Datorama has integrated with LiveRamp IdentityLink for cross-device customer tracking, which will improve the accuracy of Datorama’s campaign targeting and analytics. Datorama qualifies as a CDP but their primary focus is ad performance measurement.
Axway today announced AMPLIFY, a new data integration and engagement platform. It exposes separate data sources as API-enabled services. It is also introducing a marketplace of prebuilt services and templates to speed application development drawing on the exposed data. Axway started in 2001 as a rules engine and evolved to focus on API-enabled data integration. Its technology is used by more than 11,000 organizations worldwide. Not a CDP because it doesn’t create a unified, persistent database. But API integration does a partial set of CDP capabilities.
Here’s another non-marketing use for customer data: in this case, providing intelligent advice to sales people. PROS offers cloud-based solutions to help with product recommendations, pricing, and deal management; it can advise human agents or feed directly into Web sites. And it uses “advanced data science”…but then again, nowadays, who doesn’t?
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.