Synthio, formerly Social123, started as a compiler of public B2B data but now positions itself as a Customer Data Platform. That’s not as big a stretch as it might seem, since the technology to gather, clean, and unify public data can also be applied to merging a company’s own data. They just announced a $10.5 million funding, more than doubling the $8 million raised in earlier rounds.
CDP SessionM has expanded its Salesforce integration to incorporate Marketing, Commerce, and Service clouds. The AppExchange app loads Salesforce data, adds predictive model scores, metrics, and recommendations, and exposes the results to Salesforce components. Some other CDPs are listed on AppExchange but it’s quite rare.
Closer to home, networking organization Spiceworks found that 26% of B2B tech marketers expect to look for a new job in the next twelve months. Millennials were most likely to be planning a switch. Further reinforcing everyone’s favorite stereotypes, Millennials were most skilled at social media and least skilled at writing, GenX marketers were best at data analysis, and Baby Boomers were strongest at email and influencer marketing.
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.