Manthan bills itself as “the global leader in analytics and big data”, which may come as a surprise to a few folks like IBM and SAS. And its current announcement of tighter integration with the NCR AMS offer management solution, isn’t exactly earth shattering. But Manthan does create a unified customer view to support its advanced analytics, and machine-learning-based recommendations. So it’s definitely relevant to customer data platform issues if you’re in retail.

Let’s imagine that just maybe you have better ways to spend your time than data prep.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.