Google Cloud had purchased Bitium, which provides enterprise identity management. The deal came one day after SAP Hybris purchased Gigya, which also offers identity services. But Bitium is focused largely on employee identities to control access to resources, while Gigya is focused on consumer identities.
I know what you like and today’s newsletter isn’t it. But I consider these topics important. Let’s start with automated data management – something that should matter to CDP vendors and buyers alike, since it reduces the cost of building and managing a unified, persistent customer database. Datometry, which specializes in this sort of thing, has announced an automated data warehouse schema synthesizer. That makes it easier to move data warehouses to the cloud.
If a chatbot with a Russian accent asked for your personal information, think twice before responding.
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.