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Retail Tech Leaders Outperform Laggards: NSU Technologies and Software AG

An even broader study that NSU Technologies ran for Software AG found that retailers who lead in adopting digital technologies had a six percent annual growth rate over three years, while laggards’ revenue was flat. Early adopters also had nearly twice the price-earnings ratio as the others: 22.32 vs 12.22. The survey provides lots of details about strategy, governance, deployments, business impact and technology. Good stuff but beware that the answers reflect an IT department viewpoint. Dead giveaway: 0% reported that business perceives IT as slow and inflexible.

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Adobe Buys Marketo for $4.75 Billion

September 21, 2018

It’s hard to imagine that anyone who reads this newsletter hasn’t already heard, but Adobe announced an agreement yesterday to purchase B2B marketing automation vendor Marketo for $4.75 billion. Seller was Vista Equity Partners, which bought Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 billion. Adobe gets 5,000 customers in B2B marketing, where it has had little presence. Adobe comments suggest Marketo will stay separate from Campaign, Adobe’s B2C marketing automation system.

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CDP Industry is Growing Again: CDP Institute

July 10, 2025

With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).

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