Back on more familiar turf, Informatica has purchased GreenBay Technologies, which offers AI-based entity matching, schema matching, and metadata graphs. The tech will strengthen Informatica’s capabilities for “self-integrating systems”. Who needs citizen integrators when robots can do the job instead?
Today’s theme, for no particular reason, is Data Professionals Behaving Badly. First we have news that 48% of IT organizations regularly release applications they know contain security flaws. See this blog post for a full-scale rant on the topic, quoting a half-dozen different surveys.
CaliberMind now styles itself as B2B marketing intelligence software but we still think of them as a CDP. They just raised $2 million, brining their total to $5.3 million.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.