BARC’s magisterial 2024 Data, BI and Analytics Trend Monitor finds security and privacy, data quality, and governance are the top 3 industry concerns, which is similar to past results. More interesting are a slight decline in the rankings for self-service analytics (from 5th to 6th) and business user data prep (from 7th to 9th). Lots of detail here by company size, user type, best-in-class, industry, and regions.
Meanwhile, back in CDP-land, Blueshift announced a free starter tier for its product. Users will be able to ingest data from multiple sources, build up to 10,000 profiles, extract audiences, and run triggered journeys across multiple channels. Other limits apply as well, and users are expected to serve themselves.
Are autonomous vehicles coming closer or dropping back in the rear view mirror? It was two steps back today, with a giant Tesla recall due to its autopilot system not forcing users to pay attention and a 24% layoff at GM’s troubled Cruise subsidiary. On the sunny side, you can now book an autonomous Waymo ride at the Phoenix airport.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.