I know what you like and today’s newsletter isn’t it. But I consider these topics important. Let’s start with automated data management – something that should matter to CDP vendors and buyers alike, since it reduces the cost of building and managing a unified, persistent customer database. Datometry, which specializes in this sort of thing, has announced an automated data warehouse schema synthesizer. That makes it easier to move data warehouses to the cloud.

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We have a full basket of retail news today, Dear Reader.  First up is NielsenIQ, which just launched a solution to help retailers run their own media networks with tools to build targeted audiences, manage ads and offers, and measure results.  The same tools would probably support retailers’ own promotions, but retail media networks are a much hotter topic right now.