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Deploying a scalable multi-region and multi-brand CDP with Hightouch.

Nov 19

Deploying a scalable multi-region and multi-brand CDP with Hightouch

Traditional CDPs require multiple instances for different regions and brands, but Hightouch offers a streamlined solution by leveraging your existing data warehouse for data management and governance.

Your ActionIQ escape plan.
Nov 18

Your ActionIQ escape plan

Having trouble getting value from ActionIQ? Get unstuck: this guide gives you an exit strategy.

Checkmate: the power of AI Decisioning in marketing.
Oct 23

Checkmate: the power of AI Decisioning in marketing

A new wave of AI is mastering marketing’s infinite game

The hunt for a CDP that’s actually “zero-copy”.
Sep 12

The hunt for a CDP that’s actually “zero-copy”

Salesforce Data Cloud falls far short of its promise to use your data without copying it.

Why a traditional CDP couldn’t handle our subscription data at FabFitFun.
Sep 10

Why a traditional CDP couldn’t handle our subscription data at FabFitFun

Traditional CDPs don't cut it for subscription businesses. Here's why we chose Hightouch.

Why we transitioned to Hightouch at WeightWatchers.
Sep 10

Why we transitioned to Hightouch at WeightWatchers

For years, we relied on a legacy data onboarding tool. Recently, we migrated to Hightouch and saw huge improvements for a fraction of the cost. Here's everything I learned...

Maximizing reach while minimizing risk: improvements to Customer Studio.
Sep 5

Maximizing reach while minimizing risk: improvements to Customer Studio

We’ve made audience creation in Customer Studio more powerful and precise with new options and data governance features.

Real-time in the Composable CDP.
Sep 4

Real-time in the Composable CDP

Competitors claim that Composable CDPs can’t solve real-time use cases. It’s time to bust that myth.

Salesforce Audience Studio (retirement & replacements).
Jul 31

Salesforce Audience Studio (retirement & replacements)

Salesforce Audio Studio is no more, so what are the alternatives?

Adobe Audience Manager (retirement & replacements).
Jul 31

Adobe Audience Manager (retirement & replacements)

Should you wait for Adobe Audience Manager to be retired, or should you start exploring alternatives now?

What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)? .
Jul 9

What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)?

A guide to understanding Customer Data Platforms (CDPs).

What is Salesforce Data Cloud?.
Jul 9

What is Salesforce Data Cloud?

Is Salesforce Data Cloud a viable option for customer data use cases? Should you buy it?

Get out of data jail: break free from Adobe and Salesforce’s data platforms.
Jun 26

Get out of data jail: break free from Adobe and Salesforce’s data platforms

Adobe and Salesforce want you to pay big bucks for their data platforms. Your data warehouse is a better solution.

The ultimate guide to audience managers.
Jun 24

The ultimate guide to audience managers

Learn why marketers use audience managers to personalize their marketing campaigns.

The ultimate guide to journey builders.
Jun 24

The ultimate guide to journey builders

Learn why journey builders are the secret to creating great marketing campaigns.

The best Treasure Data alternatives and competitors.
May 24

The best Treasure Data alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to Treasure Data.

Feature spotlight: building journeys in Hightouch.
May 22

Feature spotlight: building journeys in Hightouch

Marketers use Hightouch to build flexible, cross-channel journeys powered by all of their data.

The best ActionIQ alternatives and competitors.
May 16

The best ActionIQ alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to ActionIQ.

The Best mParticle alternatives and competitors.
May 1

The Best mParticle alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to mParticle.

No more silos: act on all your data with Hightouch and HubSpot.
Apr 24

No more silos: act on all your data with Hightouch and HubSpot

Take action on customer data insights and incorporate customer trends into every aspect of your go-to-market strategy by connecting Hightouch & HubSpot.

The best Adobe Real-Time CDP alternatives and competitors.
Apr 22

The best Adobe Real-Time CDP alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to Adobe Real-Time CDP.

