In Brief: UK retailer JD Sports notified 10 million customers of a breach that may have affected their personal data
The company has claimed data was “limited,” since it didn’t include payment card data.
The company has claimed data was “limited,” since it didn’t include payment card data.
Expectations are more vendors may follow.
Retailers are super-excited about “composable” architectures, with 91% considering it important, according to this MACH Alliance survey. (MACH stands for Micro-Services, API-First, Cloud Native, and Headless, which is a good tech checklist for true composability.) But just 2% say their systems are fully composable today. The focus here is largely on in-store technology; Customer Data Platforms don’t show up in the discussion.
One of the normal stages in the maturation of a new technology is appearance of industry-specific applications. AI agent-powered end-to-end marketing campaigns have reached that stage remarkably quickly. Case in point: Birdeye has released an agentic marketing platform for its base of multi-location brand marketers.