ActionIQ adds capability to query data from external sources like data lakes

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HybridCompute from ActionIQ will allow the CDP to query data from external sources like enterprise data lakes.


on September 14, 2022

ActionIQ, the CDP and CX solutions provider, has announced HybridCompute, a new feature of its InfiniteCompute technology. InfiniteCompute enables the processing of data at, in principle, unlimited scale. HybridCompute will allow the querying of data across multiple systems, including enterprise data lakes, rather than just data uploaded to InfiniteCompute.


This is intended to provide an easier way to drive insights from data sources outside ActionIQ and creates the possibility of sourcing valuable customer data from existing IT data infrastructure investments. The initiative is supported by partnerships with major data lake providers like Data Bricks, Snowflake and Teradata.


Generating value from data investments. “We want to meet our customers wherever they are on their data infrastructure journey and help them generate greater value on those investments by providing them scalable storage and compute infrastructure when they need it, or the ability to query the data where it is with HybridCompute if they’ve already done the work of data unification,” explained Justin DeBrabant, ActionIQ’s SVP of product in a release.


Why we care. This is not the first sign of a very important shift in the structure of the CDP space. The traditional approach of CDPs has been what might be called “the single source of truth” approach. To the extent users were able to upload all their customer data from a wide variety of systems, the CDP could normalize and manage that data and drive insights from it.


This approach, however, was swimming against the trend — certainly at the enterprise level — to manage all business data, including customer data, in a single, large infrastructure. Replicating that data in a separate system — the CDP — can look duplicative and wasteful, to the IT team at least. ActionIQ is looking to solve for that, and it’s not the first enterprise CDP to do so. Expect similar developments going forward.


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Kim Davis is the Editorial Director of MarTech. Born in London, but a New Yorker for over two decades, Kim started covering enterprise software ten years ago. His experience encompasses SaaS for the enterprise, digital- ad data-driven urban planning, and applications of SaaS, digital technology, and data in the marketing space. He first wrote about marketing technology as editor of Haymarket’s The Hub, a dedicated marketing tech website, which subsequently became a channel on the established direct marketing brand DMN. Kim joined DMN proper in 2016, as a senior editor, becoming Executive Editor, then Editor-in-Chief a position he held until January 2020. Prior to working in tech journalism, Kim was Associate Editor at a New York Times hyper-local news site, The Local: East Village, and has previously worked as an editor of an academic publication, and as a music journalist. He has written hundreds of New York restaurant reviews for a personal blog, and has been an occasional guest contributor to Eater.

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