The best Amperity alternatives and competitors.
Apr 18

The best Amperity alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to Amperity.

The best Salesforce Data Cloud alternatives and competitors.
Apr 17

The best Salesforce Data Cloud alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to Salesforce Data Cloud.

The top 10 enterprise CDPs.
Apr 8

The top 10 enterprise CDPs

Learn everything there is to know about the top 10 enterprise CDPs on the market today.

The best RudderStack alternatives and competitors.
Mar 28

The best RudderStack alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to RudderStack.

What is Simon Data?.
Mar 18

What is Simon Data?

Learn everything there is to know about Simon Data, including products, key features, real-time capabilities, and pros/cons.

What is Treasure Data CDP?.
Mar 18

What is Treasure Data CDP?

Learn everything there is to know about Treasure Data, including products, key features, real-time capabilities, and pros/cons.

CDP vs DMP: how are they different?.
Mar 18

CDP vs DMP: how are they different?

Learn the difference between CDPs and DMPs and how to use them to build and reach wider audiences for your marketing campaigns.

The best Simon Data alternatives and competitors.
Mar 6

The best Simon Data alternatives and competitors

Discover the best alternatives and competitors to Simon Data.

Dark Clouds: the broken promises of Salesforce CDP.
Feb 28

Dark Clouds: the broken promises of Salesforce CDP

Sales, Service, and Marketing Cloud are industry staples. Salesforce’s CDP is the wrong way to get data into them.

What is Amperity?.
Feb 26

What is Amperity?

Learn all about Amperity CDP, including: core features, capabilities, and product offerings.

What is Adobe CDP?.
Feb 26

What is Adobe CDP?

Learn all about Adobe CDP, including: core features, capabilities, and product offerings.

What CDPs got right–and wrong–about behavioral events.
Feb 14

What CDPs got right–and wrong–about behavioral events

Customer Data Platforms put themselves on the map with event collection and real-time event streaming. They’ve left room for improvement.

Introducing event streaming: sync data to tools in real-time.
Feb 14

Introducing event streaming: sync data to tools in real-time

It’s easier than ever to forward real-time behavioral event data directly to downstream destinations.

What is a MarTech stack (and how to build one)?.
Feb 12

What is a MarTech stack (and how to build one)?

Learn exactly what a MarTech stack is, how you can build one, and how it can bring efficiency to your business.

What is RudderStack?.
Feb 9

What is RudderStack?

Learn all about Rudderstack's core features, capabilities, and product features.

Rethinking the CDP with Chime.
Feb 6

Rethinking the CDP with Chime

Learn how Chime explores new ways to drive personalization at scale.

The Composable CDP for first-party data in Europe.
Jan 24

The Composable CDP for first-party data in Europe

A Customer Data Platform centered on the cloud data warehouse powers superior personalization while meeting stringent compliance requirements.

What is Reverse ETL? The definitive guide .
Jan 23

What is Reverse ETL? The definitive guide

Learn how Reverse ETL works, why it's different from traditional ETL, and how you can use it to activate your data.

What is mParticle?.
Jan 22

What is mParticle?

Learn all about mParticle's core features, capabilities, and product offerings.

Why Calendly switched to a Composable CDP for personalization and PLG with Hightouch.
Jan 9

Why Calendly switched to a Composable CDP for personalization and PLG with Hightouch

Our traditional CDP couldn’t handle the complex use cases we needed to solve for personalization, so we implemented a Composable CDP.

What is ActionIQ? .
Jan 8

What is ActionIQ?

Learn exactly what ActionIQ is, how it works, and whether or not you should leverage it as your CDP.

Is your CDP holding you back? Signs you should move on.
Jan 3

Is your CDP holding you back? Signs you should move on

Regardless of your past investments, Customer Data Platforms often fail to meet your needs. It may be time to explore a new approach.

