Customer analytics vendor Fospha has purchased customer data platform and journey manager iJento to create unified offering. Both firms are in the portfolio of technology investment firm Blenheim Chalcot, which purchased iJento in March 2016.
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?
CDP and data solutions provider Zeotap is adding the ID5 ID to its identity graph. The ID5 identifier supports individual-level programmatic ad targeting without relying on third-party cookies, extending the reach of Zeotap ad segments.