Customer Experience Matrix

article thumbnail

Send in the Clouds: Martech Moves to Cloud Platforms

Customer Experience Matrix

This followed the previous week’s rumor that Google-parent Alphabet is consideringan offer for Salesforce-competitor HubSpot , and came the same week as a slew of partnership announcements tied to Snowflake’s Marketing Data Cloud Forum. Cloud database vendors including Google and Snowflake are expanding into marketing applications.

article thumbnail

The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. intended to extend Google’s own business).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Tableau, Looker, and Origami Logic Acquisitions Show Analytics Is In Fashion

Customer Experience Matrix

By that measure, the purchases of data analytics vendors Looker by Google , Tableau by Salesforce , and Origami Logic by Intuit within a three week span must signify something. Indeed, Looker already runs on Google Cloud. So Looker is adding another layer of value to Google Cloud, letting it meet more needs of its existing clients.

article thumbnail

Where Do Low-Code and No-Code Fit in the Build vs Buy Debate?

Customer Experience Matrix

I thought it might be my imagination, but Google Trends confirms that “build vs buy” really is coming up more often these days that it had in recent years. I can’t really say the Google Trend data bear this out, since the dip in build vs buy interest happened after the initial growth in low-code development.

article thumbnail

MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

Customer Experience Matrix

walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. None of these has the data depth or scale of Facebook, Google, or Amazon but their audiences are big enough to be interesting. shoppable video is growing rapidly.

article thumbnail

BadTech Is the Next New Thing

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m referring to is the backlash against big tech firms – Google, Amazon, Apple, and above all Facebook – that have relentlessly expanded their influence on everyday life. The past month alone offers plenty of news to alarm consumers: Google tracks location even after users turn off Location Sharing. The next big thing is BadTech.

article thumbnail

Not the CDP Daily News

Customer Experience Matrix

June 19, 2018 Google Invests $550 Million in Chinese E-Commerce Merchant JD.com Source: GlobalNewswire Just in case you had doubts that Google is serious about competing with Amazon in retail, consider this: Google just invested $550 million in Chinese e-commerce merchant JD.com.