Quiq uses conversational AI to run chatbots and guide human agents. They offer a messaging-based shopping cart, which you may not have known you needed. And they just raised a $12.5 million Series B, bringing total funding to $19 million.
The CDP industry continued its rapid growth and even more rapid evolution, according to the latest semi-annual Industry Update from the CDP Institute. Record funding, expansion outside the U.S., and a new class of “operational” CDP vendors were just part of the excitement. You can imagine the rest or download the report.
SugarCRM is also touting unified data, in the form of its new “Intelligent Customer Experience platform, which unifies disparate data into a single ‘time aware’ customer data model.” It just announced platform-based applications for marketing automation, sales automation, and customer service and will likely add others in the future. They don’t call their platform a CDP although it might qualify.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.