Back in the USA, analytical database vendor Snowflake, which powers a number of CDPs, announced a Data Cloud “ecosystem” of data providers and consumers. The cloud includes a data marketplace for third party data and a data exchange for second party data, both in public preview. They also announced private preview of features including data masking and tokenization for privacy.
Here’s an interesting survey about real-time analytics that Harvard Business Review Analytic Services produced for SAS, Intel, and Accenture. They found 60% of companies think real-time, cross-touchpoint interactions are important but just 16% are very effective at delivering them. There are similarly huge gaps for specific capabilities, such as translating data into actionable insight (83% important, 22% doing it). Download to find how many say marketing is in charge of customer experience and CX tech.
Finally, we have a $14 million Series A for 1touch.io, which discovers personal data in enterprise systems. Competitors include BigID, Okera, Spirion, DataGrail, Dathena, and OneTrust. I’ll also sneak in an integration between BigID and privacy management platform Privatar, an application development framework from BigID , and launch of blockchain-based decentralized identity management platform Magic with $4 million in funding.
Continuing its early fall shopping spree, Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire data protection and management company Own (it is also acquiring voice agent vendor Tenyx). In addition to analytics capabilities Own will enhance Salesforce’s existing data security tools. It has been a Salesforce AppExchange partner for over 10 years.