This survey by Aberdeen for Reltio is three-kitten irresistible since it measures the value of unified customer data. TLDR: companies with unified customer data are more successful than the rest in oh so many ways. Download for deets.
Account-based marketing platform 6sense makes no claim to galactic dominance, but its home page headline “Know everything so you can do anything” carries its own whiff of excess. Returning to reality, they just bought Fortella, which offers pipeline planning, forecasting and measurement tools. Readers with a long memory or Crunchbase account will recall that 6sense bought B2B CDP ZenIQ back in 2018.
It’s a potpourri today, Dear Reader. Here’s news that rockstar martech investors Vista Equity Partners have purchased a majority stake in conversational commerce vendor Drift, reportedly at a $1 billion-plus valuation. Details weren’t announced but I guess we can’t call Drift a chatbot vendor anymore.
Cloud database Snowflake has launched the Media Data Cloud, a collection of advertising and customer data-related services that include first party identity resolution from Experian, data clean room from Habu, AI-based insights from DataRobot, privacy solutions from LTI, and Unified IS 2.0 and data activation from The Trade Desk. What’s special is these can all execute within Snowflake. Previously, users would have needed to export the data from Snowflake, process it, and re-import the results.