Let’s finish with this Cyara survey, which found that most digital transformation initiatives run behind schedule, many have no clear owner and most senior managers overstate success.  To quote directly, “90% of business owners and 75% of managing directors vs. 38% of department heads and 35% at the manager level [are] describing their digital transformation initiatives as ‘very successful.’”  Want more?  They say it’s a bad idea to run the project without involving the IT department.

CDP Simon Data is moving from profile building into data activation with a new cross-channel journey builder and email platform, and expanded predictive modeling.  The company also announced new APIs for audience selection and real-time content access.  They’re all closely integrated with customer profiles in Simon’s CDP.

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.