Next we have a study from Braze that found 95% of U.S. adults think privacy laws should do more to protect their data and 84% have walked away when a company asked for too much personal information. Think it’s obvious that companies should tell consumers how their data is used? You’re right: so do 99% of executives and 94% of consumers.
I can’t quite decide whether this is newsworthy or not, Dear Reader, but you might like to know that Dun & Bradstreet is hatching plans to get public again, less than a year after it was purchased by private investors. D&B announced it had submitted a draft S-1 but the document is confidential.
I couldn’t find another video story but you could make a great horror movie from this O’Reilly report on data quality. Open with a shot of data analyst angrily slamming down a newspaper article headlined “80% of organizations don’t follow data governance best practices”, follow her futile battle to gather enough resources to do her job, and end with her slowly going mad as she tries to reconcile endless, inconsistent data sources. Okay, maybe you won’t win an Oscar with that one.
Salesforce has agreed to buy Troops.ai, which helps sales teams use CRM data without actually opening their CRM system. Modules include tools to update CRM records, send Slack notifications of changes in CRM data, and collaborate on deals using a hub within Slack. Troops.ai will be part of Salesforce’s Slack division when the deal closes some time this summer.