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CDP Overview: How We Got Here, Where We're Going, and What Could Get in the Way

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s eleven years since the term “customer data platform” appeared in 2013. The first stage was just to recognize that CDP was a separate category of software. What was new about CDP was that it was packaged software that was building a customer database. What stages has it gone through over that time?

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Three Crucial Cybersecurity Questions to Ask Before Buying Any SaaS Marketing Tool

Webbiquity

The “freemium” model for software marketing—giving away a limited version of an online software product in order to entice users into paying for a scaled-up or full-featured version—started gaining traction back in early 2013 and really took off over the next 18 months. Guest post by Ayush Trivedi.

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NGData Gives Enterprise Marketers a Customer Data Platform of Their Own

Customer Experience Matrix

If you read my recent post on Customer Data Platforms Revisited very, very closely, you might have noticed it listed a category of data vendors who “store unified profiles and expose to other systems”, which is pretty much the core definition of a Customer Data Platform. Again, no reader of this blog will disagree.

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New Marketing Report: B2B Lead Generation Trends 2013

Everything Technology Marketing

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

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The Founder Interview Series #26: Orrin Broberg, Modus

Webbiquity

B2B marketing teams have become highly proficient at producing content, whether for lead generation, brand awareness, or sales acceleration. Modus Sales Hub is sales enablement software that helps salespeople have better conversations with their prospects and customers, resulting in increased sales and customer engagement. The Lessons.

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SAP gives up its stake in Qualtrics

Martech

Global software and ERP giant SAP has sold its entire stake in Qualtrics as part of a definitive agreement to acquire the experience management platform entered into by Silver Lake, a technology investment firm, and Canada Pension Plan Investments. SAP had owned a controlling share in Qualtrics. The all-cash agreement reflects a $12.5

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13 influential marketing technology leaders

ClickZ

30-second summary: Following a survey and some editorial research, we have highlighted 10 people we think are either respected industry guardians, or are making some noteworthy contributions to the marketing technology space. Nearly every person in our survey had him as one of their top five leaders in marketing technology sector.