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MarTech Today: GDPR risk assessment, Janrain pitches Gigya customers & Twitter officially doubles its character count

…looked at perceived risk for non-compliance of 11 GDPR requirements by US and UK firms. Janrain to Gigya customers: Come aboard Nov 8, 2017 by Barry Levine Following SAP’s recent purchase of Gigya, Janrain is offering a migration deal and raising questions about its main competitor’s independence.…

Janrain launches Identity Groups for consumers

…While Janrain offers a set of standardized access levels and related functions, each Identity Group is customized for the device maker or service provider. If a carmaker, for instance, wanted to let the car owner provide different speed limit caps to teen drivers in the family, Janrain would work…

How SAP’s purchase of Gigya could change the identity management landscape

…providing solutions for user consent of private data, given that the  General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming into effect in May. While Janrain, Evidon and other independent players have released GDPR-ready solutions, SAP could become the largest GDPR-oriented vendor thus far. “While…

Nearly two months into GDPR, is the EU law making a difference?

…it never changed our focus to drive value for publishers and demand-side platforms (DSPs).” Bryta Schulz, vice president of marketing at Janrain, told me that “we were pleasantly surprised to learn that our customers and prospects were very receptive to receiving our ads.” “In our…

Consumers say they want much more control over their personal data

…government to pass laws that provide them with “greater privacy, security and control of their personal data.” That’s according to a new survey from Janrain, which polled more than 1,000 U.S. consumers. The company is leading with a finding around consumer willingness to forgive data breaches. The…

A new era of personalization: The hyperconnected customer experience

…technologies and customer profile data management capabilities to deliver personalized customer experiences. Source: Forrester (commissioned by Janrain) At the MarTech conference in San Francisco, Jason Heller of McKinsey described this new era of personalization as a battleground where…

Janrain launches centralized data access control

…cloud-based location. Janrain Director of Product Marketing Sven Dummer told me that his company is the first “to offer a complete cloud-based standardization of access control across all apps and sites.” He noted that it works with other sign-on solutions, in addition to Janrain’s. That access…

Akamai buys identity provider Janrain

…will acquire customer identity provider Janrain. The move means that the two leading once-independent identity providers are now integrated into other platforms. In the fall of 2017, marketing/e-commerce/enterprise resource planning platform SAP bought Janrain competitor Gigya. Maintaining ‘digital…

Janrain launches its new Identity Central solution

Janrain’s depiction of a client company’s calls to its cloud platform, over the OIDC (OpenID Connect 1.0) protocol. Identity management platform Janrain is out Wednesday with its new Identity Central platform, which it says is the first such end-to-end cloud-based solution. Identity Central is…

Janrain to Gigya customers: Come aboard

Janrain is asking Gigya’s customers to jump ship. The two companies have been key competitors in the space of cloud-based customer identity and access management, or CIAM. But in September, SAP bought Gigya for its marketing and e-commerce platform, raising questions about how the end of Gigya’s…

Janrain now includes a phone number-based fraud detector

Identity management provider Janrain is announcing what it says is the first anti-fraud, phone number-based detection built into this kind of service. The Portland, Oregon-based company enables a website visitor to use their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media credentials when they log…

Janrain offers one of the first GDPR portals for consumer data management

…wallet. But Janrain Director of Product Marketing Sven Dummer told me that Janrain’s objective here is to answer the immediate needs of its client sites, each of which wanted their own identity management portal. Dummer added that a portable “permissions wallet” is on Janrain’s 2019 roadmap,…