Next, news that data access vendor Dremio has raised a $30 million Series B. Dremio lets analytical systems issue SQL queries to SQL and NoSQL source data without moving it into a separate CDP-style database. It’s important to recognize that many solutions overlap to some degree with CDP capabilities and to understand how they differ.
Here’s a scary statistic: 66% of Americans think their Internet Service Provider is selling their behavioral data to advertisers. Three-quarters think the government has access to it. I’m pretty sure neither statement is correct, so this shows a truly frightening combination of ignorance and paranoia blocking a reasoned discussion on these topics. The data comes from Open Garden, which is working on a bandwidth sharing alternative to conventional ISPs.
This is a complicated item: Cloudera (data science platform), Qlik (business intelligence), and Trifacta (data wrangling) have been combined by business analytics vendor Bardess to create a packaged data management solution sold on the Microsoft Azure marketplace. It’s called Customer 360 Powered by Zero2Hero, a name that doesn’t explain much but does hint that customer data unification is part of the deal. Expect more examples of general-purpose data management technology acting as a CDP.
CDP and marketing automation platform Bloomreach announced the availability of a next generation version of Bloomreach Engagement. Deploying Bloomreach’s Loomi AI capabilities, campaign creation within Bloomreach Engagement will become something “one marketer can complete in minutes.” Campaigns can be scaled across fifteen-plus channels.