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Customer Data Platforms Show That Playing The Long Game Pays Off

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Forrester has published The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms For B2C, Q3 2024. It’s an exciting moment because this is the very first Forrester Wave evaluation for this category. Given the heavy buyer and vendor interest in customer data platforms (CDPs), it evokes the obvious question: “What took you so long?!” For context, consider the […]

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