Hi Community,
In 2025, we drove Showpad forward through four major seasonal releases: February, May, August, and November. Each of them brought bold architectural upgrades and game-changing AI features. And while those months stole the spotlight, the in-between periods were packed with key usability improvements and tighter CRM integrations. Let’s take a look back at a year of growth and what it sets up for 2026.
The Major Releases: Feb, May, Aug, Nov
The heaviest lifting this year, including major AI integrations, improved reporting, and architectural overhauls arrived in these four pivotal updates.
February: Strengthening Foundations
The year began by fortifying the infrastructure for enterprise content management.
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The new Admin App: We fully transitioned to the new interface for Admins this year, launching GA in February. The update brings a 10x UX improvement, modernizing daily workflows with a faster interface and powerful features like Automation Rules, Global Search, AI-powered Page Builder, AI-powered tag translations, AI-powered file name and description suggestions and many more.
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Next-Gen AEM Integration: A completely new Adobe Experience Manager integration replaced the previous solution, providing smoother performance and reliable syncing of assets and permissions between AEM and Showpad.
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Shared Space Templates (General Availability): We officially launched Shared Space Templates allowing Admins to pre-configure branded, scenario-specific Shared Spaces, ensuring consistency across buyer experiences while significantly reducing seller setup time.
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Auto-Create Shared Spaces (Public APIs): We unlocked new Public APIs that allow you to automate the creation of Shared Spaces directly from your CRM or external tools. Now, you can trigger a fully templated deal room to generate automatically the moment an opportunity advances, eliminating manual setup for your sellers.
May: The Administrator Experience
The spring release focused on giving Admins better visibility and control over the "collaboration layer" of the platform.
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Enhanced User Management: Admin tools were updated to match the Online Platform's parity, offering granular filters to manage users and groups at scale.
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Automation rules for Users and User Groups: Enable automatic deactivation and group updates based on user metadata or course completion, keeping user lists accurate and licenses optimized.
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Shared Spaces Management Dashboard (Beta): For the first time, Admins gained a centralized view of all Shared Spaces, allowing them to track interactions and transfer ownership when sellers changed roles.
August: Content & Competency at Scale
The mid-year update prioritized efficiency for global teams.
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Global Pages: A major win for enterprises, this allowed Admins to create Pages that function like Global Files: create once, distribute across all Divisions.
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Reusable Sections: A massive efficiency booster for scale, this empowered Admins to build master content blocks once and manage them centrally, ensuring perfect brand consistency across thousands of Pages with a single update.
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Competency Reporting: The Report Builder expanded to include custom Team Competency reports, finally allowing Admins to link seller skills and scores directly to business outcomes via CSV exports.
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Shared Spaces Usability: Buyers and Sellers gained the ability to drag and drop files directly into Shared Spaces, along with bulk actions for moving and organizing content.
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Public API to Add Content to Shared Spaces: Partners and customers were empowered to automatically add content to Shared Spaces via a new public API, eliminating manual uploads and enabling personalized, scalable content workflows across integrated systems.
November: The AI & Analytics Boom
The final major release was the most feature-rich, introducing a suite of AI tools and deeper analytics.
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LibraryIQ Health Metrics: A new dashboard for Admins to instantly spot "unhealthy" library data, such as expiring files or unused pages.
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AI-Powered Page Localization: A breakthrough for global scale, this enabled Admins to use AI to instantly translate content and maintain structural consistency across every regional version of a Page
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PitchAI: Gives sellers instant, actionable feedback on their practice pitches, helping them improve performance, confidence, and deal outcomes while enabling teams to scale coaching efficiently.
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Manager Insights for Shared Spaces: The Shared Spaces Dashboard was rolled out to direct managers, empowering them to monitor activity and guide best practices and coaching based on their team's deal activity.
Other Noteworthy Updates
While the major releases set the strategic direction, the months in between delivered high-impact tactical improvements.
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January - Search & Discovery: The year kicked off with Salesforce Widget Search, allowing sellers to hunt for specific assets without leaving the CRM. iOS users also received Translated Tags, ensuring tags appear in the user's preferred language.
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June - Visuals & Navigation: Usability got a boost with Universal Links, ensuring internal links open in the correct app/browser seamlessly. Admins also gained the ability to upload Custom Thumbnails for files to ensure better brand consistency.
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September - Automation & Security: Admin capabilities expanded with Scheduled Automation Rules (e.g., setting a future date to archive content) and Global Shared Spaces Settings, which allow companies to enforce strict compliance rules (like blocking downloads and commenting) organization-wide.
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October - Learning Precision: Showpad Coach received Fine-Grained Progress Tracking, allowing sellers to pause and resume lessons exactly where they left off, giving managers more accurate completion data.
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December - ROI & Metadata: The year closed with Showpad Content ROI for MS Dynamics, visually linking content to revenue impact, and AI Suggested Tags, which automatically recommends metadata tags to keep libraries organized.
Looking Ahead: Our Vision for 2026
As we move into 2026, our focus centers on leveraging AI to transform data into actionable insights, reducing platform friction for every user, and scaling automation to give your teams back their most valuable asset: time. The roadmap is evolving quickly, and the best way to stay informed and help shape the future of our platform alongside your peers is through The Rev.