When Arm Holdings purchased the Treasure Data CDP last year, they said they would use it to combine Internet of Things data with conventional customer data. Sure enough, Arm has released a retail solution that integrates Treasure Data with Arm’s Pelion IoT device management platform. The solution will make it easier to to target individual-level messages in real time. It will also feed Reflexis ONE, an Arm partner that recommends real-time actions to store associates.

If you suspected that last item came from Jamie, our faithful Department of the Obvious Intern, you’re right. He’s paired it with a study from appliance maker Whirlpool Corporation that discovered most consumers want to spend less time on cooking and laundry and like to save money. They surveyed 2,000 consumers in four global regions to find this out. Jamie is enthralled.

Snowflake is always looking for ways to add value to its core cloud database product.  Its latest step is to purchase Neeva, which offers generative AI-based search technology.  It will be applied to help companies search their own databases, a.k.a. enterprise search.