The next big thing in MarTech with Scott Brinker.
Dec 15

The next big thing in MarTech with Scott Brinker

MarTech experts Scott Brinker, Juan Mendoza, and Tejas Manohar discuss the future of MarTech, the cloud data warehouse advantage, and more.

Traditional CDP vs. Composable CDP (what's the difference?).
Dec 11

Traditional CDP vs. Composable CDP (what's the difference?)

A tactical guide to understand the key differences in CDP architectures.

What is Salesforce CDP?.
Nov 13

What is Salesforce CDP?

Learn what Salesforce CDP is, how it works, and the key features within the platform.

What is Segment?.
Nov 13

What is Segment?

Learn all about Segment's core features, capabilities, and the various downsides to the platform.

How Snowflake became a $60 billion unicorn.
Oct 27

How Snowflake became a $60 billion unicorn

Learn how and why Snowflake became the most successful software IPO of all-time.

What is data onboarding?.
Oct 18

What is data onboarding?

Learn how you can leverage data onboarding to create a 360-degree of your customer to supercharge your marketing use cases.

Reverse ETL 2.0: streaming Is here.
Oct 16

Reverse ETL 2.0: streaming Is here

We’re launching a new way to sync data from the warehouse at lower latencies than ever before. Real-time data, here we come!

The complexity of CDPs: an interview with Lee Hammond.
Oct 12

The complexity of CDPs: an interview with Lee Hammond

Lee shares his experience dealing hands on with CDPs during his time working for Universal Music Group and discusses why companies are transitioning to a composable approach.

5 insider tricks to hack your CDP bill & save a small fortune.
Oct 4

5 insider tricks to hack your CDP bill & save a small fortune

With Q4 around the corner, we’re sharing some secrets to help slash your Customer Data Platform costs.

Why The Zebra chose a Composable CDP.
Oct 2

Why The Zebra chose a Composable CDP

We’re powering insurance policy marketing and advertising personalization directly from our data warehouse.

The evolution of MarTech: an interview with Austin Hay.
Oct 1

The evolution of MarTech: an interview with Austin Hay

Austin shares his perspective on the MarTech space and discusses how the Composable CDP is changing the way data and marketing teams work together.

7 myths about Composable CDPs, busted.
Sep 26

7 myths about Composable CDPs, busted

Everyone’s talking about Composable Customer Data Platforms. Here are some of the most common misconceptions we hear.

Splits: run omnichannel experiments from the warehouse.
Sep 26

Splits: run omnichannel experiments from the warehouse

Enable randomized, multivariate testing from the data warehouse across channels with our code-free tools.

Why Bol.com chose a Composable CDP.
Sep 15

Why Bol.com chose a Composable CDP

Leveraging first-party data for audience-based targeting in a cookieless world.

What is event tracking?.
Sep 13

What is event tracking?

Learn everything you need about event tracking and how you can leverage it to optimize your marketing channels.

Announcing Hightouch Events: event collection for the data warehouse.
Sep 6

Announcing Hightouch Events: event collection for the data warehouse

Hightouch Events allows companies to easily collect and load events into the warehouse to support analytics and the Composable CDP.

The top 5 identity resolution use cases.
Aug 28

The top 5 identity resolution use cases

Five identity resolution use cases to supercharge your business.

Identity resolution - why CDPs fall short.
Aug 15

Identity resolution - why CDPs fall short

Perform identity resolution directly in your data warehouse, not in a Customer Data Platform.

The best identity resolution tools .
Aug 9

The best identity resolution tools

What are the best options available on the market for identity resolution and where do they differentiate?

Is the Composable CDP bullsh*t?.
Aug 9

Is the Composable CDP bullsh*t?

Suddenly everyone and everything claims to be a Composable CDP. Let’s cut through the noise and call things what they are.

Customer 360 - what is it and why is it important?.
Aug 8

Customer 360 - what is it and why is it important?

The key to creating unified and actionable customer profiles.

