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The Customer Data Platform Storage Conundrum

What is the most secure (and affordable) way to activate customer data at scale?

Tejas Manohar.

Tejas Manohar

Glenn Pacitti.

Glenn Pacitti

June 7, 2023

7 minutes

What is the most secure (and affordable) way to activate customer data at scale?
  • Run queries directly on your warehouse.
  • Store all customer data temporarily in your own cloud environment.
  • Transfer data to your destination via Hightouch without ever storing it.
  • Leverage AWS PrivateLink and Secure Tunneling to further guardrail your data transfers.
  • Hightouch never stores your data

    Composable CDPs Reduce Costs

    Traditional CDPs store a separate copy of your data, and pass along the costs of that storage and compute to you. When you activate data directly from your warehouse, you are not paying to store it anywhere else. A Composable CDP built via a data warehouse with Hightouch will cost less than a traditional CDP that stores its own data.

    Composable CDPs Are Fast to Implement

    Adding a Data Activation tool to your data warehouse allows you to immediately begin syncing your data to the downstream tools that need it. In fact, on average, Hightouch customers set up their first sync in just 23 minutes.

    This Composable CDP architecture allows you to immediately act upon the data you’re already storing rather than spend months duplicating it and setting up event collection in a traditional CDP platform. Hightouch has built tools like our schema builder that allow data teams to easily organize data to ensure it is ready for marketers to access via self-service tools.

    Composable CDPs Improve Data Reliability

    Marketers using traditional CDPs are looking at (and acting upon) data that is different from what their company stores in the data warehouse. A Composable CDP architecture ensures that all organization members analyze and act upon the same data. Further, this approach ensures that any data investments, such as machine learning and predictive models, are immediately available to all organization members. This centralization of data in the data warehouse allows companies to adopt a “Write Once, Use Anywhere” approach–investing in their core data to impact all downstream use cases.

    Lee Hammond.

    Being able to activate data directly from your warehouse is a game-changer. There's no reason a modern marketer should have to store customer data in an external system like a packaged CDP. That risk and cost just doesn't need to exist.

    Lee Hammond

    Lee Hammond

    Marketing Data Stack Leader

    Hakkoda

    Getting Started

    The Composable CDP is a simple concept with a straightforward approach to activate your data. All you need to do to get started is connect Hightouch to your warehouse. In 23 minutes, you can begin to activate your data directly to your downstream tools. Book a demo today to strategize your CDP use cases and see how you can keep your customer data secure while putting it to work.

    Traditional CDP vs. Composable CDP (Comparision Guide)

    Download our comparison guide to understand exactly where traditional and Composable CDPs differ.

    • Event Collection
    • Real-Time
    • Identity Resolution
    • Audience Management
    • etc.

    More on the blog

    • What is a Composable CDP?.
  • Write Once, Use Anywhere – the Future of the Cloud Data Warehouse.
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    Activate your data in less than 5 minutes