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Whatfix Announces New Data Centers & DAP Certification Program Launch Amid Exponential Company Growth
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --

  -- The Digital Adoption Leader Achieved 76% YoY Revenue Growth Leading 
     into 2022

Whatfix ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3425161-1&h=103511188&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2F&a=Whatfix 
), the global leader in the digital adoption platforms (DAP) space, today 
announced the launch of its data centers in Europe, based in the cities of 
Frankfurt, Germany and Oslo, Norway, showcasing significant growth in the 
European market. These new data centers will allow Whatfix to further enhance 
customer data protection and significantly improve performance for European 
customers overall. The European market contributes to around 20% of Whatfix's 
revenue.

In addition, Whatfix launched its multi-tiered Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) 
Certification Program, which makes specific trainings available to employees, 
customers, and partners covering topics on how to build, manage, and deploy 
content on Whatfix's DAP. Each of the courses has distinct content, 
supplemental bridge courses, and a comprehensive content library. Around 2,500 
active learners and around 500 certified users are already actively using the 
program today.

"Our success in 2021 shows that Whatfix and our solutions are optimized for an 
era defined by change and uncertainty," said Khadim Batti, CEO and co-founder 
of Whatfix, and gold winner for IT Cloud/SaaS in the CEO World Awards. "With a 
comprehensive brand refresh, and a strengthened product roadmap, we're eager to 
continue our culture of excellence, innovation, and customer-first focus to 
drive more positive outcomes for our stakeholders in 2022."

Highlights include:

Business Growth and Valuation: In 2021, Whatfix achieved 76% revenue growth, 
attributable to both new customer wins as well as expansion of existing 
business. The company increased new business revenue by 85% in 2021 including 
the addition of several new enterprise customers who have deployed Whatfix both 
internally for employees and externally for customers. These include customers 
such as Microsoft, Westland Insurance Group, Allstate Insurance Group, Datacom 
Group, The Netherlands Red Cross, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, Geodis, Telenor, 
Ayr Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, Aggreko, and many others.

The customer-centricity of the company resulted in a best-in-class net revenue 
retention rate (NRR) at 132% in the enterprise customers segment in 2021, as 
well as a 250% increase in revenue from expansions of existing business. This 
indicates a significant increase in the number of accounts that have expanded 
the use of Whatfix across multiple applications.

Whatfix's total valuation increased 300% in 15 months since its Series C 
financing, following a successful Series D fundraising round in June 2021 led 
by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The company has raised nearly $140 million in total. 
The company also acquired Nittio-Learn, a learning management system (LMS) in 
2021 and enters 2022 with a strong focus on investing in additional 
acquisitions to strengthen its product roadmap.

Product Strengthening: With a clear product roadmap to strengthen its offerings 
for customers, Whatfix had introduced three new solutions to its portfolio in 
H2, 2021.

  - Behavioral Analytics - This is a set of analytics tools intended to assist 
Product Managers & application owners in understanding how their application 
interacts with users. 'User Actions' and 'Insights' were launched and witnessed 
tremendous traction among customers in 2021. 
  - SAP on Desktop - ERPs legacy interface and complex processes can result in 
low data quality impacting business decisions. In-the-moment guidance from 
Whatfix helped enterprises reduce training and support costs on the web-apps 
that were extended to desktop SAP apps. 
  - Auto Testing - To ensure a smooth experience for both end-user and content 
teams, Whatfix launched automated testing of all flows, configured at the 
backend by content teams, which produces a report highlighting any instances 
where the flow is failing, the exact step behind the issue, and the actions 
that could be taken to fix it.

Industry Thought Leadership: In 2021, Whatfix hosted two successful digital 
adoption summits with industry leaders from companies such as Accenture, 
Cognizant, Snap Inc. and Deloitte. The events featured more than 45 speakers 
and recorded over 3,000 registrations. In addition, Whatfix launched the 
first-of-its-kind Buyer's Guide to Digital Adoption Platforms ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3425161-1&h=2887141182&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fwhatfix-launches-a-unique-buyers-guide-to-digital-adoption-platforms-dap-by-the-everest-group%2F&a=Buyer%27s+Guide+to+Digital+Adoption+Platforms 
) by Everest Group, a leading research firm. The study surveyed digital 
adoption platform (DAP) buyers to examine the most important capabilities of 
DAPs for customers, as well as the ROI generated for organizations.

Employee Growth: To support its continued business growth, Whatfix increased 
its headcount by 40% in 2021 in sales and technology departments, including key 
leadership hires. Notably, 22-year tech-industry veteran Patrick Ashamalla 
joined the team as Vice President of Product Design in the US. Under his 
leadership, Ashamalla has built a cross-functional team consisting of UX 
researchers and design experts to deliver solutions across web, desktop, and 
mobile-native platforms, as well as established a customer engagement model 
that brings a persistent consumer focus to their UX solutions throughout the 
product lifecycle.

Continuing with its vision of providing industry and domain based solutions, 
Whatfix has onboarded Ajay Kumar as Vice President of Pre-Sales Solutions, an 
industry veteran with 26 years of experience across finance and business 
applications like ERP, EPM, SCM, HCM and CRM. Ajay will focus on establishing 
Whatfix's category leadership of DAP across specific sectors and industries.

The expansion of the sales and engineering teams enable Whatfix to evolve its 
technology excellence and customer-first focus.

Awards: Whatfix was recognized with over 20 awards spanning corporate, 
technology, customer success, and entrepreneur/executive categories. Notably, 
Whatfix ranked 143rd on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3425161-1&h=139072845&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.deloitte.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2FDeloitte%2Fus%2FDocuments%2Ftechnology-media-telecommunications%2Fus-tmt-fast-500-2021-winners-list.pdf&a=Deloitte+Technology+Fast+500 
), earning the distinction as the highest-ranked digital adoption platform. 
Among Bay Area companies, Whatfixwas ranked 40th. The Deloitte Technology Fast 
500(TM) ranks the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, 
life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America each year. 
Industry analysts also took note of Whatfix's leadership, naming the company a 
leader and star performer in the Everest Group's 2021 DAP PEAK Matrix ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3425161-1&h=12979013&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.everestgrp.com%2Freportaction%2FEGR-2021-24-R-4587%2FMarketing&a=Everest+Group%27s+2021+DAP+PEAK+Matrix 
).

Looking Ahead, Whatfix is on track for continued growth and momentum in 2022, 
with plans to strengthen its presence in the U.S., Europe, and ANZ, while also 
expanding its international footprint in countries such as Japan, South East 
Asia, and India. The company remains laser-focused on customer success and 
continued product innovation. Last year, Whatfix submitted two more patents and 
has more in the pipeline for 2022.

To learn more about the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) Certification Program, 
please visit https://universityhome.whatfix.com/

About Whatfix
Whatfix empowers anyone, anywhere to have scalable success with technology they 
use everyday, achieving greater knowledge, expanding capability, and unlocking 
productivity for themselves and their organizations. Whatfix's Digital Adoption 
Platform (DAP) integrates seamlessly with applications to enable users, 
providing in-context information and guidance to immediately increase 
individual capability and collectively amplify productivity. The organization 
has six offices globally in the US, India, UK, Germany, and Australia, and 
works with Fortune 500 companies around the world. Whatfix has raised $140 
million to date, and is backed by marquee investors including Softbank Vision 
Fund 2, Sequoia Capital India, and Cisco Investments. For more information, 
visit Whatfix's website ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3425161-1&h=757487045&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2F&a=website 
).

Media contact:
Fay Li
Lumina Communications for Whatfix
Whatfix@luminapr.com

Source - Whatfix