Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2023

My definition had changed very little when we launched the CDP Institute in 2016, and has been the same ever since: “packaged software that builds a unified, persistent customer database accessible to other systems”. persistence” – could be abandoned while still calling the result a CDP.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

This type of CDP provides the biggest headstart towards building a marketing suite. But Twilio isn’t looking to build a marketing suite; their core business is call centers and (after buying SendGrid) email messaging. Sure, you can build a pickup truck from Lego blocks and you might even do that for fun.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2013

Since Salesforce said yesterday that other companies also wanted to buy ExactTarget, it seemed possible that SAP had lost the deal and purchased hybris as a second choice. You can also build great customer experiences with little or no back office integration. People integrate CRM with back-office systems all the time.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It applies game-based motivational methods to company advocates. The company plans additional API connections with Jive, ZenDesk , and other systems. Marketing automation vendors have mostly worked on making it easy to post and share messages and to capture social data. See my December 8 post for details.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 26, 2023

Zylo put the average company-wide utilization at 56% and Productiv put it at 45%. That’s what pushes companies to buy new systems to fill in the gaps. Specifically, I wonder whether marketers will close gaps by building their own applications with AI instead of buying applications from someone else. It aint necessarily so.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The need for unified customer data has now been so widely understood for so long that we just naturally assume that more companies will have developed it. It’s hard to imagine companies have actually abandoned their unified databases, but even if growth has only slowed, that would be a big surprise.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

So far, we’ve seen two main trends emerge: extension of CDP product scope beyond the core of building the customer database itself and expansion into new industries. Another reason is that CDPs also included third stream of vendors: tag managers whose original focus was on building connectors to ingest and distribute data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 27, 2019

SessionM/Mastercard: most CDP acquisitions have been made by companies that are not primarily marketing software vendors. Note that it's truly a build/buy choice: many of the buyers already have extensive customer data management operations, so they probably could have built the systems for themselves.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether these stressors outweigh the benefits of remote work will depend on how well companies manage them, so we can expect a period of experimentation and turmoil as businesses learn what works best. A closely related subplot is continued security breaches as companies fail to secure their data despite best efforts.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Institute published a Composable CDP Self-Assessment tool a few weeks ago, which gives a checklist of the functions required to replicate the profile-building capabilities of a standard CDP. “Composable CDP” has been consuming much attention at CDP Institute as we wrestle with how best to help buyers who are considering it as an option.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

But many companies have multiple source and delivery systems that are disconnected: these are the infamous silos. A second answer is that some companies already have chosen tools they want for analytics or personalization. All CDPs build a unified, persistent, sharable customer database. Some add analytics and personalization.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 13, 2006

One set of vendors that caught my eye were those helping companies to engage with customers outside of the normal purchasing process. It can be a channel (users group or fan club meeting), an activity (writing a review or receiving training), or an experience objective (build community involvement).

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 6, 2007

The article also mentions efforts by Google and DoubleClick to create online exchanges for advertising purchases, and suggests these may also face resistance from media companies. For internal situations, the medium owner and advertiser are the same company but the separation between exposing and exploiting information is still relevant.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 18, 2020

But bear in mind that 92% of consumers say they would avoid a company after a data breach. I recently took a quick scan of research on the issue, prompted in particular by a headline that nearly half of companies release software they know contains security flaws. So, like it or not, security is a marketer’s problem too.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 26, 2007

But Holtom and others argue the main problem is banks build their own event-detection systems rather than purchasing someone else’s. In one example Holtom cites, a company’s existing event-detection project yielded an unmanageable 660,000 leads per day, compared with a handy 16,000 for eventricity. Event detection looks simple.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2021

It’s the difference between building a flight simulator game and an actual aircraft. As with all technology shifts, the leaders in the old world – the big software companies and audience aggregators like Facebook and Google – won’t necessarily lead in the new world. . -

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 11, 2019

Specifically, they see Origami Logic as providing a “strong data architecture” that will “accelerate Intuit’s ability to organize, understand, and use data to deliver personalized insights that help customers quickly achieve success and build confidence whenever they use Intuit products.” Indeed, Looker already runs on Google Cloud.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 27, 2020

But no one else can represent marketers’ perspectives as companies decide how to implement expanded privacy programs. This is searching company systems to build a catalog of sensitive data, including the type and location of each item. I feel your pain: it’s another chore for your already-full agenda.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 6, 2007

