By James Bayhack, Sub-Saharan Africa Director at www.CM.com In today’s digital world, data-driven customer analytics have become the heartbeat of modern businesses. Customers are engaging with businesses through digital channels while innovative technology allows the tracking of online activity, giving businesses access to more customer insights. So, how can businesses manage all the data at their disposal? Marketing Technology News: Realeyes Named Winner In 2021 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards For Its…

The partnership makes it fast and easy to integrate advanced machine learning into marketing and product workflows Vidora, the leading No-Code Machine Learning Platform for marketing, announced an integration with Twilio Segment, the world’s leading Customer Data Platform, to enable customers to quickly and easily use their first-party data in advanced machine learning algorithms for marketing and product workflows. Marketing Technology News: Takeaways From The 2020-2021 Covid-19 Pandemic: The Right…

Pre-emptive, Insider-led Series C Extension Builds on Impressive YOY Growth, Major Client Wins and Customer Satisfaction Ranking That Surpasses Legacy Marketing Clouds ActionIQ, the leading Enterprise Customer Data Platform (CDP), today announced that it extended its Series C financing, bringing the total capital raised in the round to $100MM. Between this latest capital infusion and exponential growth—more than 100 percent uptick in revenue year-over-year—the extension increased the company's valuation by over 250 percent…

On the heels of a year of accelerated growth, Optimizely now brings an added layer of customer context to the core of the most modern Digital Experience Platform available today Today, leading provider of digital experience platform solutions, Optimizely (formerly Episerver), announced it has acquired Zaius, a customer data platform (CDP), bringing the context of the customer to the experience creation and optimization process of digital experiences. Marketing Technology News: Marketing Technology…

The report highlights how the pandemic, cookie loss, and data privacy are dictating how marketers will allocate budgets and which tech functionalities they will prioritize in 2021 Marketers turned to customer data platforms more than ever in 2020 as the pandemic prompted more urgency for digital transformations, the death of third-party cookies impacted data strategies, and a slew of data privacy changes provided new rules to address. Tealium, the trusted leader in real-time customer data orchestration,…

AI-Powered CDP unifies CX data to deliver intelligent omnichannel experiences for consumer brands Blueshift, the leading AI-Powered Customer Data Platform, announced a $30 million Series C financing round, bringing the total amount raised to $65 million. This latest funding round was led by Fort Ross Ventures, along with Avatar Growth Capital. Existing investors including Softbank Ventures Asia, Storm Ventures, Conductive Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners also participated in the round. Ratan Singh of Fort Ross Ventures…

Funding and fresh leadership will enable Leadspace to accelerate growth, product development and customer adoption of its leading AI-driven B2B Customer Data Platform (CDP) Current clients include Salesforce, American Express, Zoom and more Leadspace announced it has raised $46 million in growth funding led by JVP. The funding validates Leadspace as a front runner in a burgeoning Customer Data Platform (CDP) market that is estimated to generate $2.4 billion in 2020, and expand to $10.3 billion by 2025. Leadspace plans to…

Salesforce Marketing Leader Leah Pope Hired as CMO & Act-On Software Chief Revenue Officer Chris Masino Joins as CRO ActionIQ, the leading Enterprise Customer Data Platform (CDP), today announced the addition of two new C-level executives to its leadership suite. The announcement comes on the heels of the company's 100 percent year-over-year revenue growth, with the two senior execs being called upon to continue rapid expansion and adoption of the ActionIQ platform. Leah Pope, formerly of Salesforce, where she served…

Starling unites your data to keep guests at the heart of what you do Cendyn announces Starling, Cendyn's next-generation customer data platform (CDP). Starling unites, transforms, cleanses, and enriches millions of data points from all your technology solutions, giving you the ability to take control of your data and keep guests at the heart of what you do. Marketing Technology News: Marketers Now Able to Pinpoint Why Visitors Aren’t Engaging in their Digital Experience As a CDP, Starling integrates your systems, so…

