Duo, a cloud-based secure access provider which is now a part of Cisco, has launched its first data center in Mumba, India. The aim is to help its customers strengthen cyber defences and meet data localization requirements. This is the latest n Cisco’s investments to build future ready, data compliant security infrastructure in India.
Appetito, the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma, an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco.
RBL used Salesforce’s newly launched Hyperforce, that enables local data storage on major public clouds in a compliant manner. This helped them meet regulatory requirements around an India data centre. RBL Bank deployed Salesforce platform to bring onboarding processes for all its retail lending units onto a single solution. Customer onboarding for the credit card business and rural vehicle and tractor finance now sit on Salesforce.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.