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Does CDP Need a New Definition?

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The claim gained some plausibility from the fact that modern cloud data warehouse technologies, such as Snowflake, Google Big Query, and AWS Redshift, are in fact used by some conventional CDP vendors. So there’s more happening here than a simple data transfer or API call.

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How Lego Bocks Explain Why Bloomreach Bought Exponea

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The drive to build suites clarifies why predictive analytics vendors Bloomreach, RichRelevance, and Gpredictive are such frequent partners: stand-alone predictive tools are missing nearly all the features needed for a full marketing platform, so they have the most to gain from buying a CDP that fills those gaps.

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Build vs Buy Your Customer Data Platform?

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Data Collection/Buy Advantage: a purchased CDP will have prebuilt connectors for many source systems and often a standard API for creating new connectors. Outputs/Build Advantage: existing systems may have connectors in place to deliver outputs to company reporting, marketing, messaging, analytical, and other systems.

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Claritix Assembles Marketing Data for Analysis: Maybe That's Enough

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Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. It can connect with others through standard APIs. It also uses matches created elsewhere such as lead IDs used to synchronize CRM and marketing automation data or cookie IDs imported from Google Analytics.

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

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It’s clear that 2015 has been the breakout year for predictive analytics in marketing, with at least $242 million in new funding, compared with $366 million in all prior years combined. What’s significant here is less the reporting than that Radius is moving beyond analytics to give clients lists of potential customers.

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Openprise Gives Marketers Easy(ish) Tool to Manage Their Data

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When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. Openprise also integrates today with Google Apps and the Amazon Redshift database.

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Iterable Offers Mid-Size B2C Marketers Powerful Campaigns in Outbound Channels

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Iterable definitely builds its own database, using the JSON API and Elasticsearch data store to manage pretty much any kind of data you might throw at it. Users can do analytics and build segments using Iterable’s own tools or export selected elements to other systems in a file. This can happen in real time (yay!)