There’s always something to say about privacy. This Integris study should make you even more nervous than usual with news that a single financial services transaction can be replicated across 100 systems, 64% of companies store sensitive personal data in 50 or more systems, and 45% share private data with at least 50 partners. Have a great day!
The News Gods have left for vacation, leaving behind a few surveys to read during the holiday break. You might start with this Intrado set of Webcast benchmarks. They found that 39% of registrants actually attend on the appointed day, 61% of Webcasts include video, and 82% are accessed on mobile devices. That last suggests you might want to rethink those small-print graphics.
Sticking with financial news: integrated business application vendor Odoo just raised $90 million. The deal is a trend trifecta: open source, all-in-one software platforms, and private equity investors. Odoo claims 4.5 million users, most on its free version but some paying for Odoo Enterprise.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.