🚀 New Research Alert: Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) in B2C Markets Customer experience (CX) isn't just a differentiator, it's the driver for customer growth, outcomes and long-term satisfaction. Consumers expect personalized interactions inspired by their experiences with digital-first brands. Meeting these demands means brands of all stripes in B2C markets must unify, enrich, activate, and govern customer data like never before. In my latest research, the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Customer Data Platforms Focused on B2C Users 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment, we (along with Gerry Murray) delve into shifts shaping the CDP market and ranking of 18 different vendors. Key Takeaways: CDPs are no longer just about aggregating data. They're enabling real-time, omnichannel customer journeys using AI that foster loyalty and engagement across industries like retail, travel, and hospitality. Vendors are enhancing UI/UX, GenAI capabilities, and data integration with customer, engagement and transactional data to support both technical and non-technical users, from marketers to data scientists. The focus on outcomes is growing — organizations need to evaluate which data sources, events, attributes, and profiles drive the most impact and effectively used or not. What’s next for CDPs? As consumers demand transparency and personalization, and macroeconomic pressures persist, the ability to measure value from customer data across marketing and non-marketing use cases, alignment of CDP technology with overall data, AI and CX strategies, having an modular, open architecture, and data and AI governance will separate leaders from the rest. IDC Clients can access the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dZvtNE8p #CDP #CustomerExperience #CX #DataDrivenAI #AI #customerdataplatforms #martech #CDPs #customerdata #personalization #customerengagement #generativeai #customerjourneys Acquia, ActionIQ, Adobe, Amperity, Epsilon, HCLSoftware, Insider., mParticle, Optimove, Oracle, Redpoint Global Inc., Salesforce, SAP, SAS, Treasure Data, Tealium, Segment(Twilio), Zeta Global
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Research Director at IDC leading global digital commerce strategy
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