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Prevent data quality issues with these six habits of highly effective data

Maintaining data quality across an organization can feel like a daunting task, especially when your data comes from a myriad of devices and sources. While there is no one magic solution, adopting these six habits will put your organization on the path to consistently reaping the benefits of high quality data.

Growth

How BD myShopi improved personalization while protecting consumer data privacy

BD myShopi connects consumers with exclusive deals from Europe's leading retailers. Learn how they leverage mParticle to present consumers with relevant offers while also supporting data privacy.

Growth

3 Tips on Growing a Startup from Nick Warner at Route

The future of every business is dependent on improving the customer experience. The first step to improving that experience is to know your customer. We spoke to one of the rising stars in growth hacking to learn his strategy.

Growth

Connected, by mParticle Episode 3: Leveraging emerging platforms with Miguel Navarro

In this episode of the Connected, by mParticle podcast we welcome Miguel Navarro, digital transformation leader and patented inventor.

Company

Why I’m Here — I’ve joined mParticle to build the future of customer relationships

Access to accurate customer data, and the ability to turn it into actions that benefit customers, is the future of customer relationships. In this post, Katie Cerar discusses how she'll be helping brands build that future as Head of Product Strategy at mParticle.

Engineering

How to implement an mParticle data plan in an eCommerce app

This sample application allows you to see mParticle data events and attributes displayed in an eCommerce UI as you perform them, and experiment with implementing an mParticle data plan yourself.

Engineering

What does good data validation look like?

Data engineers should add data validation processes in various stages throughout ETL pipelines to ensure that data remains accurate and consistent throughout its lifecycle. This article outlines strategies and best practices for doing this effectively.

Engineering

Should you be buying or building your data pipelines?

With demand for data increasing across the business, data engineers are inundated with requests for new data pipelines. With few cycles to spare, engineers are often forced to decide between implementing third-party solutions and building custom pipelines in-house. This article discusses when it makes sense to buy, and when it makes sense to build.

Engineering

Three threats to customer data quality (and how to avoid them)

In this video, Jodi Bernardini, a Senior Solutions Consultant at mParticle, lays out three major threats standing in the way of customer data quality, and offers advice on how organizations can address them.

Engineering

Ask an mParticle Solutions Consultant: What is data quality?

In this video, Andy Wong, a senior leader on mParticle’s Solutions Consulting team, discusses what data quality means, why it is important prioritize, and the benefits of creating a centralized data planning team to oversee data quality.

Engineering

When to use a data lake vs data warehouse

Enabling teams with access to high-quality data is important for business success. The way in which this data is stored impacts on cost, scalability, data availability, and more. This article breaks down the difference between data lakes and data warehouses, and provides tips on how to decide which to use for data storage.

Growth

From spreadsheet to source code: Leveraging mParticle’s Data Plan Builder

Effective data planning is critical to ensuring that the data entering an organization's internal systems is accurate, reliable, and actionable. mParticle’s Data Plan Builder is available to help both mParticle customers and prospects with the key aspects of data planning: collaboration, implementation, and continuous iteration.

Engineering

How Reverb optimized their data workflows at scale and gave users the rockstar treatment

With mParticle at the heart of their data stack, the world’s largest online music marketplace said goodbye to burdensome ETL pipelines, slashed their data maintenance workload, and unlocked new opportunities to build data-driven features into their product.

Engineering

How to assemble a cross-functional data quality team

Smash your data silos and improve data quality across your organization by assembling a cross-functional team to own data planning.

Company

mParticle's Series E: The rise of Customer Data Infrastructure

mParticle CEO Michael Katz discusses the company's latest funding round, sharing the company's growth thus far and future trajectory.

Growth

Connected, by mParticle Episode 2: Winning the streaming wars with Danny Joseph of Discovery

In the second episode of the podcast we interview Danny Joseph, VP of Product, DTC at Discovery. Danny shares best practices around building strong customer relationships, working across the organization to build better products and much more.

Company

Announcing the Pathways Partner Program and Partner Portal

mParticle is excited to announce our new Pathways Partner Program and Partner Portal, which will allow mParticle partners to access platform enablement and certification, co-marketing initiatives, co-branded collateral creations, and opportunity referrals in a central system.

Growth

How to prepare for your Customer Data Platform implementation

Implementing a Customer Data Platform at the infrastructure layer of your tech stack can transform the way in which you work with customer data—if you do it right. This article breaks down the steps you can take to prepare for your Customer Data Platform implementation and make the most of your investment.

