Chatbot vendor Aivo has a more positive view of AI’s results, reporting that its clients found chatbots could resolve 65% of e-commerce customer inquiries. It found most questions were requests for information not found on a company’s Web site, which chatbots were good at providing. Download for interesting details on chatbot deployment.
Spent yesterday binge-watching Battlestar Galactica again? We won’t judge. We will let you know that Salesforce announced a $15.7 billion stock deal to buy data visualization platform Tableau. The goal is less to improve analytics within Salesforce than to drive continued revenue growth by tapping into the general ‘digital transformation’ market. Tableau will continue to operate as an independent company.
A few CDP users really care where their system is hosted. The rest are more likely to be interested that Criteo lists a dozen CDP vendors as partners in its Global Audience program. The new program will make it easier for marketers to match their customers against Criteo’s audiences, which can then be used to target ads at the customers across digital ad channels.
It’s all surveys today, Dear Reader. Marigold reports that consumers are eager for personalized content, with 79% saying they’re likely to engage with a personalized email tailored to their interests. Sadly, 33% feel their needs are unmet by current brand messages. Discounts and coupons (95%) top the list of what they want in exchange for personal data, followed closely by loyalty rewards at 94%. Content is last at 61%.