The upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation offers opportunities for data management vendors to expand their reach, particularly across the customer base in the Asia-Pacific where tech vendors are seeing “good traction” for compliance software, ZDNet reports. Gurpal Singh, the senior market analyst at IDC’s Asia-Pacific software research group, noted that vendors looking to engage in the APAC market “would be challenged by a lack of readiness amongst businesses in the region, most of which did not have a roadmap or action plan in place with regards to GDPR.” An April 2017 study found that 56 percent of Singapore-based companies expressed concerns they would not be able to meet the deadline for GDPR compliance. Editor's Note: The IAPP Privacy Tech Vendor report details the privacy tech vendor space.  
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