Customer Data Platforms

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…

Our MarTech Radar 2019 Brings You The Top 250 B2B Technology Companies That We Believe Would Continue to Excite Us the Most With Their Cutting– Edge Insights, Events, Content, and Product Updates. According to a survey, 71% Martech leaders agree that their company lacks sufficient in-house martech talent; 61% of the IT leaders acknowledge lack of enough MarTech training and learning resources for Marketing professionals in dealing with traditional and advanced Martech stacks. Last year, we published the MarTech…

Latest Release from the CDP Propels Cross-Channel Customer Lifecycle Marketing to the Next Frontier BlueConic, the world’s leading pure-play customer data platform (CDP), announced enhancements to its best-in-class lifecycle orchestration capabilities, which enable marketers to move beyond channel-specific campaign workflows and instead, orchestrate cross-channel lifecycle marketing programs that are responsive to each customer’s unique journey based on the real-time, unified customer profile data at the platform’s core.…

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak will have a reverberating impact on almost every facet of life on this planet. Human behavior at its most fundamental will change. People will think twice about going into stores, customers will opt for online buying options more than before and the purchase experience will move from being predominantly in the physical world to being predominantly in the digital world. Businesses will have to create experiences tailored to these shifting customer behaviors. Before the crisis, it was clear…

Payfone Declares Latest Investment Will Accelerate Privacy-First Customer Identification Management Platform with Strategic Acquisitions Phone intelligence is undergoing a massive transformation as brands and omnichannel marketing platforms aim to deliver a smooth parallel customer experience. The Customer Experience goals can’t be fully verified without authenticating the user identity and thus prevent fraud. Therefore, CX is complete only when integrated alongside identity verification and authentication analytics…

Neustar’s partnership with Quaero helps bridge the online and offline worlds for CDP users Neustar, Inc., a global information services and technology company and leader in identity resolution, announced that it will bring its industry-leading identity resolution technology and data to the Customer Data Platform (CDP) market. Quaero will leverage Neustar’s integrated technology and verified people-based data to improve the quality and accuracy of its clients’ customer data, both on- and offline. This first-of-its-kind…

SmarterHQ announced the launch of Smarter Predictions, allowing marketers to execute machine learning and modeled campaigns across all of their data and communication channels. Smarter Predictions give brands the insights and ability to accurately anticipate a customer’s next move and power the most relevant, high-conversion messages directly in the SmarterHQ platform. These dynamic, self-tuning models update based on how customers interact in real time, which is especially crucial during busy holiday seasons and situations…

Partners with Celebrus to Deliver Personalized Experiences Across All Customer Interactions to Drive Incremental Revenue and Lower the Cost-to-Serve Teradata, the cloud data and analytics company, announced that Vantage Customer Experience (CX) is now generally commercially available. Vantage CX helps brands deliver relevant, personalized experiences in real time, across all customer interactions and touch points. By partnering with Celebrus and integrating real-time interaction data into Vantage CX, Teradata customers…

Poor data handling is costing businesses millions on resources and lost opportunity, with less than a third of CMOs feel the industry has the right skills to deal with customer data privacy, a new survey revealed. Lack of skills in data privacy compound the problem and form part of a subset of growing issues to do with a lack of internal capability and capacity. Silverbullet’s new report Whose data is it anyway? How UK marketers navigate data management as consumer privacy concerns grow, surveyed 100 UK CMOs and a wealth…

"AI technologies for contact centers are very effective in enhancing the customer experience and efficiently servicing customers." Tell us about the role/team you handle at Nuxeo. What inspired you to join the company? I have an amazing job. I am Nuxeo’s Chief Product & Marketing Officer. So, not only am I responsible for our go-to-market strategy, but also our product strategy. My team manages everything from our product design and roadmap to our messaging, programs and campaigns. As to what inspired me to join…

