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.
Salesforce kicked off its big Connections conference yesterday, and if you’re surprised the focus was on generative AI, you haven’t been paying attention. Still, the focus this time was on marketing applications that draw on Salesforce CDP data, so it’s right up our alley. They also announced direct access to Google BigQuery data, ticking the “zero-copy” box as well.