Hightouch vs. Census: the key differences.
Aug 3

Hightouch vs. Census: the key differences

A comprehensive comparison of Hightouch and Census.

The B2B CDP.
Aug 2

The B2B CDP

How to overcome the unique data challenges of B2B marketing with a Composable CDP

Announcing Identity Resolution.
Jul 19

Announcing Identity Resolution

The warehouse-native identity resolution feature that MarTech teams have been looking for.

How to power personalization with dbt models.
Jul 18

How to power personalization with dbt models

Learn how you can leverage the Hightouch Personalization API to access your dbt models in real-time to power your most complex personalization use cases.

The Customer Data Platform built for conglomerates.
Jun 20

The Customer Data Platform built for conglomerates

How conglomerates can leverage a new generation of CDPs to create a virtuous cycles between individual brand autonomy and consolidation to drive value across the portfolio.

What is a Composable CDP?.
Jun 20

What is a Composable CDP?

Learn why Composable CDPs are seeing such rapid adoption, how they work, and why they're replacing traditional CDPs.

Planning for success: constructing a CDP use case roadmap.
Jun 12

Planning for success: constructing a CDP use case roadmap

Make a plan for the key use-cases that you need to accomplish with your Customer Data Platform implementation.

You don't need the Modern Data Stack to get sh*t done.
Jun 12

You don't need the Modern Data Stack to get sh*t done

Why it's time to refocus from the dream architecture to pragmatic solutions that quickly solve your business needs

The Customer Data Platform storage conundrum.
Jun 7

The Customer Data Platform storage conundrum

What is the most secure (and affordable) way to activate customer data at scale?

Essential Apps for Marketers: Hightouch & HubSpot.
Jun 6

Essential Apps for Marketers: Hightouch & HubSpot

Hightouch enables you to enrich HubSpot with customer data and transform your marketing.

What is identity resolution?.
May 30

What is identity resolution?

Learn how to create a 360-degree view of your customer by stitching user profiles together in your data warehouse.

A guide for evaluating Data Activation platforms.
May 22

A guide for evaluating Data Activation platforms

A simple framework to evaluating and testing Data Activation platforms to ensure successful implementation.

The best Reverse ETL tools.
May 1

The best Reverse ETL tools

Choose which Reverse ETL tool is the best for your use case with this detailed breakdown of the industry leaders.

Saving $1M in marketing spend with a Composable CDP powered by Hightouch.
Apr 10

Saving $1M in marketing spend with a Composable CDP powered by Hightouch

Learn how IntelyCare drives rapid experimentation and omnichannel personalization using Hightouch to activate their data in Snowflake.

What is a customer data warehouse?.
Apr 4

What is a customer data warehouse?

Find out what a customer data warehouse is and how it can turn insights into action.

Introducing a Composable Customer Data Platform powered by Google BigQuery.
Mar 23

Introducing a Composable Customer Data Platform powered by Google BigQuery

Learn how leading organizations unleash the full potential of their customer data in BigQuery using Hightouch.

How to setup Salesforce Data Loader.
Mar 23

How to setup Salesforce Data Loader

The ultimate guide to Salesforce Data Loader. Learn how to setup to tool plus the pros and cons.

How to setup Salesforce Data Import Wizard.
Mar 22

How to setup Salesforce Data Import Wizard

The ultimate guide to Salesforce Data Loader. Learn how to setup to tool plus the pros and cons.

F5’s Jessica Kao on the complete customer view: leveraging the data warehouse as the customer source of truth.
Feb 27

F5’s Jessica Kao on the complete customer view: leveraging the data warehouse as the customer source of truth

Jessica Kao, Senior Director of Marketing Operations and Analytics at F5, discusses how to leverage the data warehouse to build a customer source of truth.

The best modern data warehouse tools.
Feb 9

The best modern data warehouse tools

Looking for the best modern data warehouse tools you should be using? Find out which ones in this article.

