This LinkedIn report asked some questions whose answers should have been obvious, but turned out to be mixed.   Would you have expected that just 48% of B2B buyers won’t buy from sellers who offer misleading information, or that just 54% of sellers say sales tools help them close more deals?  In other words: half of buyers will purchase from sellers they know are dishonest and nearly half of sellers think sales tools don’t work.  Definitely unexpected.

“Headless CDP” is creeping up the buzz chart. Mostly it refers to CDP systems that build profiles and let external systems provide activation and other user functions. But “headless” could also describe CDP functions built into cloud data management systems like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. For example, Experian has just made its real-time address, email, and phone validation APIs available within the Azure Marketplace. This makes it just a bit easier to build a CDP-like database within Azure.

Amperity has launched its Customer Data Cloud, a solution designed to support the transformation of raw data in a warehouse or lake into usable business assets. New capabilities include real-time reaction to streaming customer data and no-copy access to customer data in Snowflake and AWS.