Blog - Topical and How To Articles On Data Automation

Written on 13 July 2021.

What Is Data Integration? 8 minute read In our modern age, few things are as valuable as access to the right data at the right time. Data access and integration have given rise to several professions and college majors dedicated solely to everything data. For example, business data analytics is an...

Written on 07 June 2021.

How to Unlock Snowflake Super Powers With Put It Forward 5 minute read It may be an understatement that quality decisions are based entirely on the data quality going into the Snowflake data warehouse. Critical decisions are made across the enterprise every day as organizations rely more and more...

Written on 01 June 2021.

Everything You Need to Know About Snowflake Data Integration 6 minute read Snowflake's data cloud solution has already been adopted by over 4,000 organizations. It's one of the best data platforms for managing and combining multiple sources of data. Modern businesses need as much data as possible...

Written on 01 June 2021.

Complete A/B Testing Reports With Analytics 5 minute read Often people want to get a deeper understanding of email A/B testing results than what's available in standard marketing analytics. Generally for good reasons like to go deeper on what other options may have driven the winning email selection....

Written on 24 May 2021.

5 Keys to Successful Data Governance in Snowflake 6 minute read Over 4,000 organizations have adopted Snowflake's data cloud. It's a safe, easy place to externally place business information for data warehouse use cases. Once your data is stored, you need to manage it. You must create a plan, hire...

Written on 05 May 2021.

7 Reasons Why Organizations Need an Integration Solution 5 minute read 38% of businesses struggle with manual data coding, and 32% have issues with connecting multiple data sources. Data integration systems are the solution to both of these issues. Familiarity ranges from expert level to those...

Written on 27 April 2021.

The Fundamental Guide to Account Based Marketing in 2021 6 minute read CMI's Enterprise Content Marketing research shows that 34% of businesses use account-based marketing and 21% plan to incorporate it. This marketing strategy helps create what traditional ads lack; personalization. It allows...

Written on 22 April 2021.

AI For Predictive Analytics: Actionable Future Insights 6 minute read AI is everywhere in the modern world, from 77% of the connected devices we use every day to approximately 15% of enterprises that use it in their business operations. The number of applications for AI is equally staggering....

Written on 20 April 2021.

10 Tips on Improving Your Big Data Analytics 6 minute read Are you looking to improve the amount and the reliability of your big data analytics outcome? Are you unsure of what aspects you should and shouldn't focus on to do this? Over 80% of Put It Forward customers have achieved a positive...

Written on 14 April 2021.

The Fundamental Guide to the Modern Customer Data Platform 6 minute read The customer data platform market is worth over $2.4 billion. It's a popular form of business software across almost every industry. It lets you learn about your customers and provide them with personalized experiences. Getting...

Written on 12 April 2021.

How is AI Empowering Sentiment Analysis? 6 minute read Sentiment analysis is a new area of technology that's being looked at as the next natural step in digital communication. To understand what sentiment analysis is, think about the last time you were texting someone. At any point, did you...

Written on 19 March 2021.

How To Deliver Sitecore Integration To Improve Scale 5 Minute Read - Legacy Sitecore api integration tools are being replaced with modern no-code solutions such as Put It Forward through it's partnership. In the following we'll walk through the steps needed to integrate Sitecore through the...

Written on 11 February 2021.

How Householding Customer Data Unlocks Personalization At Scale 5 Minute Read Problem: Generalized messaging across customer groups where no obvious linkages exist is because segmentation is detached from the notion of householding within the audience. The problem with this is that it becomes...

Written on 29 December 2020.

CMO Series 12 - Finding the Perfect Customer

Finding the Perfect Customer - CMO Series Part 12 A deep dive into the current and future state of finding the perfect customer with the tools and data you have in place today. Part 12 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: Why every engagement shapes the customer profile What...

Written on 16 December 2020.

Put It Forward’s Top Strategic Data Technology and Market Trends for 2021 3 Minute Read Put It Forward’s Top Strategic Data Technology and Market Trends for 2021 Cross cloud business platforms, democratized AI, hyper-personalization and orchestration based operational models are some of the...

Written on 14 December 2020.

CMO Series 5 - Leveraging CMS's to Scale Personalization

Data Science For All - CMO Series Part 11 An exploration of strenghening the organizational decision making process through the expanded use of data science. Part 11 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: How concentrated data science vs distributed make a difference in experiences What...

Written on 07 December 2020.

Marketing and AI - CMO Series Part 10 An open conversation about the intersection of marketing and AI. With a focus on what, how and where to apply it. Part 10 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: What marketing and AI together are today How to understand the value of it...

Written on 30 November 2020.

Marketing Data Analytics - CMO Series Part 9 An open conversation about marketing analytics, contextual understanding and connecting the past into the present. Part 9 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: Analytics can benefit everyone, not just specialists Contextual marketing...

Written on 23 November 2020.

CMO Series 8 - Marketing Data Segmentation and Clusters

Marketing Data Clusters and Segmentation - CMO Series Part 8 An open conversation about what data clusters are, their centrol role in personalization at scale and how audience segmentation is related. Part 8 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: What marketing data clusters...

Written on 16 November 2020.

