CIO Bulletin
WP Engine was founded in 2010. It is a platform that leverages over 30 open-source technologies to deliver innovation at a faster pace than those built on closed, proprietary systems. The WP Engine platform equips people with a suite of site building and management tools to drive more creative agility; cloud hosting and security solutions to enable enterprise performance; and optimization tools to give you ongoing intelligence. Together with the WordPress REST API, other APIs, and a range of tech partner integration solutions, WP Engine sets you up to create any type of WordPress digital experience—your way—to drive your business forward faster.
“We are grateful for the role we play in our clients’ lives and businesses. We want to earn and re-earn their trust every day,” said Heather Brunner, Chairwoman and CEO of WP Engine. The company partners with Google, AWS, and New Relic, and optimizes their technology specifically for WordPress.
WP Engine is a new breed of Technology Company that is at the intersection of software innovation and service. Its platform provides brands the solutions they need to create remarkable sites and apps on WordPress that drive their business forward faster. All this is driven by a set of core values that guides the company every day. “WP Engine knows how to optimize for WordPress and it shows every day!” said Brad Williams, CEO and Co-founder of WebDev Studios.
WordPress Experts at Your Service
Digital experiences aren’t remarkable if your site has performance issues or you’re up against a deadline and encounter a problem you just can’t solve. When you need help, support is everything. WP Engine’s trusted experts act as an extension of your business and are committed to your success.
WP Engine’s competence is such that today it is the only customer service team in the industry to win both international and national recognition for excellence in supporting its customers, multiple times through a fantastic 12 Stevie Awards.
With three global support locations providing service around the clock to its 120K+ customers in 150+ countries, WP Engine delivers expert help at the scale clients expect from the leading WordPress digital experience platform.
“WP Engine’s platform provides us with significant performance gains, but more importantly, our WP Engine team has been an amazing partner for Microsoft. This allows our teams to focus more on our core functions, without the worry of scale, security, or performance,” said Brian Costea, Sr Group Manager, Web Operations, Microsoft.
With open source code, multilingual, multi-site management tools, user rights and workflow controls WordPress gives marketers and developers flexibility and agility when launching campaigns, content, or new sites. Enterprises gravitate to WordPress for its open source flexibility that simplifies customization and integrations, while avoiding software lock-in. With a vast solution ecosystem, many options exist for a Martech stack including plugins for DAM, CRO, Personalization and more. WP Engine partners with best-in-class technology providers and makes curated recommendations for customers.
WP Engine provides best-in-class infrastructure options that it optimizes for WordPress. Clients can enjoy built-in scalability and redundant architecture solutions with WP Engine’s 99.99% uptime SLA.
From build to launch, WP Engine helps developers at every stage of a client’s projects with a suite of powerful development, design and site management tools to build in a particular way.
Enhance Your Enterprise Performance
Whether you’re shuffling a couple thousand visitors a day through an eCommerce shopping experience or attracting millions of visitors to content per day, the digital experience must be available and load fast to engage and wow the audiences. WP Engine’s cloud-based solutions can give websites high availability, speed, scalability, and security, so a business can press ahead with confidence.
WP Engine partners with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform to build digital experiences on the same industry-leading architecture those companies use to power their own digital experiences. Global data centers and cloud coverage empower businesses with the confidence that their website is available and loading fast no matter where the visitors are in the world.
WP Engine also helps businesses to stay competitive in an international marketplace, as businesses cannot compromise site speed, especially during a traffic spike. With the proprietary caching system, fully-managed global content delivery network, and scalable architecture all optimized for WordPress, WP Engine’s customers know they can trust them for speed.
Working with Avvio
Founded in 2002, Avvio develops cutting-edge technologies that enable hotels to drive outstanding growth in direct website bookings, while reducing dependency on online travel agents (OTA’s.). In 2017 Avvio launched Allora.ai; the world’s first booking platform powered by artificial intelligence.
But the company wanted to build high-performing, mobile-responsive, SEO-ready websites that convert at scale. With summertime bookings skyrocketing in anticipation of Covid’s retreat, Avvio was relied upon more than ever as the leading booking technology provider for hotels and the best way to deliver personalized booking experiences for individual guests.
“We specialize in building great-looking, high-performing hotel websites that bring users from search into that direct channel,” said Ian Sloan, Vice President of Digital, Avvio. “While our teams provide the needed expertise on the front end, we can only deliver the full scope of our digital experiences with the best WordPress hosting platform in the world.”
The solution came in the form of Avvio’s digital marketing expertise, its team of UX design pros, and the speed, security, and support of WP Engine’s managed WordPress platform.
And the results were great. Meeting a booming market trend head-on; Avvio works with a rapidly-growing list of more than 500 hotels, driving nearly half a billion Euro in annual revenue. With WP Engine managing performance, WordPress updates, and security & compliance related to GDPR, Avvio’s “Web Delivery” team is focused on building beautiful websites that optimize the booking experience for every hotel and the guests they serve. “Avvio can do so confidently with WP Engine at its back,” concluded Sloan.
The Leader Upfront
Heather Brunner, Chairwoman and CEO
As Chairwoman and CEO for WP Engine, Heather Brunner has steered the company to hyper-growth and global expansion with offices in Austin, San Antonio, San Francisco, London, Limerick and Brisbane serving 75,000 customers in 130 countries. A 27-year technology veteran, Heather helped create billions in value and drove customer success and business strategy for companies including Bazaarvoice, Coremetrics, Trilogy, Oracle and Accenture. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Trinity University. Heather received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Central Texas Award for Technology. She serves on the Board of Directors for Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT), Localeur LLC and the Entrepreneurs Foundation.
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