ClearStory Data announced new capabilities for “automated smart data discovery”, which makes it easier to find patterns in business data. ClearStory’s focus is data analysis, but it also automates data preparation and unification. So we’re back on CDP turf. Spark is once again listed as a key technology.
You probably don’t care that the Looker data analysis platform just announced connectors to load data from AdWords, YouTube, and DoubleClick into the Google BigQuery data store. Neither do I. But it’s an excuse to note that Looker and similar products are NOT substitutes for CDPs because they don’t unify customer identities when inputs lack a shared customer identifier. It’s an easy distinction to miss, and one that probably leads quite a few people down quite a few dead ends. Consider yourself warned.
The CDP Institute recently asked several senior IT managers for their opinions on Customer Data Platforms. They had a number of objections that deserve to be taken seriously. Read more on our blog.
“Ask Meta AI anything” is what you now see instead of the traditional search bar across Meta apps such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta AI will still perform the basic search function but will also answer questions and chat with you. It should hardly be a surprise when a tech company launches a genAI solution these days but this is a bold challenge to Google and Open.ai (it’s also available as a standalone tool at Meta.ai).