If you think it’s hard to measure the value of data privacy, try measuring the value of good customer experience. According to survey vendor Confirmit, just 20% of companies do well at measuring the Return on Investment of their customer experience programs. Poor data integration and low management support were the biggest roadblocks to CX success.
Lots of real news today. Start with a $2.4 billion acquisition by SAP of Callidus Software, which offers cloud-based sales performance management and configure-price-quote systems. Readers of a certain age will recall that Callidus bought early B2B marketing automation vendor LeadFormix back in 2012. The deal beefs up SAP’s sales automation products.
Whatever kind of system you’re thinking about buying, Nucleus Research has a gift for you: a free copy of their 268-page 2018 Enterprise Technology Buyers Guide. This provides sector overviews and individual vendor assessments for CRM, Marketing Automation, Analytics, Enterprise Content Management, and seven other categories. CDP isn’t included, alas. Separately, and also free, they’ve published ‘State of the Market’ reports on several categories including CRM and Analytics Great stuff. Did I mention free?
Customer intelligence platform Acxiom will collaborate with ActionIQ to deliver enhanced customer insights. ActionIQ’s CDP will integrate with Acxiom’s demographic, household, behavioral and preference data and with Acxiom’s RealID identity resolution solution. Acxiom experts will work with clients to customize and streamline ActionIQ.