Pegasystems and Idio Partner to Infuse AI-Driven Next-Best Content Across B2B Customer Journeys

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems, (NASDAQ: PEGA), a leader in customer engagement software, and Idio, a demand orchestration platform for B2B marketing, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable business-to-business (B2B) organizations to present the most relevant content that accelerates customer buying journeys. By combining the power of Pega's AI-driven real-time customer decisioning platform and Idio's content intelligence engine, businesses can quickly close more B2B deals by serving up the right contextual content in the moment, on any channel.

B2B organizations driving account-based marketing (ABM) strategies struggle to provide the personalization that business-to-consumer (B2C) buyers now expect. These more complex sales cycles require high-touch nurturing over longer periods of time across a matrix of decision makers. But hindered with marketing, sales, and service silos, most organizations can't adapt fast enough to meet each stakeholder's changing needs. This causes missed opportunities to serve timely content that could accelerate account engagement and progress a deal.

Together, Pega and Idio will optimize B2B engagements in real time to provide customers with the next-best content. With centralized AI at the heart of every decision, businesses will be able to analyze all past customer interactions to identify and deliver the most valuable and timely materials ? including product specification, case studies, or prospectuses. This collaboration will ensure better B2B customer experiences that intelligently move each account and individual to the next stage in their journey, rather than force offers and discounts better suited for B2C strategies.

Available in June and on display at the PegaWorld conference from June 3-5 in Las Vegas, the new offering will provide organizations the ability to:

• Improve Marketing Journeys ? Marketers can intelligently move prospects closer to purchase by using the solution to surface and deliver the most relevant content designed to progress road-blocked buyers in real time.
• Optimize Sales Interactions ? Salespeople can spend their time more effectively and efficiently by leveraging AI-powered recommendations to share the most relevant content with high-value accounts most likely to convert.
• Centralize B2B Customer Intelligence ? Organizations can engage with B2B companies on a holistic level by leveraging a single decisioning process across channels and business functions with consolidated individual-level and account interaction data.

Pega provides a unified suite of customer engagement applications for marketing, sales, and customer service powered by Pega® Customer Decision Hub, its market-leading real-time AI engine. Built on Pega® Platform, Pega's applications enable clients to constantly anticipate customers' changing needs and provide personalized AI-driven next-best-action recommendations throughout the customer journey. By engaging customers one-to-one on any channel, Pega clients increase customer satisfaction while enhancing customer lifetime value.

Idio's pioneering AI takes advantage of the exploding goldmine of 'dark data' ? unstructured and underutilized digital interaction data ? to provide highly predictive customer intelligence that increases target account engagement. Trained using billions of customer interactions across multiple markets and languages, Idio leverages advanced machine learning and natural language processing to predict every prospect's intent and provide next-best content recommendations.

"This partnership allows us to further optimize highly complex B2B engagements where most other marketing and sales solutions typically fall short," said Dr. Rob Walker, vice president, decision management, Pegasystems. "Idio's unique predictive content intelligence engine complements our proven customer engagement solutions to better help B2B organizations keep pace with their customers' needs with the right content at the right moment."

"We greatly respect Pega's innovative solutions that power exceptional customer experiences for some of the largest clients in the world," said Idio CEO Edward Barrow. "Our approaches to predictive decisioning are very similar, and we look forward to bringing our experience of automating and personalizing complex B2B decision cycles to Pega's global 3000 customers."

For more information on this partnership, visit www.pega.com/products/crm-applications/marketing/idio-integration or www.idioplatform.com/pega-idio-partnership/ .

About Pega
Pegasystems Inc. is the leader in software for customer engagement and operational excellence. Pega's adaptive, cloud-architected software ? built on its unified Pega® Platform ? empowers people to rapidly deploy and easily extend and change applications to meet strategic business needs. Over its 30-year history, Pega has delivered award-winning capabilities in CRM and BPM, powered by advanced artificial intelligence and robotic automation, to help the world's leading brands achieve breakthrough business results. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA) visit http://www.pega.com

About Idio
Idio makes buyer-centric marketing possible for global B2B enterprises. Idio's Demand Orchestration platform uses Content Intelligence to predict the interests of every individual and automatically deliver relevant 1:1 experiences across digital channels. Global leaders including Intel, Fitch Ratings, and AllianceBernstein trust Idio's AI to maximize buyer engagement and pipeline, whilst handling marketing complexity. Idio is based in London and New York, backed by leading SaaS investors including Notion Capital, Juno Capital, and Foresight Group, and in 2017 was named by Forrester Research as a Breakout Vendor. For more information please see http://www.idio.ai

Press contacts:
Sean Audet
Pegasystems Inc.
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(617) 528-5230
Twitter: @pega

Andrew Davies
Idio
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(646) 237-5207
Twitter: @idioplatform

SOURCE Pegasystems Inc.