Did you notice that today’s items all start with a question? RichRelevance has some new answers about what buyers want. They just launched “deep recommendations”, which can predict how products will sell before they’ve been offered. The company says that system yields 80% higher sales than standard recommendation engines.
I thought we’d just ease into the Labor Day weekend today but here’s some actual news: digital experience platform Episerver has purchased optimization platform Optimizely. It’s Episerver’s third acquisition since it was bought by private equity investor Insight Venture Partners in September 2018. Price was not announced.
If bad data doesn’t poison you, you might still drown in the flood. That’s the warning of this Splunk report, which finds that managers expect data volume to grow nearly 5x by 2025 and just 14% say their company is prepared to handle the increase. Download for interesting things about blockchain, augmented and virtual reality, 5G, edge computing, AI, Internet of Things and more. No Bloom filters, though.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.