Yellowfin is another company that’s replacing helping data analysts. It’s just introduced Yellowfin Signals, which continuously looks for changes in source data. The company describes this much more eloquently as “continuous time-series detection of trends and anomalies with instant correlations”. It’s also added Yellowfin Stores, which assembles insights in one place but is oh-so-much-smarter than what you used to call a dashboard.
Open source data integration vendor Talend has purchased Stitch, which offers self-service data movement into cloud data warehouse platforms. That sentence covers so many trends – including open source, self-service, data integration, and cloud-based applications – that I could take the rest of today off.
Consumers are underwhelmed by what they get for the data they already share: in this survey from identity management vendor Janrain, just 18% said online ads “often” seem to understand what they want while although 47% offered a grudging “sometimes”.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.