Engineering

What is data integrity and why does it matter for customer data?

Integrity is a good quality. Just like you want the people around you to have integrity, you also want the data on which you base strategic decisions to be of high integrity as well. That sounds good, but what does it mean for data to have integrity, and why is this so important? In this post, we’ll explore this broad and nuanced concept, define what it means in the context of customer data, and learn a strategy to ensure your customer data maintains high integrity throughout its lifecycle.

Engineering

Debug customer event collection in real time

If you are responsible for implementing data tracking plans across your apps and websites, you’re probably familiar with how tedious and time consuming it can be to track down data collection bugs when they pop up. This video walks through how you can use mParticle’s Live Stream to simplify your team’s testing and debugging cycles.

mParticle Product

Power first-party advertising with mParticle's Yahoo! integration

Yahoo! sees roughly 200b daily cross-screen data signals from search, mail, commerce, and content. With mParticle’s new integration with Yahoo!, connecting those data signals just got a lot easier.

Engineering

Everything you need to know about data integrations

Data integrations are ubiquitous throughout the SaaS ecosystem. But not all data integrations are created equal. This article walks through the different types of integrations commonly available and provides tips on how to choose the right integration types for your use cases.

Engineering

How do CDPs benefit engineers?

Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) have traditionally been thought of as tools that benefit marketers and product managers. But from simplifying data collection to enabling data-driven feature development, CDPs have far-reaching value for engineers as well. Learn more about the benefits of CDPs for technical teams.

Engineering

What is a data plan, and why is it important to have one?

"Wait, why do we need this data again?" "Was that attribute supposed to use snake or camel case?" Data tracking plans keep everyone in your organization aligned on your data efforts, from the high-level strategy to the nittiest, grittiest details.

Growth

Three mobile campaigns that quickly grab consumer attention

Mobile users are always on the go. In this guest post, Shannon Cook, Director of Go-to-Market Enablement at Movable Ink, shares three mobile campaigns you can use to capture, and hold, your customers' attention.

Growth

Verbessert den Customer Lifecycle deiner mobilen App

Es gibt viele Frameworks zum mobilen Wachstum, die Teams nutzen können, um ihren Customer Lifecycle zu steuern. Nicht viele davon sind allerdings speziell für mobile App Marketing ausgelegt. In diesem Artikel erfahrt ihr, wie ihr die neue Marketing Master Map von Customlytics verwendet werden könnt, um euren mobilen Customer Lifecycle zu gestalten.

Growth

Improve your mobile app customer lifecycle: Increase efficiency with a Customer Data Platform

As users move through the customer lifecycle, different tactics are required to keep them engaged and increase lifetime value. Although these strategies vary, one commonality between them is that they are all powered by customer data. Learn how Customer Data Platforms make it easier to access and activate data throughout the mobile app customer lifecycle.

Growth

Improve your mobile app customer lifecycle: Using the Customlytics Marketing Master Map

There are many growth frameworks teams can use to manage the customer lifecycle. Not many, however, are designed specifically for mobile app marketing. This post walks through how you can use Customlytics's new Marketing Master Map to frame your mobile customer lifecycle.

mParticle Product

Aligning with Apple’s AppTracking Transparency Requirements

We're excited to announce the Milestone 3 release of our support for Apple's AppTracking Transparency. With this release, mParticle customers can now set a default ATT status when one has not been collected, in addition to being able to collect ATT consent status and control data forwarding based on ATT status.

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Part 2: Integrate your Shopify eCommerce Store with mParticle

In this blog post, I’ll be embed the mParticle Web SDK within Shopify’s liquid themes and checkout page. This will allow us to capture, analyze and orchestrate events from the Web as well as the back-end of our Shopify store.

mParticle Product

Part 1: Integrate Server-side Events from your Shopify eCommerce Store with mParticle

mParticle's Shopify integration allows you to easily unify, transform and activate customer data collection across all of your eCommerce channels. Here, we'll look at how to capture server-side events with the pre-built connector.

mParticle Product

Simplify eCommerce Data Management with mParticle’s Shopify Integration

More than a million businesses use Shopify to help them sell. With mParticle’s new feed integration, you can get all the benefits of a third-party eCommerce platform, without giving up ownership of your customer data.