Should business users work independently of IT? No prizes for guessing that 70% of IT workers think it’s a bad idea while 69% of business users think it’s good. Both sides agree their organization would benefit from “low code” platforms that make development easier for whoever does the work. Also no prize for guessing that survey sponsor Mendix offers a low-code platform.
Another sign of peak martech? Investment firm LUMA found the number of martech deals rose just slightly (42 to 45) in Q3 of this year, while the value of publicly traded martech firms actually fell. Deal volume in digital content and Direct-to-Consumer rose much more. The report mentions last month’s purchase by Zeta Global of CDP vendor IgnitionOne’s legacy DSP business, which slipped under this newsletters’ radar.
On a happier note, several vendors are helping to address privacy requirements. OneTrust and Active Navigation are partnering to help companies find sensitive customer information lurking in unstructured data. Dataguise has added a product to simplify response to customer data access requests. And BigID is making it easier to track third party data sharing, as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other rules.
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.