If marketers want to upgrade their customer experience, they will have to take a hard look at revamping their data analytics.
According to an Econsultancy and Adobe survey of client-side marketers worldwide, 65% of respondents said improving their data analysis is a very important factor in delivering a better customer experience. That was the most popular answer for the second year in a row, up from a 63% response rate in 2017.
https://www.emarketer.com/content/better-data-analysis-is-critical-to-improving-customer-experience/
Like an imminent hanging, the looming execution of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has concentrated business leaders’ minds on their customer data. This has been a boon for Customer Data Platform vendors, who have been able to offer their systems as solutions to many GDPR requirements. But it raises some issues as well.
https://customerthink.com/will-gdpr-hurt-customer-data-platforms-and-the-marketers-who-use-them/