Customer Experience Matrix

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. Still a suite, but a different kind.

Marketing Automation Services 270

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

It’s been quite fascinating to watch the Customer Data Platform industry develop over the past few years. 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. Both shed light on what we can expect to happen next.

Enterprise Management 278

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2021

By contrast, recent years haven’t seen radical change in software development. Even the most important software development of all – artificial intelligence – measures much of its progress by its ability to handle physical-world tasks such as image recognition, autonomous vehicle navigation, and recognizing human emotion.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 25, 2020

That’s quite different from the classic definition of a use case as a series of steps to achieve a task. There also needs to be an underlying framework to ensure the product can mature without extensive rework. At best, they’ll learn about the scope of the different products.

Work Management 194

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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 people probably give a different answer but are a small fraction of the survey respondents. But both measures fell in the current survey. CDP projects are easy: false.

Enterprise Management 177

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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. Many of these systems have developed outside the United States, since prepaid phones have a smaller market share here than elsewhere. The product itself is equally sprawling.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

As it developed, the company expanded its product and, in 2015, released its current flagship, Vizury Engage, an omnichannel personalization system sold primarily to banks and insurance companies. In a typical implementation, Vizury builds the client’s Web site home page.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

As Model Factory’s developers correctly point out, many organizations could healthily consume a nearly unlimited number of models. So the better analogy might be Green Revolution scientists increasing food production to feed the starving masses. In any case, the real questions are what Model Factory does and how.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Here’s a quick look at two products that tackle different parts of the attribution problem: content measurement and advertising measurement. When possible, it builds a unified picture of each visitor across devices and channels. It launched its first product in 2014 although attribution came later.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It doesn’t currently do identity resolution to build unified customer profiles, but is moving in that direction. This lets them manage a process that would otherwise require many different products and lots of technical support. Paradoxically, the main result of Datorama’s specialization is flexibility.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

What the Bard would have meant is that some systems are designed around a marketing database, some add a database later in their development, and some attach to external data. As I wrote last week , there are a handful of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) that do nothing but build a database. That’s spelled s-i-l-o.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It’s a common pattern: several vendors proudly roll out new products they developed in secret, only to find they’re all very similar. This means an implementation can move to different platforms without losing most of the work. Quaero has built standard connectors to common products, both to load data and access it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Still, the real focus was on Marketo’s own announcements, which included several product changes and a new positioning. (I Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. I wasn’t at the conference but Marketo briefed me on their plans.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 13, 2016

UK-based Thunderhead itself was founded way back in 2001 and launched its original customer engagement product (highly personalized customer communications such as account statements) in 2004. The system will automatically replicate the structure of imported data, maintaining relationships between different data elements.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

This made commercial products more financially attractive to potential developers and probably scared off others who couldn’t compete for attention on an open-source shoestring. Mautic will encourage such support by building a marketplace for users to sell or share resources such as workflows and templates.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 21, 2012

Conversen is somewhat similar to Entiera in offering sophisticated multi-step campaigns, although its main differentiator is multi-channel dynamic content that makes it relatively easy to deliver different messages to different segments across multiple channels. That’s a respectable installed base for this type of product.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 17, 2015

This was a common limitation among early B2B marketing automation products but many have removed it over the years. Sloan said that even before this happens, data in the custom objects will be fully available to Marketo rules for list building and campaign flows. The strategic importance of this development to Marketo is high.

Marketo 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 31, 2013

As I mentioned last week , there haven’t been many new B2C marketing automation products in recent years. New developments have come from established vendors who are steadily expanding their products. However, it differs in several key details: - it supports both batch (outbound) and real time interactions.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Once a machine starts balancing different factors, marketing opportunities arise: for example, a car that''s told to minimize total operating costs might choose more expensive gasoline if that’s combined with a discount on an oil change it will need the near future. This is another product somebody should build if they haven''t already.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 29, 2013

since they’re clearly in a different business. But there’s another set of vendors that look very much like Mintigo, Infer, and Lattice Engines building detailed profiles by extracting data from Web sites, social networks, and other sources. I suspect there are indeed significant differences.

