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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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More important, the value of platforms has been widely recognized through the tech industry for decades: classic examples include Salesforce.com ’s own AppExchange, Apple ’s iPhone AppStore, Microsoft ’s operating system software, and, going way back, the original IBM System 360.

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

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It turns out that there are several categories of specialist systems within each subtask, each doing similar or complementary things in slightly different ways. The following table shows what I found when I did this analysis. I should also stress that I’ve only included Decision-layer vendors who also build their own database. In fact, most do not.