You might prefer chocolate, but our Valentines gift to you is a matched set of CDP Institute reports on the CDP markets in Europe and Asia Pacific. The APAC report cites the pandemic and privacy regulations as causing explosive industry growth, with a 50% increase in employment in the past twelve months. The European market is more mature, with a still-impressive 22% year-on-year employment increase. Reports were written by AZK Media (APAC) and Adapt Clear Value (Europe) and sponsored by Treasure Data, which had no influence on the contents.

Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime.  In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds.  It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.