Announcing Pantheon for Agencies: World's Leading Website Management Platform Now Free For Dev Shops, Design Firms, and Professional Developers

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Pantheon, the leading Website Management Platform, today announced the immediate availability of Pantheon for Agencies, the world's most complete website environment. Pantheon for Agencies helps professionals build, launch and run websites by delivering the trusted tools, developer workflow and high performance hosting—all as a service.  Pantheon's 300-agency partners were instantly upgraded to this latest release of Pantheon and can immediately take advantage of new website management tools, team collaboration and security enhancements.

Pantheon for Agencies replaces do-it-yourself (DIY) website infrastructure and traditional hosting with a website management platform for professional web teams to build, launch, and run sites for their clients.  Pantheon for Agencies is free to any digital agency that builds websites with Drupal and WordPress.  The platform frees up an agency's billable hours so they can focus on high value client projects instead of non strategic DevOps work.

The Most Complete Website Management Platform for Agencies

Pantheon solves the problems inherent in traditional hosting, from website outages to the inability to handle large traffic spikes, security, team management, version control, and deployment. Pantheon delivers blazingly fast website performance, security and scale as a service and powers more than 85,000 websites delivering billions of page views every month.

Until now, digital agencies had to build their own internal DIY website infrastructure and hosting relationships for web projects. This complex setup process ties up the most senior technical resources with DevOps tasks that are non-billable and not strategic. Pantheon is the first Website Management Platform on the market with a complete solution for Agencies that is designed for Drupal and WordPress including:

• A master view of an agency's Drupal and WordPress sites
• Workflow and version control including dev, test and live environments for every site
• Multidev so web teams can collaborate in the cloud
• Change management to control granular permissions
• Site management and tagging tools to keep people and projects organized

Pantheon for Agencies is FREE for any agency building sites with Drupal and WordPress. https://pantheon.io/agency

Now Every Professional Developer Can Access Top Agency Tools

Websites are the most critical digital marketing investment companies make: more digital marketing dollars are invested in websites annually ($130B) than in digital advertising ($110B). Organizations rely on digital agencies to drive or supplement these projects.

There are more than 100K digital agencies --- web design, development, and digital marketing firms -- that globally employ over 1+M professionals who serve every industry vertical and size. These agencies have driven the adoption of WordPress and Drupal website technologies which now claim more than 60% market share for all CMS-powered websites.

Agencies such as HUGE Inc, Alley Interactive, 10Up and NorthPoint Digital are successfully using Pantheon to manage their teams of developers who are building some of the world's most impressive websites.  With Pantheon for Agencies, dev shops are able to manage multiple teams across multiple web projects with built-in workflows and best practices.  Every Pantheon website includes dev, test and live environments and workflow best practices to keep every developer up to date with the correct version of code and content in every branch.

"Using Pantheon has sped up our site launches and allowed us to build better websites for our customers. Even better, it has freed up our developers' time to work on strategic and billable customer projects. This allows us to produce more high-quality work and keep our customers even happier." Zach Feres - CEO Coplex

Over 300 Pantheon Partners and hundreds of other agencies use Pantheon to build, launch and run websites. Given the significant technical needs of agencies and the lack of compelling web platform solutions to date, it is not a surprise to see hundreds of agencies join Pantheon every month to replace their DIY infrastructure, and poor hosting options.

Pantheon for Agencies is now available and is free for design firms, dev shops and creative agencies.

Additional Information:

• Learn more about Pantheon for Agencies: Product Announcement
• Create a free Pantheon for Agencies account:  Sign Up
• Learn more about becoming a Pantheon partner: Partner Information
• Read Pantheon CEO's, Zack Rosen, perspective:  CEO Blog
• Follow @getpantheon on Twitter
• Like Pantheon on Facebook: https://facebook.com/getpantheon

About Pantheon

Pantheon is the world's largest website management platform, delivering Drupal and WordPress as a service. Our multi-tenant, container-based cloud platform enables web teams to build, launch, and run all of their websites from a single dashboard with ease. Large enterprises use Pantheon, including Intel, Cisco, Arizona State University, and the United Nations.

For more information about Pantheon, visit: https://pantheon.io

Contact: Jill Ratkevic, 1-408-209-5181, [email protected]

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