Business Catalyst End of Life Announcement Sends Adobe Agency Partners Scrambling for Options

CAMDEN, Del., March 26, 2018 (Newswire.com) - Adobe will stop hosting existing sites on Business Catalyst on March 26th, 2020. Adobe encourages customers to download their data and migrate to other systems well before March 26th, 2020. Detailed how-to information and assistance is available. Customers' data will be retained by Adobe until March 26th, 2020, after which date the data will be deleted. Data retention is for the sole purpose of allowing customers to export their data and transfer to another platform.

According to Adobe's End of Life announcement posted on their forum, no new trials will be created, no new sites will be upgraded to paid, support will be prioritized for platform migration questions, in addition to critical security, compliance, and availability issues, and all sites will move to monthly billing on their first renewal date after June 18th, 2018.

While one can only admire Adobe's accomplishment, and business success as a software company, anyone can also appreciate the challenging position for marketing agencies and their customers who have placed their trust in the Business Catalyst partner program and marketing platform. As a result, SeoSamba is offering discounted bulk migration pricing to the first twenty-five BC agency partners who decide to migrate their customers over to the SeoSamba framework.

SeoSamba is a very mature site build, sales and marketing automation platform, competitively priced, and with some unique features clients love. SeoSamba’s marketing framework includes a scalable website builder, marketing and sales automation under one roof, and offers a breadth of functionalities, including:

• Open Source CMS
• Open Source Shopping Cart
• Customer Relationship Management with sales automation
• Call tracking
• Automated cloud-based SEO
• Email marketing
• Social marketing
• And more...

SeoSamba is a hybrid platform that interfaces with open source systems, like WordPress and SeoToaster.

A fundamental difference that Adobe Partners will be particularly sensitive to is that SeoSamba interfaces with open sources Content Management Systems, such as WordPress and SeoToaster, thereby greatly reducing platform vendor risks epitomized today with Business Catalyst's EOL announcement.

SeoSamba allows private-label partners to focus on sales instead of implementation to:

• Quickly deliver marketing results with less effort
• Lowering costs and reducing customer churn over time
• Enabling faster production with better marketing results
• Allowing for co-existence of multiple service models, mixing and matching services delivery model at will

Michel Leconte, SeoSamba’s CEO, commented, “We certainly understand how traumatic these kinds of events can be for agencies, and I want to ensure all current Adobe Business Catalysts partners and customers that SeoSamba’s highly competent professional  team will do everything to alleviate that stress and help chart a plan to migrate their current clients over. And thanks to our flexible framework, we’re certainly in position to reproduce any custom development that might be needed. In fact, since some Adobe BC custom functionalities are natively available in SeoSamba’s framework, we expect some of these migrations to be simpler and more cost-effective than what agencies and clients might expect at this point”.

Thanks to SeoSamba’s expanded set of functionalities compared to Adobe Business Catalyst, smart agencies will turn "forced migration" into a sales and customer satisfaction opportunity.

With SeoSamba in their corner, Business Catalyst's agencies in dire need of a replacement solution for the soon-to-be phased out proprietary agency platform will be able to introduce new exciting sales and marketing tools to customers to solidify, and enhance your relationships rather than damage them.

About SeoSamba 

SeoSamba serves thousands of small businesses around the world with service centers in the United States and Europe. Its software is private labeled by large media companies and available in 14 languages.

SeoSamba is available worldwide as a private-label marketing solution and can be customized at will by media and newspaper groups to fit their vision.

SeoSamba’s hybrid, open-source marketing framework is built around the SambaSaaS marketing hub and SeoToaster Ultimate CRM +sales automation cloud edition to build and market landing pages, corporate sites, directories and ecommerce websites. SeoSamba also lets you connect, then centrally market and SEO WordPress websites with a free or premium plugin.

For more information about SeoSamba, visit www.seosamba.com, email us at info@seosamba.com, or call us in the U.S.: + (1) 877.450-9894 or in Europe at + (33) 6756376.

Source: SeoSamba