November 2019 Summaries

The No Wasted Lives Coalition's State of Acute Malnutrition website, managed by Action Against Hunger UK, provides a comprehensive overview of information related to severe and moderate acute malnutrition globally and at country-specific levels. The site offers over 2,700 resources and data indicators in multiple languages, with the goal of tracking progress over time and sharing resources among those working to solve this problem. To achieve this, Action Against Hunger invested in Contentful's flexible content management system (CMS), which has enabled them to easily manage and distribute their resources and data, track updates, and create accounts with different access levels for various roles, making it an invaluable tool in their mission.

When running fast, it's easy to trip — many businesses struggle when success forces them to scale rapidly. Scalability is a vital consideration when purchasing or building infrastructure as foundational systems that can't scale become hurdles instead, resulting in lost momentum and expensive replatforming. Business leaders need to understand the different dimensions of scale to ensure that the infrastructure they choose allows them to run at full speed, encompassing administrative, functional, and load scalability. Choosing platforms that address these varied challenges can help future-proof a business, with extensible solutions being more likely to meet current and future needs. Intercom chose Contentful as its content platform because it could support the company's teams' needs as they scaled their offerings, highlighting the importance of end-to-end thinking about the experience.

Contentful has had a phenomenal year in 2019, surpassing expectations for growth and modernizing how content flows in organizations. The company built powerful features for practitioners, developers, and enterprises, with over 2,000 paying customers and a community of over 400,000 users. Contentful's enterprise revenue more than doubled for the third consecutive year, and the company is likely to overachieve its revenue targets again by the end of the year. To accelerate growth, Contentful plans to expand its team to nearly 300 people across two hubs and consider new office locations. The company has become a fundamental building block for modern digital experiences, powering content for many large organizations, including Urban Outfitters, ALDO Group, Bang & Olufsen, Danone, Intercom, Loblaws, and TELUS. Contentful's leadership team has undergone changes, with the CEO position recently being filled by Steve Sloan, a customer-centric leader with experience at Twilio Sendgrid, Marketo, AWS, and Microsoft. The new CEO aims to bring a perspective on scaling effectively to serve more customers around the world and continue building on the amazing work of the current leadership team.