Why CDP’s didn’t live up to their promise — Sylvain Giuliani // Census

Sylvain Giuliani, Head of Growth and Operations at Census, talks about why CDPs fail. Initially, CDPs were meant to house large amounts of customer data and provide a unified view of customers by integrating data from different sources. However, some organizations have faced challenges with data accuracy and difficulty integrating with other systems which have impacted the ability of CDPs to fully deliver on their promise. Today, Sylvain discusses why CDPs didn't live up to their promise.
About the speaker

Sylvain Giuliani

Census

 - Census

Sylvain is the Head of Growth and Operations at Census

Show Notes

  • 02:24
    Why CDPs didnt live up to their promise
    CDPs struggled to deliver a complete customer profile due to complex data ingestion and identity resolution. This resulted in data reports that conflicted with the data team and led to CDPs becoming just another untrustworthy data silo.
  • 05:52
    How CDPs have revolutionized data collection for marketing teams
    About five or six years ago, it was difficult for marketing teams to know what people were doing on their websites or in their apps. However, CDPs made it easier for marketing teams to collect data on their website and app interactions.
  • 07:46
    The advantages of data warehouses over CDPs
    CDPs originally aimed to store large amounts of customer data and make it easily queryable. However, data warehouses have dedicated data engineers who validate, clean, and transform the data, making it highly accurate for decision-making.
  • 10:50
    The user friendliness of CDPs vs data warehouses
    Data warehouses are still primarily designed for data engineers and not necessarily for the marketing team. However, new tools are emerging to make data warehouses more user-friendly for non-technical users through a drag-and-drop interface and a no-code approach.

Quotes

  • "Every type of business has different needs. And, the only thing that every CDP has in common is defining a customer 360 profile." -Sylvain Giuliani, Growth & Operations Head, Census

  • "If you rewind five, six years ago, it was a technological challenge for marketing teams to know what people were doing on their website and in their app. CDPs made this problem go away." -Sylvain Giuliani, Growth & Operations Head, Census

  • "What we're seeing nowadays, whether with Census or others, are lots of tools coming into the market to abstract the warehouse to make it non-technical people friendly." -Sylvain Giuliani, Growth & Operations Head, Census

About the speaker

Sylvain Giuliani

Census

 - Census

Sylvain is the Head of Growth and Operations at Census

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