Enterprises using customer data platforms can easily integrate Split to measure customer impact of software development As enterprises work to improve the quality of digital experiences and the efficiency of software development, Split Software, the leading feature delivery platform, announced a pre-built integration with mParticle, a customer data platform for enterprise B2C brands. mParticle allows for the centralization, management and activation of customer and engagement data across any channel. Split’s mParticle…

Amperity, the first AI-powered Customer Data Platform (CDP), today announced that Chris Chapo will join the company as VP of Customer Success. Chris comes to Amperity with over two decades of retail analytics experience, most recently as SVP of Data and Analytics at Gap Inc. Chris will be responsible for expanding Amperity's analytics and customer intelligence offering following Amperity's recent acquisition of Custora's customer analytics platform. "Every modern brand needs to invest in bringing together two elements of…

The Outlook for Data Driven Advertising & Marketing 2020 Sees “High Probability for Solid Growth”; Research Reviews the Trends Shaping the Landscape This Year Winterberry Group, a specialist management consultancy that supports growth initiatives in advertising, marketing, media, information and technology, today released new research: “The Outlook for Data Driven Advertising & Marketing 2020.” The annual research led by Bruce Biegel, senior managing partner of Winterberry Group, provides the spending forecasts…

Enrich first-party data assets with high-quality location data to derive deeper customer insights and make more informed decisions Factual, the location data platform, announced Data Enrichment, a new product that allows businesses to enrich first-party customer data with Factual’s high quality, real-world visitation data in order to better understand and engage their customers. With Data Enrichment, CMOs and other marketing decision makers can uncover deeper customer insights, enabling them to improve audience modeling…

Terence Runge to Ensure Reltio Connected Customer 360 and Internal Systems Stay Ahead of Changing, Challenging Security and Regulatory Landscapes Reltio, an award-winning software as a service (SaaS) company at the heart of helping innovative Global 2000 companies win in the experience economy, today announced that Terence Runge, CISSP, joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He will partner with engineering and product management to shape and guide the company's security and compliance strategy.…

Digital Marketing Expertise from Mitsui to Accelerate Factual’s Entry into the Japanese Market Factual, the location data company, announced a strategic partnership with Mitsui & Co. (“Mitsui” head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Tatsuo Yasunaga) to bring Factual’s location data-based offerings to Japan. Mitsui, which has also made a strategic investment in Factual, will assist with the integration of Factual data into local programmatic ad buying, social and publisher platforms, and will also drive…

Could you tell us about your role and the team/technology you handle at RedPoint Global? As one of the Founders of RedPoint Global and the Chief Technology Officer, I have the opportunity to help materialize a vision of empowering marketers with a technology platform that defragments the world they work in. Every day marketers are mired in the logistical challenges of mastering data, deriving insights and precise execution. These are simple ideas in theory but hard to achieve in a world where every vendor wants to…

From demographic to social and transactional, Connected Consumers are happy to offer personal data in exchange for a more personal service and experience. Relationships between brands and consumers have changed. The way we consume products, services – and even marketing messages – is not the same as it once was. The proliferation of smartphones and tablets, along with the rise in value of the subscription economy is leading this change. Consumers are now hyper-connected in ways that never existed before. Digital…

With the new Supermetrics HubSpot connector launching today, marketers can now, for the first time, combine data across HubSpot portals with just a few clicks. No programming or integration work is needed. The solution is very much anticipated as it enables marketers to effortlessly consolidate HubSpot data with other marketing data HubSpot has partnered with Supermetrics to solve some major reporting pain points for its customers. HubSpot users can now, for the first time, easily analyze and report data across HubSpot…

If you look back to 2009-2011, you would realize how differently Marketing Teams worked with data and analytics then. The 4P's of the Marketing Mix remained the crux of every successful branding and product pricing. Analytics was restricted mostly to offline data collection aggregated from retail stores, web data, and primitive email marketing contact lists. Today, the whole game of Marketing Analytics has transformed. The coming of age for analytics within Mobile, Social, Web, In-app, Video and E-commerce has pushed the…