"This by far is the most exciting and significant release of Unica products we’ve seen over the last 10 years. With V12.1, HCL has re-imagined the product line and expanded much-needed capabilities such as Unica Journey, Unica Deliver, and Unica Link, clearly taking into account customer feedback," said Benoît Stephenson-Barriere, President & CEO of Cleargoals.

“The investment HCL Software has made in the Unica platform is impressive. In the V12.0 release earlier this year, they delivered big leaps in functionality, Open Source supported platform, cloud native readiness, and open API support. With this V12.1 release, the Unica Marketing solution becomes a platform that includes Campaign, Interact, Plan, and Optimize and three new offerings in one package with a simplified pricing model. HCL is investing in a proven marketing platform and we expect accelerated cloud release cycles to bring future functionality to market even faster,” said Gerry Murray, Research Director, Marketing and Sales Technology, IDC.

“Allant Group’s MarTech Integration & Enablement Team has long relied upon the Unica platform to enable complex solutions that are easily managed, automated, and executed by marketers—without requiring the need for IT resources.  In addition to expanding their own product APIs, HCL continues to grow Unica's product capabilities for integration by embracing open-source platforms, as well as cloud-hosted databases and marketing solutions.  Delivering on this vision will enable our clients to consolidate data and events generated by today's channel-specific marketing solutions and data platforms.  Allant is tremendously excited about HCL's product roadmap and the additional value it will bring to our mutual customers,” said Scott Bell, Principal, MarTech Integration & Enablement, Allant Group.

“With Unica v12.1, HCL is taking great strides to close the gaps with their enterprise competition, and in many areas improving the long term and existing strengths of the Unica platform as a whole. With Unica Deliver and Unica Journey, they are deploying the functionality that marketers expect to be embedded within the marketing automation platform. We’re also excited about the simplified pricing model, which we hope will make it easier for our clients and partners to leverage a wider suite of capabilities with a reduced commercial and procurement impact,” said Andrew Addison, Founder & CEO of Purple Square.