roadmap includes key innovations such as: universal editability, enabling seamless content editing across any channel or destination; universal developability, empowering developers to work with any framework, stack, or technology; AI-driven innovation, including generative AI features like content creation, code generation, and AI-powered copilots; and platform enhancements, simplifying infrastructure management and upgrade paths and improving DevOps experience. These advancements will deliver cutting-edge solutions that drive efficiency, flexibility, and value for both content teams and developers.

As I write this, the sun is setting on 2024 in Miami Beach, and I’m feeling deeply blessed to be surrounded by a dedicated, passionate, and innovative community. The collaboration and support among the dotCMS team, our customers, and our partners is truly unique and it gives me great confidence that this community will continue to thrive for many years to come. Here’s to another year of helping each other build trust through content!

Zain Ishaq
CEO, dotCMS

About dotCMS:

dotCMS is a content management system that helps global enterprises with multiple brands, subsidiaries, and franchises manage, optimize, and scale content across languages and channels. Brands such as Dairy Queen, Newell, Firstmac, Telus, and Comcast have chosen dotCMS for its unique ability to manage thousands of sites and consolidate multiple CMSs onto a single, unified instance of dotCMS to streamline content management across teams while saving money on platform costs.

dotCMS’ universal approach to content management also means that companies have the choice to deliver content traditionally or headlessly. Headless developers can work within the front-end framework of choice while still providing marketers with visual editing tools so they can go to market with their business-critical content and decrease their dependency on technical teams.

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Bank Alfalah Acquires Strategic Stake in UAE Fintech Jingle Pay

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DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bank Alfalah, a leading commercial bank in Pakistan with a network of over 1,000 branches, has announced its acquisition of a 9.9% equity stake in Jingle Pay, one of the fastest growing fintechs in the MENAP region. The Bank’s fintech investment underscores its commitment to driving digital transformation and fostering financial inclusion across key markets.

Jingle Pay has redefined the fintech space with its proprietary AI-powered tech stack already processing over 2 million transactions and facilitating over $1 billion in international money transfers in 2024, saving customers over $6 million in fees. Jingle Pay was recently awarded the top global fintech for remittances into Pakistan.

Jingle Pay has solidified its position as a high-growth fintech leader in the MENAP region, supported by prestigious investors, including MoneyGram, G42-backed Applied AI, and prominent U.S. venture capital firms known for backing global fintech giants like N26 and PayPal, Jingle Pay continues to disrupt the industry. Bank Alfalah’s equity investment and appointment to Jingle Pay’s Board signal a robust partnership aimed at driving growth and innovation. This collaboration leverages Bank Alfalah’s extensive infrastructure to amplify Jingle Pay’s impact on cross-border payments and digital banking, advancing its ambitious vision for the MENAP region.

Jingle Pay provides innovative services, including multi-currency accounts, instant money transfers via the world’s first remittance marketplace, card payments, and last-mile payouts across 150+ corridors in 99+ currencies. Additionally, its Remittance-as-a-Service solution enables banks, FinTech’s, and non-financial institutions to facilitate seamless international money transfers.

Jingle Pay plans to launch its digital banking services in Pakistan in Q1 2025 as a branchless banking mobile app targeting to bring seamless and inclusive financial services to the country’s largely unbanked population. Jingle Pay will leverage Bank Alfalah’s infrastructure to bring seamless banking solutions to millions of customers. The partnership will create synergies in cross-border payments strengthened by shareholder MoneyGram.

As Pakistan’s 5th largest remittance partner, Jingle Pay plays a crucial role in driving global financial flows that contribute significantly to the country’s GDP. Establishing local presence in Pakistan will strengthen its partnership and cross-border capabilities, further cementing Jingle Pay’s position as a leader in the remittance ecosystem.

Leadership Remarks

Farooq A. Khan, Group Head – Corporate, Investment Banking and International Business of Bank Alfalah, emphasized: “This acquisition is a milestone in our journey to lead the digital banking revolution. By combining Jingle Pay’s innovative platform with Bank Alfalah’s resources, we aim to redefine cross-border financial services and deliver exceptional value to millions of users.”

Amir Fardghassemi, Founder and CEO of Jingle Pay, said: “Partnering with Bank Alfalah empowers us to scale our vision of inclusive finance. Together, we aim to enrich the digital economy and create transformative cross-border financial solutions.”

The collaboration also enhances Bank Alfalah’s role in the global Payments ecosystem, strengthening its position as a leader in cross-border financial flows and delivering unparalleled value to customers in the MENAP and beyond.

About Bank Alfalah

Bank Alfalah is a leading commercial bank in Pakistan, with over 1,000 branches across 200 cities and an international presence in the UAE, Bahrain, and Afghanistan. Its heritage and prominence extend over 25 successful years, highlighted by achievements that reflect exponential growth in the country’s financial sector.

The Bank offers various products and services to private-sector institutions and governments, including corporate and investment banking, consumer banking, securities brokerage, commercial, small and medium enterprises, agricultural, Islamic, and asset financing.

The Bank has established itself as a premier digital bank by introducing various features on its banking app, such as Alfamall, Buy Now Pay Later, and Term Deposit Receipts. It has also launched Pakistan’s first digital lifestyle branch. 