Lead Ranking 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2012

If there has been a change, it’s recognition that the company can’t build everything itself: hence the partnerships and app center, which use other developers’ products to extend SiteCore to other channels. The other important difference is decision rules. Maybe that’s a good compromise.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Indeed, it meets almost all the critieria listed above, including the most important one of building and maintaining a persistent customer database. The folks at idio didn’t necessarily agree with this judgment, and pointed to planned developments that could indeed change the verdict (more about that later).

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 2, 2012

KXEN has since given me a closer look at the lead scoring product, underlying technology, and future plans. The system does provide reports showing the contributions made to the scoring formula by different variables and by values within those variables. First for details on Predictive Lead Scoring itself.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Salesforce.com Automation Lead Scoring 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2011

Both events mark a continued expansion of their product. In both cases, what’s really happening is the vendor has published APIs that make it easier for other vendors to build products that integrate with their systems. Events and connectors make it easy to build a central database of customer behavior.

Hubspot 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 22, 2010

The main advantage is tight integration of database build, campaign management and message delivery. The more important clarification is that ClickSquared is a marketing services agency, offering database management, campaign development, creative, execution and analysis. Thus, in-house development is relatively more attractive.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Multi-Channel 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

Marketing automation vendors have adopted different strategies to deal with their problem, including making their systems easier to use, offering extensive training, and providing services to run the systems for their clients. After seven years of development, the company has about twenty clients.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Here are some observations - consumer marketers have to build databases; B2B marketers don’t. You can file this under “things so obvious that it feels stupid to even mention them”, but it’s still an important difference. But the total costs are still higher because someone has to build and maintain the underlying database. -

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It seemed briefly that marketing technology would be different, largely because cloud-based systems make integration so much easier than before. I’ve seen several recent announcements related to the idea that marketers and non-technical users in other departments will develop their own systems using varying types of advanced technology.

Marketing AI 149

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The question comes up because nearly every customer management system builds its own customer database, which is one core function of a CDP. Where it differs from most CDPs is the underlying technology. Of course, most marketers couldn’t care less about this difference.

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Ideal Customer Profiles Analytics Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. This is the standard approach among marketing automation products – as Optify says on its Web site, “We know you already have a website and a favorite marketing CMS.” Reporting is a particular strength.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Small Business Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 5, 2011

I agree that it's radically different: it works without a central marketing database and tracks customer states rather than assigning them to campaigns. Previous products include Verbind (later purchased by SAS ), Elity (eventually owned by Unica ), and Harte-Hanks Allink Agent (still around in some form). Some perspective is in order.

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 23, 2011

Summary : Infusionsoft is making it easier to build campaigns and taken a new approach to helping clients plan their marketing programs. Users still need to build the initial Web form and put copy into all the blank emails. Marketing automation for micro-businesses is fundamentally different from marketing automation for larger firms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I wrote yesterday about building a requirements document to define the features you'll look for. It’s true that marketing automation is pretty similar across different industries, but each still has its nuances. A vendor needs resources to enhance its product and adapt to unexpected developments.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

If the big question on the mind of the marketing automation industry has been whether Salesforce would launch its own product, the show provided what I consider to be a definitive answer: No (at least for now; never say never). That said, there’s a difference between a clear strategy and a successful strategy.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

This is critical in large organizations, where regional and product groups may be responsible for different market segments and where users will have different functional specialties and approval authorities. available to different user groups. available to different user groups. It seems that Marketo disagrees.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

It includes more sophisticated features for working within social media platforms, such as delivering forms and personalized ads within Facebook, using social sign-on to capture more data, and building more detailed profiles based on activities, consumption, connections and influence. Benchmarks.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2009

SiSense PrismCubed, officially launched this past August, is another member of the growing set of business intelligence systems aimed at empowering business analysts to build their own applications. But unlike business-analyst data manipulation, those capabilities are also found in other business intelligence products.

Business 120

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