While we’re on the topic, let’s note that Estonia-based Veriff, another identity verification platform, has raised $15.5 million, raising its total to $23.8 million. The company can verify identity documents from over 190 countries. Yes, identity verification is hot.
The News Gods are taking an extended holiday, which gives me a chance to cover technical news that rarely reaches the head of the queue. First up, Informatica has purchased metadata management tool Compact Solutions. Its superpower is extracting metadata by scanning everything from databases and applications to hand-coded scripts. How much fun is that?
CIOs were even less pleased with remote working: 95% said their organizations had been bogged down by inefficiencies in this Hitachi ID Systems survey. Password lockouts were the most common challenge. That may not be surprising but this is: 52% said on-premise solutions had proven more agile than software-as-a-service or cloud-based solutions.
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.