Are autonomous vehicles coming closer or dropping back in the rear view mirror? It was two steps back today, with a giant Tesla recall due to its autopilot system not forcing users to pay attention and a 24% layoff at GM’s troubled Cruise subsidiary. On the sunny side, you can now book an autonomous Waymo ride at the Phoenix airport.
BARC’s magisterial 2024 Data, BI and Analytics Trend Monitor finds security and privacy, data quality, and governance are the top 3 industry concerns, which is similar to past results. More interesting are a slight decline in the rankings for self-service analytics (from 5th to 6th) and business user data prep (from 7th to 9th). Lots of detail here by company size, user type, best-in-class, industry, and regions.
Whether or not your new car drives itself, you can bet it will be collecting data about you. Sonatus has launched a Vehicle Personalization Solution which will enable auto users to personalize their experience and no doubt share their information with a large and ill-defined audience of other devices and businesses.
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.