— By Apoorv Durga —-
With the deprecation of third-party cookies looming large and data privacy and compliance taking center stage, enterprises have had to adapt their customer data strategies substantially. Many are exploring various approaches, with data clean rooms (DCRs) emerging as a prominent option. What are data clean rooms? A data clean room… This post first … Read more
The advent of cloud-based data warehouses (DWHs) has brought simpler deployment, greater scale and better performance to a growing set of data-driven use cases. DWHs have become more prevalent in enterprise tech stacks, including martech stacks. Inevitably, this begs the question: should you employ your existing DWH as a customer… This post first … Read more
Any customer data platform (CDP) must nestle nicely into your martech stack, including your customer data ecosystem. Like many architectural choices, you face few absolute rights and wrongs here, but you have options worth considering. At Real Story Group, we’ve seen three broad approaches, including variants of each: Licensing a… This post first … Read more
Clearly there’s a gap between what vendors think is a DXP and how enterprise digital managers look at this space. I examine this further on CMSWire. This post first appeared here: Goodbye DXPs, Hello Composable Stacks.
“Build versus buy” in the context of technology marketplaces is a long-running debate. At Real Story Group, we see this debate getting revisited for marketing tech stacks, particularly for customer data platforms (CDPs). Is there a single right approach? I don’t think so, but the details matter here. So let’s dig… This post first … Read more
In part 1 of this 3-part series, I explored different options seating personalization capabilities in a larger marketing technology stack context. In part 2 of the series, I looked at different platform components required for building a holistic personalization technology strategy. In this concluding part 3, let’s explore some canonical scenarios that you can… This post first … Read more
In part one of this three-part series, I explained different options regarding where to seat functional personalization capabilities in your overal marketing technology stack. In this follow-up, I’ll explore different platform components required for building a holistic personalization technology strategy. The key premise is that omnichannel personalization requires several related capabilities across a… This post first appeared on … Read more
A common question is: Where Should Personalization Reside in your MarTech stack? Should it be in your CMS/WCM so you can personalize content? Should it be a part of your marketing automation so you can send personalized communication? Or should it reside in Ecommerce systems, so you can generate personalized shopping recommendations? Or maybe everywhere? … Read more
Treasure Data released an interesting report, NGDATA announced a new partner program and Bloomreach acquired Exponea. Lot’s happening but let’s start with the Treasure Data report first. New Trend? A recent report by CDP vendor Treasure Data found out that 59% of respondents will invest in a new CDP in 2021. Of these, 33% will prefer an … Read more
Some interesting news this week. Salesforce has introduced a Loyalty Management offering as part of their “Marketing Cloud”. Customer 360 Audiences, their Customer Data Platform (CDP) is also a part of same Cloud. (The offering will be generally available later this year). Earlier, in 2020, MasterCard acquired SessionM (CDP + Loyalty) and Oracle acquired CrowdTwist … Read more