Sales and marketing results improved at 94% of companies that increased their data quality investment and fell at 74% of those that didn’t, according to this Dun & Bradstreet study. Quality had its greatest impact on basics including sales prospecting and closing, insights, and campaign execution, and the least on advanced goals including personalization, online/offline alignment, and Account Based Marketing. Bear that in mind when you’re justifying your next quality investment.

Finally, CDP Audiens announced an $8 million strategic investment from South Korea’s NHN Corp. In addition to cash, Audiens will gain access to data from NHN’s game, payment, IT and advertising businesses.

IT teams spend lots of time on repetitive requests from business users, finds this TeamDynamix survey.  You might think the implication is IT should let users do more for themselves.  But the main time-wasters are things like password resets, employee on-boarding, and managing credentials, which can’t really be delegated.  And here’s the kicker: IT professionals automate those tasks by building sloppy, insecure, undocumented scripts, just like the non-professionals.   Fun fact: 53% of teams manage 100 or more applications.