Big Data analytics is a field that is advancing by the hour. In marketing, these insights have become the lifeblood of successful campaigns. However, while nearly everyone in the business world knows how important Big Data power is, only 44% actually trust it enough to make important business decisions.

Terminus unveiled new product announcements tied to the growing need for account-based companies to better understand their target account lists, how they engage with potential customers and how it impacts sales conversations. The company’s new Account-Based Platform intends to help marketers better plan, execute and measure account-based marketing and sales efforts.

Scout, a new sales technology platform from the Miller Heiman Group, is designed to leverage data and analytics to predict which seller actions are the most effective. The platform aims to combine Miller Heiman Groups’ strategic selling methodology with analytics-driven technology to improve sales performance and drive deals.

LinkedIn unveiled updates to its Campaign Manager designed to help marketers better manage their campaigns and gain deeper insights into performance analytics.

Most marketers don’t automatically think of data and analytics when it comes to ABM. However, industry experts agree that ABM is a data and analytics challenge because you have to leverage data and analytics to understand who you’re going to target, what you’re going to say to them and how you’re going to drive action throughout the company based on the accounts that matter most to you.

For much of the past decade, success for B2B marketers has been defined as getting buyers to respond to offers by clicking on, opening or downloading an asset. While these actions are still often used as a sign of initial interest from an individual buyer or an account, marketers are increasingly shifting their focus and efforts to new tactics and tools that can determine engagement beyond impressions or form fills.

Audience Analytics for Adobe Audience Manager is an integration between industry DMP and analytics solutions designed to give marketers the ability to collaborate across teams, consistently track audience metrics and drive valuable customer experiences quickly and at scale.  

Act-On Software has announced the release of a new reporting tool called Engagement Insights. The solution is designed to provide real-time access to analytics through a live data connection and pre-configured, templated reports in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, according to the marketing automation platform provider.

Merkle, a global performance marketing agency, announced its acquisition of Aquila Insight, a data analytics organization in the United Kingdom.

Informatica, a data integration and cloud management solutions provider, has announced the extension of its partnership with Google Cloud, allowing the former to provide cloud integration, marketing analytics and data warehouse modernization services.