dotmailer's Product Innovation and Expansion Built on Microsoft Azure

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - September 06, 2016) - dotmailer, a leading email and cross-channel marketing automation platform, today announced its plans to use Microsoft Azure, helping dotmailer scale in different regions of the world while reinforcing its continued focus to bring reliable, fast, and efficient technology to marketers.

dotmailer's email and marketing automation Software-as a-Service (SaaS) platform continues to add intuitive product features that help marketers dramatically improve their businesses. In addition to its headquarters in the U.K., the company has added new office locations this year, including New York City and Melbourne, Australia, and increased its global headcount by around 20 percent. Working with leading technologies like those from Microsoft is helping dotmailer support its growing infrastructure - the company has over 80,000 marketers in more than 130 countries today.

"dotmailer's customer base consists of marketers and merchants that want an easy-to-use yet sophisticated online tool to help them engage their customers more effectively. The global availability of Microsoft Azure means dotmailer customers can leverage a speedier and more stable service," said Steve Shaw, Chief Technology Officer, dotmailer.

"dotmailer's customers benefit from the global scale and high availability of Microsoft Azure," said Andrea Carl, director, commercial communications, Microsoft Corp. "We are pleased to see that dotmailer has committed to Microsoft Azure as it innovates and expands to new regions."

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform with storage, networking, and other services for creating and hosting applications in Microsoft datacenters.

For more information please visit www.dotmailer.com.

About dotdigital Group PLC

dotmailer is the email marketing automation platform of the dotdigital Group PLC (LSE: DOTD). It currently enables more than 80,000 marketers in more than 130 countries around the world to use transactional and behavioral data to design, test and send powerful automated campaigns. Established in 1999, dotmailer is a global company with more than 200 employees and B2C and B2B enterprise and SME clients.

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