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Why Are There So Many Types of Customer Data Platforms? It's Complicated.

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I spend much of my time these days trying to explain Customer Data Platforms to people who suspect a CDP could help them but lack clear understanding of exactly what a CDP can do. I’ve for years divided customer management systems into three broad categories, which are best seen as layers in a unified architecture.

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Will GDPR Hurt Customer Data Platforms and the Marketers Who Use Them?

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Like an imminent hanging, the looming execution of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has concentrated business leaders’ minds on their customer data. This has been a boon for Customer Data Platform vendors, who have been able to offer their systems as solutions to many GDPR requirements.

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Dueling Strategies: Adobe and Oracle Take Opposite Paths to Customer Experience Management

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Adobe on Monday announced a new “ Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management ”. Adobe describes its scope as nothing less than optimizing customer experience and marketing spend across the entire customer journey, from first learning about a company through validation, purchase decision, product use, and commitment.

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SAS by the Sip: SAS Viya Offers Open APIs to Individual Services in the Cloud

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This provided a steady income stream and focused attention on customer satisfaction to ensure renewals. SAS’s growth and financial performance have been just fine despite the new competition, thanks to technical leadership in its core analytical products and pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands loyalty of its core customers.

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Model Factory from Modern Analytics Offers High Scale Preditive Modeling for Marketers

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Can free toasters* and a loyalty card be far behind? Model Factory starts by importing data in known structures, so users still need to set up the initial inputs and do things like associate customer identities from different systems. Banks used to give away free toasters to attract new customers. The "how" is more complicated.

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Salesforce Buys Datorama Customer Data Platform: It's Complicated

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They do meet the requirements – packaged software building a unified, persistent customer database that’s open to other systems – but are definitely an outlier. In particular, Datorama ingests all types of marketing-related data, notably including ad campaign- and segment-level performance information as well as customer-level detail.

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Boxever Puts Airline Data in Context for Better Passenger Experience

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Everyone loves a good origin story* and Boxever has a classic: the company started as system to recommend add-on purchases on airline booking sites but found that prospects lacked access to customer data, so it pivoted to build customer databases. Boxever’s foundation is the customer database. customers), sessions, and orders.