You also have little interest in security or access management, but those are important too. So I’ll mention that access management vendor CyberArk is spending $70 million to buy Idaptive, which uses AI to identify questionable access requests.
There’s a ton of good information in this just-released State of Marketing report from Salesforce. The headline from a CDP view is that high-performing marketers listed CDP as the second-most commonly used technology while CDP ranked fifth for moderate performers and sixth for underperformers. They survey doesn’t show how many actually have a CDP but 38% of the total and 48% of high performers said they plan to use it more next year.
Facebook isn’t just for consumer marketers: it’s the most widely used channel and most effective lead generator for B2B marketers, reports B2B agency Wpromote. Their survey, taken in February, found for the first time that more B2B digital marketers started the year intending to focus on brand awareness (31%) than quality leads (25%). Wpromote thinks the pandemic reinforces that priority but they also report that 49% of marketers now expect a budget cut, compared with just 13% in February.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.