B2B marketers have lagged B2C in adopting Customer Data Platforms, in part because many assumed all the relevant data is in their CRM system. But as B2B martech systems proliferate, there’s growing demand for systems to merge CRM data with data from other sources. One beneficiary is Openprise, which merges data from Salesforce.com and marketing automation products. They’ve just launched their product on the Salesforce AppExchange.

It’s a slow news day. So here’s a good piece from Adweek about brand marketers building their own audience databases so they are less reliant on Google and Facebook. It’s a core CDP use case. The author works for cross-device identity solution Drawbridge.

Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.