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Delphix · Pillar 02 · Creative

Five years that changed the face of Delphix.

The rebrand was the starting line. What followed was five years of creative that rebuilt every surface a buyer touches, sharpened the story, and put the company on stage in front of its own market. The numbers moved with it: from $55M to over $100M in ARR.

$55M$100M+
Annual recurring revenue, in five years
93
Months of sales cycle, cut by two thirds
25%
Attrition, against a ~50% industry norm
Delphix keynote on stage at DevOps and Data Impact, the X mark lit on the big screen
We finally showed the world who we really are.
DevOps + Data Impact keynote
The premise
A brand only matters once the market feels it.

The new identity was worth nothing on a style guide. It had to show up in every page, pitch, campaign, and room where deals actually move. That was the work: take the story to market, at volume, without it ever drifting.

01 · The story we told

We changed what we sold without changing the story.

Delphix was moving off DevOps test data management and onto three solutions: Discovery, Masking, and Provisioning. A clean break in the narrative would have cost us every buyer who already knew us. So we kept the story we had earned, fast application releases, security, a DevOps data platform, and let it widen into the full application lifecycle. Same arc, bigger promise, no reset. That shift lived in three decks, each one carrying it to a different room.

Beat 01
The trend they live in

Releases went from monthly to millions of CI/CD runs. Start where the buyer already is.

Beat 02
The cost of ignoring it

77M records exposed, a $350M settlement. Test data is the unguarded door.

Beat 03
Why point tools fail

Every cloud ships its own masking and catalog. No consistent control anywhere.

Beat 04
The wider promise

One data operating model across the application lifecycle, not one more tool.

Beat 05
Proof in their language

Unisys, JPMorgan Chase, 560% five-year ROI. The claim, closed out by a customer.

Corporate story slide: Automate End to End Data Compliance, with Discover, Mask and Provision as three steps
01 · CEO keynote
16 slides

The corporate story

Told by the CEO to the market. Three industry trends, then the turn: Delphix as a multicloud data operating model for the whole application lifecycle.

What makes it differentAlmost no product in it. The deck earns the right to the pitch by making the problem undeniable first.

Follow the arc
Sales pitch slide: the three product pillars, Data Automation, Data Compliance and Data Governance
02 · Field pitch
21 slides

The sales pitch

The same five beats, then it keeps going. Product pillars, how it works, referential integrity, ROI, and the logos that already bet on us.

What makes it differentBuilt to be interrupted. Buyer personas, entry points, and validation slides let a rep jump to whatever the room actually asked about.

See how reps carried it in
Customer framework page: ERGO Insurance priorities and business goals beside how Delphix can support them
03 · ABM reference
One Slide per account

The customer framework

Built for the ABM launch off deep account, persona, and buyer-journey research. ERGO, Investec, Barclays: each account's own values, priorities, and goals, with our answer beside them.

What makes it differentIt is not our story at all. It reads in the customer's words first, which is what finally aligned the org on one view of the buyer.

Read it from the customers
02 · The website

A new digital front door.

The first real test of the brand: explain a complex product in seconds and look confident doing it. I led the redesign end to end, then built it out to a full solution system that all held one voice.

Delphix homepage: A platform for DevOps Test Data Management, with the four-pillar DevOps Data Platform Difference row below
delphix.com · Homepage
Full-length scroll of the Delphix homepage, hero through footer
Full page
Delphix Elastic Data product page hero with layered isometric cube illustration
Product page · Elastic Data
Modernization to Multicloud solution page, hero through the dark statistics band
Solution page · Multicloud
How it works: source, protect, control and integrate, drawn as a dark four-stage explainer with proprietary line icons
Platform explainer · Source, protect, control
The system underneath
Color system: brand, neutral, surface, text, border and interactive tokens
Typography system: display through H6 headings and body scale
Spacing system: 4 to 160 pixel scale, layout widths and radii
03 · Campaigns & collateral

One message, every channel.

A modular system for demand-gen, ABM, nurture, and social, all sharing one look so the team could launch fast and never drift off brand. More than 400 pieces of collateral ran through it.

Data Is the Last Automation Frontier campaign key visual Data Masking white paper cover Delphix social campaign graphic DevOps Test Data Management For Dummies Delphix vertical campaign key visual Video title card with Jed Yueh and Gene Kim Delphix social campaign graphic Data Company Conference expo invitation email
Michelin Drives Sustainable Mobility podcast graphic Delphix social campaign graphic Delphix campaign graphic Delphix campaign graphic Delphix campaign banner Delphix campaign graphic Delphix campaign banner Delphix campaign graphic
400+
Pieces of collateral
4
Motions: demand-gen, ABM, nurture, social
1
Modular system behind all of it
04 · Case Study of the Year

Proof, told like a story.

We produced 20 custom customer case studies. One, SelectHealth, won Case Study of the Year at the 2019 BIG Awards for Business, a data-for-DevOps story framed around something human: helping people live longer, healthier lives.

Official 2019 BIG Awards for Business winner badge
SelectHealth success story cover: bringing healthcare solutions to market faster
Case study challenge spread Case study solution spread
SelectHealth  ·  Case Study of the Year, 2019 BIG Awards for Business
05 · The marquee events

We put the company on its own stage.

The Data Company Summit, Data Impact, and the Delphix Data Conference gave the story a room of its own. Across more than 150 events, the brand stopped explaining itself and started being felt.

Full ballroom at Data Company Summit 2023 during the SustainableIT Awards Gala segment
Delphix CEO presenting the Data is the Oxygen of Digital Transformation keynote
Fireside chat on stage at Data Company Summit 2023
Delphix conference booth environment
Data Megatrends panel on stage with four speakers
Data Company Summit · Data Impact · Delphix Data Conference  ·  One brand system across stage, screen, and room
Data Privacy and Protection panel on stage at Data Company Summit
Delphix CEO on stage delivering the Data Company Summit keynote Watch the keynote · YouTube
The keynote  ·  Our CEO opening the Summit with the new positioning and narrative
35%
Expansion conversion
10%
New-logo conversion
150+
Events brought to market
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