Weekly DaaS Roundup for December 5

NEWS, READS AND MORE

Execs are way too confident in their orgs’ data maturity - that’s a problem Capital One

Capital One surveyed 4,000 leaders and practitioners on whether or not they feel they’re ready for wide scale AI adoption. While 87% leaders feel their org has a strong data backbone, 70% of practitioners report spending 1-4 hours every day remediating data issues.

The root cause of why orgs fail with data and AI by Jens Linden, PhD

A fundamental lack of strategic direction leads to dysfunctional data value creation, manifesting in symptoms like unclear responsibilities, unsuccessful initiatives, and poor data quality - an incredibly detailed cheat sheet on how to build with vision and intent.

2024 Software Spend Report Cloudera

Large orgs (200 FTEs+) in the US spend more than double the amount of their EU counterparts. If you’re wondering how your software spend stacks up - great resource.

FTC takes action against Gravy Analytics and Ventel for sale of sensitive location data FTC

The FTC claims that the companies sold sensitive location data associated with military sites, churches, labor unions. The implications of this ruling may go well past the 2 companies.

Decision Desk HQ called 6/7 swing states and was the first by hours to call the 2024 Election World of DaaS

By modernizing an antiquated data collection methodology employed by the legacy news outlets, Decision Desk was able to call the 2024 Election hours before other outlets. How they did it, why other polls failed and what it means for future political contests.

Trump announces tech hawk Gail Slater as DOJ antitrust lead Quartz

The choice of the FTC vet doesn’t exactly portend a carte blanche approach to M&A for the next 4 years.

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The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI aggregates 42 indicators to establish who is winning “the new space race”

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