About Jingle Pay

Jingle Pay, a UAE born fintech, is the MENAP region’s leading and fastest-growing fintech, specializing in cross-border money transfers licensed by Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). Jingle Pay operates in the UAE, Bahrain, and Pakistan, offering cutting-edge financial services. Backed by global financial institutions like MoneyGram, Bank Alfalah, top-tier U.S. and international venture capital firms that have backed PayPal and N26, as well as G42 backed, Applied AI.

The company provides a wide array of solutions, including Remittance-as-a-Service for financial institutions, enabling seamless global payouts across 150+ corridors and 99+ currencies. Additionally, Jingle Pay operates a B2C app for retail customers, facilitating card payments and international money transfers focused on driving financial inclusion and leveraging AI to redefine cross border payments.

CONTACT: Jingle Pay, Media@jinglepay.com, +971 4 547 7778

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Better Business Bureau Serving the Tri-Counties Warns Homeowners About Donation Scams Following Southern California Fires

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BBB Offers Recommendations for Donating to Southern California Wildfire Requests, Warning to Beware of Click-Bait and Phishing Scams, Bogus Crowdfunding Requests

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Better Business Bureau Serving the Tri-Counties issues warning to businesses and consumers tied to donation scams following Southern California Fires. As reported, strong winds fueling a fast-moving fire in Southern California has caused more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes. For those seeking to help those in need, BBB Wise Giving Alliance offers the following tips to give thoughtfully.

For those seeking to help those in need, BBB Wise Giving Alliance offers the following tips to give thoughtfully.

Tips for Donating to Southern California Wildfire Relief Efforts

Make Sure the Charity Is Trustworthy: Before giving, search for the charity’s report on Give.org to find out if the charity meets the BBB Standards for Charity Accountability (i.e., a BBB Accredited Charity). While disaster fundraising has not yet fully emerged for this tragedy, donors might check with the following BBB Accredited Charities to help start their selection of organizations offering help: American Red Cross, Direct Relief, GlobalGiving and Salvation Army.

Look for Specific Fire Relief Activities in Appeals: Be wary of relief appeals that have vague program descriptions and do not explain what activities your support will assist.

Watch Out for Click-Bait and Phishing Scams: Online giving scams tend to pop up after a disaster to take advantage of public sympathy. Don’t click on email, text, or social media links promising to connect you to a familiar charity. Instead, go directly to the charity’s website on your own.

Review Crowdfunding Requests: Some crowdfunding sites take precautions in carefully screening, vetting, and managing postings after a disaster or tragedy. Others might not. If unsure, review the procedures described on the site and also find out about transaction fees and other specifics.

Verify Charity Registration: About 40 of the 50 states require charities to annually register. Check with your state’s office of the attorney general or secretary of state’s office.

Understand the Phases of Disaster Relief: Most disasters go through three periods of activity: rescue, relief, and recovery. Each phase involves different activities and support. You can familiarize yourself with each phase on our Supporting Disaster Relief and Preparedness page.

Better Business Bureau Serving the Tri-Counties intends for this advice to help donors to give with confidence while avoiding questionable efforts.

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To report a scam, go to BBB Scam Tracker.
To learn how to protect yourself, go to “10 Steps to Avoid Scams.”

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Pollo AI Launches Consistent Character Video to Maintain Consistency of Characters, Objects, or Scenes in Generated Videos

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SINGAPORE, Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pollo AI  continues to raise the bar in AI video generation with the addition of its latest feature: Consistent Character Video, which can transform still images into high quality AI videos, while maintaining consistency of characters, objects, or scenes throughout every frame.

Users can upload one or up to three images of a subject to the tool – it could be a person’s face, for example, or image(s) of an inanimate object, like an appliance or piece of clothing, or image(s) of specific scenes. The AI video generator will then use the image(s) as the reference point(s) when generating its video content, ensuring that the original visuals are accurately and consistently portrayed.

This way, users can make multiple videos while keeping the same consistent subjects. They can make themselves the star of numerous clips, for example, or incorporate real-life items into their video creations. While other elements of the videos may change, the core subjects you choose will always remain consistent.

The uses for this are numerous. Brands, for example, could upload images of their latest products and then make various AI-generated videos featuring those products in a range of settings and scenarios. Or creators could make entire feature-length films by generating multiple short-form AI videos with the same consistent subjects in different scenes.

You could even upload an image of a famous landmark or monument, and instruct the tool to use that throughout your video creations. This makes it so much easier to create sequences or series of videos with the same consistent background, environment, or setting – a feat that many AI video generators have historically struggled with.

It’s a huge leap forward for AI video technology. Before the Consistent Character Video Generator, many users had expressed frustration when it came to trying to keep the same characters and subjects in multiple AI-generated videos. But with this new tool, that challenge has been solved.

What’s more, the Consistent Character Video Generator is backed up by Pollo AI’s advanced algorithms and powerful technology. Thanks to that, it’s able to make some of the most visually impressive AI videos, with cinematic levels of quality, fluid motion, realistic physics, and other desirable characteristics.

Plus, just like other AI videos generated with Pollo AI, the user has total control over various aspects, such as the aspect ratio, the length of the video, the resolution, and the camera movement. With this bold new addition, Pollo AI continues to assert itself as one of the leading and most innovative names in the AI video sphere.

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