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Connecthings Launches Location-Based Marketing Platform

Location platform Connecthings has launched Herow, which lets app developers create campaigns based on information about physical sites, precise tracking of mobile device user movements, and local conditions such as weather and traffic. The company also released a survey of mobile users that found their current apps get their location wrong 40% of the time, that 60% want mobile experiences customized to personal desires and location, and 72% don’t want their data shared with third parties.

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Reltio to Support Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft and SAP Despite Reservations

October 5, 2018

Let’s skip today’s product news, which is all pretty minor. Instead, here’s Reltio, a Master Data Management vendor that also qualifies as a CDP, announcing they’ll support Salesforce Customer 360 and the Open Data Initiative from Adobe, Microsoft and Salesforce. As if they had a choice. I liked how clear they made their real opinion of those approaches: “Common IDs and tight coupling of apps can solve some immediate problems, but in the long run still create new islands of data that ultimately spell trouble for customer 360 initiatives.”

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Compliance Is Primary Focus of Corporate IT: ASG CIO Survey

October 3, 2018

Switching to internal data, a study from data governance vendor ASG Technologies finds that half of CIOs report all or most of their data management initiatives are focused on compliance. In other words, if marketers get their feeling their data needs are not top priority, they’re probably right. The study also reported that 81% of IT teams use enterprise data compared with just 63% of marketing teams. It’s plausible that many marketing teams use only non-enterprise data but what, exactly, are those 19% of IT teams working with?

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Twilio Announces Unified Profiles Powered by Segment

March 28, 2024

Twilio has announced two innovations within Twilio Flex, its digital engagement platform. The first, Unified Profiles, will be powered by Segment and allow businesses to collect and activate real-time consented data. This is the first of three launches set for 2024 that will embed Segment in Twilio Communication products. The second innovation is Agent Copilot which will allow users to deploy AI across this data to boost productivity.

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