The Ultimate Guide to Customer Data Platforms

2026 · Irish Edition

Also known as CDP.

Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) are central tools in today’s business landscape, enabling organisations to collect, unify, and activate customer data for insightful analytics and personalised customer experiences. As companies face an abundance of consumer data from numerous channels, CDPs provide a technological backbone to harness this information efficiently and securely.

The recent stories reflect how various industries—from retail and healthcare to aviation and technology—are leveraging CDPs to modernise customer engagement, improve operational agility, streamline marketing efforts, and bolster cybersecurity. Integration of AI and machine learning with CDPs is enhancing real-time data insights, enabling hyper-personalisation, and supporting first-party data strategies amid evolving privacy regulations.

By exploring these stories, readers can learn about practical applications of customer data platforms, understand the benefits of unifying data across platforms, and discover the challenges and solutions in deploying CDPs effectively. This tag serves as a valuable resource for professionals interested in driving efficient growth, enhancing customer loyalty, and navigating the complexities of data privacy and AI in customer experience management.

Irish Customer Data Platforms news
Analyst Insights
Infobip launches AgentOS platform, targets agentic AI shift
Gartner · CDP · UC
This month
Optimizely named Gartner leader for ninth year running
Gartner · CDP · MarTech
This month
Whatfix study warns AI adoption gap costs mid-sized firms
Gartner Market Guide · CDP · SaaS
This month
Constructor posts surge on AI retail search momentum
Gartner · CDP · Hyperscale
Last month
Datarails unveils FinanceOS to power AI-driven finance
Gartner · CDP · MarTech
Last month
Reviews
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Marketing Technologies
Last month
Expert columns
Mythos changes everything: Is your AI agent security ready?
By Dev Rishi of Rubrik
Last week
From DSPM to data protection: Closing the last mile on sensitive data in the era of AI
By Franklin Nguyen of Cyberhaven
This month
5 eCommerce trends set to define 2026
By Bobby Joseph of Melissa
This month
Why email automation fails without clean and verified data
By Edmund Ng of Melissa
This month
AI can inspire travel, but it still can't book it. That's about to change
By Mike Putman of Custom Travel Solutions
This month
5 mobile-first strategies to ensure contact data quality
By Greg Brown of Melissa
This month
The pros and cons of AI in content generation: all you need to know
By Haekal Aditya of Manning & Co
Last month
AI agents vs AI automations: how to get the mix right in your future marketing strategy
By Pipin Firmansyah of Manning & Co
Last month
Trust as a measurable asset for CMOs in the age of AI
By Geoff Main of Passionberry Marketing
Last month
From complexity to clarity: Why eCommerce needs clean customer data
By Greg Brown of Melissa
Last month
Gender bias in AI - how to spot it, and how to prevent it
By Ruth Bucknell of Merkle UK
Last month
Trust, transformation and the women leading modern client partnerships
By Laura Fox of APS Group
Last month
The future of marketing is built on open data infrastructure
By Monica Ohara of Fivetran
Last month
Four women who are nailing loyalty with customer experience front and centre
By Fiona Stevens of LoyaltyLion
Last month
How insurance providers are making their customer data AI ready
By Helen Richardson of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Insurance
Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Interviews
Exclusive: Google Cloud accelerates shift to agentic data
Discussing Data Warehousing
Last week
Google sees retail success with agentic commerce push
Discussing Unified Communications
Last week
Exclusive: Orderfox pushes into autonomous execution with Gieni ABX
Discussing Software-as-a-Service
Last month
Rise of AI Agents introduces new infosec risk: Okta
Discussing Data Protection
Last month
Elastic says AI search & context now decide customer loyalty
Discussing Big Data
Last month
Recent news
Adobe adds agent tools to Experience Manager Forms
About Customer Experience
Today
Payment firms expand into broader merchant services
About Customer Relationship Management
Yesterday
AI shopping agents reshape retail buying & checkout
About Online shopping
Yesterday
Amazon, Meta & Microsoft join UCP technical council
About Online shopping
Yesterday
WPP integrates Google Earth AI into marketing platform
About Marketing
Last week
Banks must modernise core systems, says Temenos report
About Small Business
Last week
Adyen adds loyalty software in €750m Talon.One deal
About Software-as-a-Service
Last week
Wiz expands AI security coverage across cloud & edge
About Shadow IT
Last week
Komodor to host AI SRE summit on ops & reliability
About Virtualisation
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Explainer: How Adobe is building agentic marketing
About Marketing
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Tredence launches agentic AI suite with Google Cloud
About IT Industry
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Foxit launches PDF editor app inside ChatGPT for users
About Storage
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SAP & Google Cloud launch multi-agent marketing AI
About Marketing
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Google Cloud unveils agentic enterprise infrastructure tools
About Cloud Services
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Dell launches PowerMaxOS 10.4 with faster, safer storage
About Storage
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Google Cloud launches Agentic Data Cloud for AI agents
About Business Intelligence
Last week
Infosys expands Google Cloud tie-up for agentic AI
About IT services
Last week
Google Cloud expands Gemini Enterprise into AI agent hub
About IT service management
Last week
Google launches Workspace Intelligence for AI across apps
About Data Protection
Last week
Bedrock Data extends ArgusAI governance to Google Vertex AI
About Storage
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