What Is a data clean room?.
Feb 7

What Is a data clean room?

Learn what data clean rooms are, how they work, and why they are paramount in the future of how marketers activate, analyze, and measure campaigns.

Write once, use anywhere – the future of the cloud data warehouse.
Jan 25

Write once, use anywhere – the future of the cloud data warehouse

Why we are investing in building features like the Personalization API to make the cloud data warehouse accessible to any team, anywhere.

What is data automation.
Dec 7

What is data automation

Learn how you can take advantage of data automation and how it can save you time and effort.

Redshift vs. Snowflake: the definitive guide.
Dec 5

Redshift vs. Snowflake: the definitive guide

Learn the key differences between Redshift and Snowflake around architecture, pricing, security, compliance, data support, administration, data protection, cloud infrastructure, and performance.

iPaaS vs. Reverse ETL: which data integration approach is right for your business?.
Dec 2

iPaaS vs. Reverse ETL: which data integration approach is right for your business?

Dive into architectural differences of iPaaS and Reverse ETL, and learn which is best for your organization.

The best Segment alternatives and competitors.
Dec 2

The best Segment alternatives and competitors

Discover the top alternatives and competitors to Twilio Segment.

Hightouch + Looker: activate data from looks to any business application.
Nov 8

Hightouch + Looker: activate data from looks to any business application

Utilize your existing Looker Looks as data models in Hightouch

Dear CRM, I’ve fallen in love with the data warehouse.
Sep 19

Dear CRM, I’ve fallen in love with the data warehouse

Why it's time to embrace the data warehouse as your source of truth

Friends don’t let friends buy a CDP.
Sep 14

Friends don’t let friends buy a CDP

How spending the first half of his professional career at Segment drove Tejas Manohar to disrupt the 3.5 billion dollar CDP category.

Can Snowflake be your marketing cloud?.
Aug 26

Can Snowflake be your marketing cloud?

Snowflake is no longer just a data warehouse, it's an industry-leading Data Cloud you leverage to power your marketing campaigns.

How do Salesforce Data Pipelines work?.
Aug 24

How do Salesforce Data Pipelines work?

Learn how you can use Salesforce Data Pipelines to combine data from multiple sources, build recipes, and transform your data.

Your audience builder needs an upgrade.
Aug 24

Your audience builder needs an upgrade

How Hightouch Audiences leverages flexible data modeling to meet any business need

What is a Modern Data Stack? The definitive guide.
Jun 27

What is a Modern Data Stack? The definitive guide

Learn everything there is to know about the individual components that make up a modern data stack.

The definitive guide: CDPs vs. CRMs vs. DMPs.
May 13

The definitive guide: CDPs vs. CRMs vs. DMPs

Learn everything there is to know about CDPs, CRMs, and DMPs. Discover the key differences, use cases, and shortcomings...

The CDP as we know it Is dead: introducing the Composable CDP.
Apr 21

The CDP as we know it Is dead: introducing the Composable CDP

Learn why CDPs are dead and how you can take advantage of the data warehouse.

GA4 & Reverse ETL: activating your behavioral data in BigQuery.
Apr 20

GA4 & Reverse ETL: activating your behavioral data in BigQuery

Learn how you can start leveraging your data in BigQuery to enrich your customer data in Google Analytics.

What is Data Activation?.
Apr 18

What is Data Activation?

Learn everything to know about Data Activation, what it is, why it matters, and how you can get started activating your data today.

Data Activation: the next step after analytics.
Apr 13

Data Activation: the next step after analytics

Analytics & BI aren't enough: learn why you need to focus on data activation to help everyone take action on their data

How we migrated to Salesforce in 4 hours using Hightouch.
Apr 12

How we migrated to Salesforce in 4 hours using Hightouch

CRM migrations are painful, but they shouldn't be. Learn how you can migrate your CRM in under four hours.

