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Progress DataDirect Eases Access to Coud and On-Premises Data

Speaking of data connections, Progress recently announced “the first vendor-agnostic hybrid connector that provides secure firewall-friendly access to back-office data from any cloud, independent of vendor or technology.” I’m pairing this with the Axway item to reinforce that there are, in fact, many data connection options out there. I’m discussing data connections in general to make broader points: all the data you need won’t necessarily be copied into your internal marketing database and data integration needs extend beyond marketing.

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Dataiku Raises $14 Million for Its Predictive Application Development Platform

November 2, 2016

Dataiku has received a $14 million Series A investment to expand its integrated predictive application development platform. The system combines data ingestion, preparation, analysis, visualization, workflow, predictive analytics, collaboration, and deployment. It works on several big data platforms and runs primarily in-house. This is a generic system, not specifically for marketing. But it illustrates the continued maturation of the technologies that underlie CDPs.

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Martech Spending Grows as Percentage of Marketing Budget: CMO Survey

April 26, 2024

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.

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