Namogoo describes its latest release as the “first-ever” “Customer Journey Operating System”. That’s a tough claim to judge, but we do know the system automatically collects public data about site visitors, adds the company’s own data, and uses the result to analyze customer journeys and find opportunities for intent-driven promotions. I won’t make fun of Namogoo’s name, since two readers politely informed me today that what I called the “obscure” word “Gupshup” is understood to mean “chit-chat” by over a half-billion speakers of Hindi and Urdu.

Salesforce has announced a bundle of CDP enhancements, including abilities to capture and react to near-real-time events, to retain data from anonymous profiles when customers identify themselves, and to use AI-based fuzzy matching for identity resolution.   They’ve also renamed several products, including their Salesforce CDP (now “Customer Data Platform”) and Datorama (now simply “Intelligence”).  They announced a lot of non-CDP news but who reads that?

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.