Unbundling the CDP.
Mar 15

Unbundling the CDP

Learn why a more modular approach to first-party data benefits marketing and data teams.

The implementation free CDP: stop waiting 6 months.
Mar 9

The implementation free CDP: stop waiting 6 months

Stop spinning your wheels trying to implement a CDP and learn how you can activate your data immediately.

Competitive benchmarks & our focus on customer value.
Feb 1

Competitive benchmarks & our focus on customer value

An update on speed in the RETL competitive landscape

The need for speed in Reverse ETL.
Dec 1

The need for speed in Reverse ETL

An overview of how we think about speed, covering ways our customers power timely business workflows, the typical speeds they experience and improvements we are making to speed up Reverse ETL for everyone.

SaaS integration: what it is & why it's important.
Oct 13

SaaS integration: what it is & why it's important

Learn how SaaS integrations eliminate data silos and the available solutions in the market.

BigQuery vs Snowflake: the definitive guide .
Oct 7

BigQuery vs Snowflake: the definitive guide

Discover the key differences between Google BigQuery and Snowflake around architecture, pricing, security, compliance, data support, administration, data protection, performance, etc...

Why Salesforce shouldn't be your source of truth.
Oct 7

Why Salesforce shouldn't be your source of truth

Learn how Salesforce creates data silos and why the data warehouse should be your source of truth instead.

The future of data integration: what iPaaS & workflow automation tools got wrong.
Sep 21

The future of data integration: what iPaaS & workflow automation tools got wrong

Learn about the shortcomings of iPaaS/Workflow Automation solutions and why the future of data integration is declarative

Solving data's "last mile" problem with Reverse ETL and data observability .
Sep 8

Solving data's "last mile" problem with Reverse ETL and data observability

Discussing the latest standard in data: using your data warehouse to power business workflows (with Reverse ETL) and ensuring you can trust your data (with Data Observability).

The definitive guide to product-led growth (PLG) CRMs.
Aug 19

The definitive guide to product-led growth (PLG) CRMs

CRMs don’t work for Product Led Growth Companies: A definitive guide to PLG CRMs

What's the difference between Reverse ETL tools and Segment?.
Jun 4

What's the difference between Reverse ETL tools and Segment?

Trying to understand the differences between Reverse ETL and Segment? Find out here! We break down the key differences between the two technologies, so you can make an informed decision.

The state of Reverse ETL: what operational analytics looks like today & beyond .
May 13

The state of Reverse ETL: what operational analytics looks like today & beyond

A deep-dive into how companies are using Reverse ETL in to power their operational workflows

Using Hightouch and Slack to power sales ops workflows.
May 7

Using Hightouch and Slack to power sales ops workflows

Getting data from your Data Warehouse into Slack couldn't be easier. With just a few lines of SQL, you can start sending custom notifications to your teams in minutes.

Enabling sales teams by syncing product data into HubSpot.
May 3

Enabling sales teams by syncing product data into HubSpot

Learn how to grab product metrics from your product database and generate queries that will expose that data in Hubspot to enable your Sales teams

3 great ways to schedule a Hightouch sync from your existing workflows.
Apr 20

3 great ways to schedule a Hightouch sync from your existing workflows

We've got three great ways of integrating Hightouch with your existing workflows: Airflow Operators, dbt Cloud integrations, and Webhook APIs.

The definitive guide to pushing data from your EDW to Salesforce CRM.
Apr 6

The definitive guide to pushing data from your EDW to Salesforce CRM

With the growing adoption of CRMs in large and small organizations, serving customer data to sales teams is a true competitive advantage. This guide outlines multiple ways for pushing data to Salesforce from your EDW.

The future of warehouses and customer data - software engineering daily.
Nov 16

The future of warehouses and customer data - software engineering daily

Tune in to this episode from the Software Engineering Daily podcast where one of our founders talks about the future of warehouses, what we're building, and the customer data ecosystem as a whole.