We want to use these to build a prioritized list of business opportunities—putting something behind the One Big Button in the LTV system. Building this list three steps: finding where improvement seems possible; estimating the amount of potential improvement; and prioritizing the results. Well, that’s enough fun for one day.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The deal follows Acquia’s May 2019 purchase of open source marketing automation platform Mautic and September 2019 purchase of site building tool Cohesion. AgilOne rebuilt its core technology fairly recently, giving it a highly flexible and scalable platform that should easily extend beyond the company’s current base in mid-tier retail.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 10, 2017

Less pleasantly, Cheetah’s systems have also been largely unchanged for years, something that company leaders could admit openly since they are now free to make new investments. Kazi said about one third of the company’s revenue already comes from Marketing Suite. It is also one of the few that can handle enterprise-scale email.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 27, 2018

To put it bluntly, the problem that CDP solves isn’t the lack of technology to build unified customer databases: it’s that corporate IT departments haven’t used that technology to meet marketers’ needs. Your CDP is a failure for this reason only if building such a database was its goal. That’s rarely the case.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 25, 2020

Many buyers are convinced it’s not necessary and perhaps not even possible to build meaningful requirements lists: they point to the old-school “waterfall” approach used in systems design, which routinely takes too long and produces unsatisfactory results. Proof of concept engagements used to be fairly rare.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 7, 2007

This is calculated for each product, for the company as a whole, and perhaps at relevant intermediate levels such as divisions. (If If the company can offer different treatments to customers from different sources, the analysis could be done down to the product/source level too.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 7, 2018

But these are pretty much the same for all companies so they can be part of a standard template. The only other input needed from the buyer is information about her own company and goals. A complete RFP would have additional questions such as vendor background and pricing. fill the most gaps).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 1, 2019

But Datorama and Treasure Data were the first acquisitions of large CDP companies. ARM Holdings, itself owned by tech conglomerate SoftBank, is a chip technology company that purchased Treasure Data to manage Internet of Things data. These companies are small and lightly funded, averaging just 25 employees and $4 million.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 9, 2020

Growth there began in 2017, paused as companies worked to meet the GDPR deadline of May 2018, and then resumed. In the less mature markets, this interest is more likely to result in buying a solution from an agency or in building a solution in-house. The UK market is closest to the U.S. and most mature.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 12, 2017

Thomas Wieberneit argues in a thoughtful blog post that companies need one platform for consolidated customer data, but that Customer Data Platform isn’t it because the CDP is “marketer-controlled” by definition, and thus doesn’t support other departments. This hits a nerve. So what’s holding me back from changing the definition?

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Some of the most impressive marketing systems I’ve seen have been developed for mobile phone marketing, especially for companies that sell prepaid phones. Founded in India in 2008, its original clients were South Asian and African companies whose primary product was text messaging. Flytxt is a good example.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The Customer Decision Hub from Pega (formerly PegaSystems) is certainly mature: the product can trace its roots back well over a decade, to a pioneering company called KiQ Limited, which was purchased in 2004 by Chordiant, which Pega purchased in 2010. I won't go into details of other Decision Hub components, but they’re equally advanced.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The system builds on this foundation by creating applications for related tasks such as risk analysis, privacy impact assessments, and security risk analysis. Trust-Hub argues that companies tend to focus on compliance risk even though the costs of litigation and reputation loss from a breach are vastly higher than any regulatory fines.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

The "what" is pretty simple: it builds a large number of models in a fully automated fashion. During a typical run, Model Factory evaluates the input data, does data prep such as treating outliers and transforming variables, builds new models, checks each model for usable results, and scores customer records for models that pass.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Duke Fuqua’s most recent CMO Survey found that use of online (first party) customer data has grown at 63% of companies in the past two years while just 31% expanded use of third party data. Third party data also includes intent information based on behaviors beyond the company’s own Web site.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2017

Its core clients have been mid-to-large ecommerce companies, originally in the U.S. First, it builds a database of customer information. It can also build a product catalog either by scraping product information directly from the Web site or by importing batch files. and now also in Europe.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When I first spoke with Radius just over one year ago, the company had already pivoted from its initial concept as a mobile app to connect consumers with local business events, to building a comprehensive list of small businesses and their attributes. The company plans to address some of these gaps but has not released the details.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But the company also calls itself a “marketing integration engine” that works with “all of your data”, which certainly goes beyond just advertising. Dig a bit deeper and the confusion just grows: the company works mostly with aggregated performance data, but also works with some individual-level data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The topic is more intriguing than it sounds because it raises the dual questions of why CDPs haven’t previously been used much by B2B SaaS companies and what's changed. To build some suspense, let’s first review who else has been buying CDPs. I’m currently drafting a paper on use of Customer Data Platforms by B2B SaaS marketers.

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