You haven’t been very interested in generic data management technology, Dear Reader. But it can supplement or compete with a CDP. Therefore: self-service data preparation vendor Paxata has been purchased by self-service machine learning vendor DataRobot. The deal will make it easier to prepare training data – a common role for a CDP.
Let’s focus on B2B marketing today. We have a very interesting report on Request for Proposal (RFP) management from Loopio. Are you surprised that RFPs account for 27% of software sales revenue vs 41% across all industries? More here on RFP challenges, timelines, and the age-old question: How many SMEs does it take to answer an RFP?
Sticking with data management: natural language processing vendor Luminoso has launched the next generation of its product, QuickLearn 2.0 QuickLearn’s special skill is automatically learning domain-specific terminology without training, setup, or ontology-building. This allows much faster deployment than conventional methods. The trick is the system is already trained on general language processing using text from the Web.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.