Process Orchestration for Scale - CMO Series Part 7 An open conversation about leveraging process orchestration to scale in marketing as part of the operating strategy. Part 7 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: Strengthening a brittle model How process orchestration helps...

Written on 09 November 2020.

Account Based Marketing - ABM - How it Really Works - CMO Series Part 6 A direct conversation about ABM functions as part of a marketing strategy and operating model. Part 6 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: At it's heart - ABM is about sentiment ABM vs CBM - contact...

Written on 02 November 2020.

Solving the CMS Challenge for Personalization at Scale - CMO Series Part 5 A challenge conversation on the role of CMS's in personalizing engagement at scale. Part 5 in the CMO Series. In this conversation you will learn: Positioning CMS for success in your engagement plan What the hard and...

Written on 26 October 2020.

Avoiding the Marketing Automation Trap - CMO Series Part 4 A deeper conversation in the series on marketing automation systems with a focus on the trap and how to stay customer focused. In this conversation you will learn: The trap of metrics based marketing automation Bringing the audience...

Written on 19 October 2020.

Solving the Customer Data Platform (CDP) - Why It's Important - CMO Series Part 3 A conversational blog on customer data platforms and synthetic CDP's for marketing. Step through the challenges and approaches to mastering customer data in marketing. In this conversation you will learn: Understanding...

Written on 12 October 2020.

What is Data Wrangling and Why It's Important - CMO Series Part 2 A conversational blog on data wrangling for marketing. A walk through of why the need for being able to access and organize the data is critical for every marketing organization. In this conversation you will learn: How to spend...

Written on 02 October 2020.

Leveraging First Party Data - CMO Series Part 1 A conversational blog on marketing and first party data. Examining how using first party data establishes context in customer engagement. In this conversation you will learn: Where and how first party sits in your organization Why it's important...

Written on 02 October 2020.

For the Marketer Making the Difference - The CMO Series - Introduction A 12 part challenge series set of conversations which explores the deconstruction and myths of modern marketing to reconstruct it in a sensible form for the next wave. In these conversations you will learn: How to understand...

Written on 20 May 2020.

Seeing Through the Click - Content Awareness Written by: Sebastian Ospina on May, 2020 Seeing Through the Click - What’s Happening Inside the Content Often, our customers and prospects ask for some insights into how their audiences are engaging at a lower level than just simply counting a click...

Written on 13 May 2020.

Experience Continuity - Hyper Personalization Through Linked Experiences May 13, 2020 Experience Continuity - Hyper Personalization Through Linked Experiences When Walt Disney first created his theme parks the vision was for a continuous experience at every point of engagement. Meaning that...

Written on 13 April 2020.

Identity Resolution - Customer Experience Core Infrastructure April 13, 2020 Leveraging What You Have Most companies already have everything that’s needed for identity resolution. It’s not about centralizing more data in yet another application - it’s about creating the relationships when it...

Written on 26 January 2020.

Drinking Your Own Champagne - Scaling by Automation and Smart AI Insights Written by: Mark Cowan on January 26th, 2020 How to Punch Above Your Weight and Still Be Cool It’s been said that success leaves clues. Often I go out to talk with other leaders in multiple industries to explore what...

Written on 02 June 2019.

Centralized AI - The Mind in the Middle Written by: Mark Cowan - CEO, Put It Forward May 30, 2019 Do little bits of smart make a lot of smart? Leveraging AI in a practical sense. Everyday we hear about technology solutions that are incorporating this AI feature or that Machine Learning (ML)...

Written on 21 May 2019.

7 Steps to AI Closed Loop Marketing - Infographic Sometimes the best blog entry is an infographic, more pictures - less words is a good thing right? We've broken down all the complexity to put it into 7 easy buckets of effort describing how closed loop AI and machine learning can...

Written on 15 April 2019.

6 Ways Marketers Can Use Machine Learning 3 Minute Read April, 2019 6 Ways Marketers Can Use Machine Learning in 2019 We already know that artificial intelligence and machine learning technology will shift the paradigm of what work looks like in the future. Some are frightened by it, and others...

Written on 27 February 2019.

But Will it Work? The Pressure for Marketers to Drive Pipeline Conversion Written by: Mark Cowan - CDO, Put It Forward February 26, 2019 But Will it Work? The Pressure for Marketers to Drive Pipeline Conversion It has become increasingly commonplace for marketers to rely on analytics to...

Written on 23 January 2019.

IT Guide: How to THRIVE in 2019 Written by: Mark Cowan, CDO, Put It Forward 23 January 2019. We work with IT teams every day and have seen that 2019 is a whole new landscape and for IT teams not just to survive but to THRIVE they will need to update their approach. With the rise of AI, the...

Written on 22 January 2019.

Vendor Roadmaps: What You Need To Know Written by: Mark Cowan, CDO, Put It Forward 22 January 2019. The more information you can get about vendor intentions, the better, right? Yes, if it’s the right information, and it’s relevant to your situation. Unfortunately, vendor roadmaps may not be...

Written on 17 January 2019.

Data Integration with Context Written by: Mark Cowan, CDO, Put It Forward 17 January 2019. Data integration is no longer about connecting one system or application to another. It’s about connecting people, systems and data to enable unrestricted collaboration and cohesive data stories. One story...

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