Zeta, a data-driven marketing technology company, announced the launch of CDP+, a new customer data platform designed to help marketers across industries deliver an elevated, omnichannel customer experience. CDP+ provides marketers with a customer view enriched with Zeta’s proprietary live-signal data and predictive AI scoring to determine the best marketing personalization strategy. As a result, CDP+ is able to obtain an accurate, actionable view of every single customer in its network, allowing marketers to achieve…

Forrester Study of ActionIQ with InfiniteCompute Confirms 'Best-in-Breed' Capabilities & Shows Over 500 Percent Return on Investment ActionIQ, the leading Enterprise Customer Data Platform (CDP), announced general availability of InfiniteCompute – its proprietary, highly scalable customer database technology. The release from closed beta reflects a continued rise in large enterprises' demand for customer data management within a CDP. ActionIQ invested more than 3 years of R&D to develop and release…

Popular open source CDP also offers new entry-level pricing tiers starting at just $750/month RudderStack, which provides a Customer Data Platform (CDP) designed specifically for developers, launched the next generation of its SaaS offering - RudderStack Cloud, the most efficient, affordable and sophisticated customer data product for developers. Offering integrations with platforms such as Snowflake and DBT, RudderStack Cloud solves the data silo problem by enabling data engineers to unify their data and add CDP…

Phunware, Inc., a fully-integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data, and services for brands worldwide, announced the launch of its Multiscreen-as-a-Service (MaaS) Customer Data Platform (CDP). The global CDP market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 34% to more than $10.3 billion by 2025. This worldwide market is being fueled and accelerated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as businesses from retailers to healthcare providers are increasingly relying…

SAP SE announced the global launch of SAP Customer Data Platform, a next-generation customer data platform (CDP) that aims to allow organizations to redefine the customer experience across every engagement, from commerce and marketing to sales and service. The announcement was made at SAP Customer Experience LIVE, held online October 14–15. As customer experience becomes an increasingly important differentiator of brands around the globe, many are turning to CDPs to help power unique, personalized experiences for a…

Accelerates Twilio’s Journey to Build the World’s Leading Customer Engagement Platform Trusted by Developers and Companies Globally Data Platform Provides Businesses a Unified Customer View to Better Understand Customers and Engage More Effectively Expands and Strengthens Use Cases Across Customer Service, Marketing, Sales, Product and Analytics Twilio announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Segment for approximately $3.2 billion in Twilio Class A common stock, on a fully diluted and…

CDP honored with MarTech BreakThrough Award win for second straight year BlueConic, the world’s leading pure-play customer data platform (CDP), announced that it has been named “Best Customer Data Platform” in the third annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MarTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global marketing, sales, and advertising technology industry today. It’s the second consecutive year the company has…

New SaaS option makes RudderStack a fit for any size enterprise RudderStack, which provides the first open source alternative to traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), announced that it now provides a SaaS deployment option to customers, making it the first open source CDP vendor to offer multiple hosting options. Customers can choose RudderStack’s SaaS offering without compromising on their security and privacy requirements, as it can run inside the customer's  Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or RudderStack’s VPC. They…

RudderStack, which provides the first open source alternative to traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), announced that it now provides a SaaS deployment option to customers, making it the first open source CDP vendor to offer multiple hosting options. Customers can choose RudderStack’s SaaS offering without compromising on their security and privacy requirements, as it can run inside the customer’s  Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or RudderStack’s VPC. They can also choose to run RudderStack’s free open source version or…

New offerings accelerate ROI on Customer Data Platform investments Acxiom, the customer intelligence company whose data-driven solutions create business growth by enabling better customer experiences, announced the launch of a comprehensive suite of customer data platform (CDP) solutions and services, designed to help marketers significantly improve the success of their CDP initiatives. Acxiom's fifty years of proven expertise managing customer data ensures brands can enjoy accelerated results on their CDP investment…

New offerings accelerate ROI on Customer Data Platform investments Acxiom, the customer intelligence company whose data-driven solutions create business growth by enabling better customer experiences, announced the launch of a comprehensive suite of customer data platform (CDP) solutions and services, designed to help marketers significantly improve the success of their CDP initiatives. “Enterprise marketers rely on our next-generation Customer Data and Experience Platform to drive revenue, improve loyalty and increase…