We reported last week that many companies won’t be ready in time for the California Consumer Privacy Act, so it seems only fair to add that consent management vendor PossibleNow has launched a CCPA compliance module. More good news for procrastinators: the tech industry is still trying to weaken the law, although time may be running out.
SAP yesterday joined the parade of enterprise software vendors who announce plans to launch a CDP without revealing a schedule or details. The goal they described – “to ingest all customer attributes to create a unified profile, including experiential, operational events and activity, behavioural, consent and first-party profile, and demographic data” and share these in real time with SAP and third party applications – sounds like a real CDP. We’ll see what they deliver.
This report from Forbes Insights and Treasure Data shows that personalization leaders are winning, too: it finds that 54% of personalization leaders exceeded their revenue targets compared with just 15% of followers. Much more here on what leaders do differently and how to follow in their footsteps.
It barely feels like news when industry giants add AI features, since that’s what they’re expected to do. But lots of people use their products, so their announcements are probably of higher interest than most. With that in mind, let’s note that Adobe has just announced general availability of agents for audience creation, journey orchestration, experimentation, journey insights, website optimization and agent support.