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Salesforce Buys Evergage But Not For CDP

Customer Experience Matrix

Events in the past six months (stretching a bit to include early January 2020) include seven new funding rounds, three acquisitions of CDP vendors, four acquisitions by CDP vendors, and four asset sales by CDP companies. What’s particularly intriguing is the industry position of the firms in these deals.

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How Lego Bocks Explain Why Bloomreach Bought Exponea

Customer Experience Matrix

It also recalls other recent CDP acquisitions including Acquia buying AgilOne, Chapsvision buying NP6, SAP buying Emarsys, and Wunderkind buying SmarterHQ. Of course, the biggest CDP acquisition of all, Twilio’s purchase of Segment, doesn’t fit this mold. Simply put, the vendors assembling these suites are betting that vision is wrong.

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2018 Was a Great Year for Customer Data Platforms

Customer Experience Matrix

The industry added 29 vendors and 2,653 employees, slightly more than the 26 vendors and 2,233 employees added in 2017. Vendor funding increased $568 million in 2018 vs $492 million in 2017. But the smooth growth hides some interesting twists. And increased competition from non-CDP vendors is clearly on the horizon.

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Nine Important Things to Know About Intent Data and AI

Webbiquity

The value proposition of intent data vendors is typically that will combine their data (which is third-party data from your perspective) with your website analytics data (your first-party data) to identify companies that are actively looking to buy what it is you sell, and where they are in the buying process. It’s Not for Everyone.

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Your Guide to Choosing a B2B Data Provider

Zoominfo

This engagement activity suggests interest or demand from an audience that they want to purchase a product or service. With data like promotions, mergers and acquisitions, product launches, and funding, opportunity data gives users opportunities to create new business. The vendor should be able (and willing) to provide specifics.

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What's Next for the CDP Industry?

Customer Experience Matrix

It took some time for the vendors to realize that the database itself was ultimately more valuable than any one application, because the database was more central to their clients’ needs. But a more realistic explanation is that clients are always asking for new features and vendors are eager to oblige.

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The B2B case for retention marketing: 7 key tactics

Martech

B2B retention marketing finally has its day For as long as I’ve been in B2B marketing (don’t ask), lead generation and new-account acquisition have been the top priority for marketers. Penetration marketing Viewing customer acquisition as an expense or an investment, it follows that profitability emerges only with customer retention.

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