8-10: Customer Data Platform (CDP)
The cost of Identity Resolution and whether bridging marketing data to product data requires Segment/mParticle.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Calculate CDP implementation costs
- ✓ Map unified customer identities
- ✓ Assess Composable vs Packaged CDPs
The CDP Integration Trap
A Customer Data Platform (CDP) like Segment promises to unify user data and easily syndicate it to 50 marketing tools. The reality: implementation takes 6-9 months, generates massive engineering friction, and costs $60k+ annually.
Before buying a CDP, question the marketing team. Do they actually use 10 different target destinations, or do they just send an email via HubSpot and run ads on Facebook? If the destination count is low, point-to-point webhook integrations are significantly cheaper.
Modern architectures favor the "Composable CDP" — turning your existing Snowflake/BigQuery warehouse into the CDP engine via Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch, avoiding the massively overpriced CDP data storage tax.
The engineering difficulty of stitching a mobile anonymous ID to a logged-in web ID.
Using cheap tools to push Warehouse data into Salesforce rather than paying a CDP to store duplicate data.
Prevent the monolithic CDP buy using the Composable CDP model.
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Module Syllabus
Lesson 1: The CDP Integration Trap
A Customer Data Platform (CDP) like Segment promises to unify user data and easily syndicate it to 50 marketing tools. The reality: implementation takes 6-9 months, generates massive engineering friction, and costs $60k+ annually.Before buying a CDP, question the marketing team. Do they actually use 10 different target destinations, or do they just send an email via HubSpot and run ads on Facebook? If the destination count is low, point-to-point webhook integrations are significantly cheaper.Modern architectures favor the "Composable CDP" — turning your existing Snowflake/BigQuery warehouse into the CDP engine via Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch, avoiding the massively overpriced CDP data storage tax.
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