CMOs grappling to get their heads around marketing technology are facing more confusion as the technology community experiences both rapid consolidation and diversification, the latest vendor landscape supergraphic suggests.

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Too many CMOs haven’t invested enough in platform-based marketing technology systems and resources to meet and drive customer expectations, according to IDC. But making that leap into marketing technology doesn’t have to mean owning the infrastructure yourself.

It’s the primary objective of every retail organisation: To recognise and personalise the shopping and brand experience of every customer, whatever the channel, whenever the interaction, and in a seamless and dynamic way. And that’s exactly what Australian fashion retailer, The PAS Group, is looking to do.

One quarter of all high-tech chief marketing officers will be replaced annually between now and 2018, IDC has claimed in its Worldwide CMO/Customer Experience 2015 Predictions.

Accenture has acquired Australian digital agency, Reactive Media, in a bid to strengthen its digital marketing and technology services capabilities.

Email data analytics company, Return Path, has secured a US$35 million capital injection in a new founding round.

While many Australians know eBay as an ecommerce powerhouse, fewer know that the company also supplies the technology powering many other online retail experiences – and increasingly, a number of offline experiences as well.

Local mobility management player, Mobile Mentor, has struck a partnership with iProximity to unite its technology and services with the proximity marketing consultancy’s customer solutions.

Mobile advertising platform provider, InMobi, has launched its Audience Platform in the Australian market, claiming to offer marketers more targeted mobile advertising capabilities at scale.

As anyone who has renovated a house may attest, no matter how good the starting point is, it takes more than a new coat of paint to get results. For Jon Satterley, the task of digitally renovating multi-faceted Australian entertainment company, Village Roadshow, started by pouring new foundations.

Teradata has struck an alliance with Localz to bring the boutique microlocation consultancy’s location-based capabilities into its core marketing platform.

REA Group has become the latest Australian company to invest in programmatic advertising, striking a new deal with TubeMogul to use its audience data to present more relevant video advertising to realestate.com.au’s customers.

Stores, sports venues and other users of Apple's iBeacons will have to walk a fine line between helping users and angering them with new in-app messaging from Adobe Systems' Marketing Cloud.

The pace of change in ecommerce can mean decisions made only a handful of years ago quickly restrict a retailer’s ability to adapt to new trends.

Computers long ago surpassed human beings in logic-based tasks such as computation. But it has taken much longer for them to even passingly mimic human beings in many of the chaotically-structured tasks that we undertake each day. So can artificial intelligence really contribute anything of value to a process as personally oriented as sales and marketing?

Arts Centre Melbourne is rethinking its approach to beacon technology, after a disappointing trial that took place during Melbourne Festival in October.

Marketers must make smart use of technology to create powerful ad experiences for consumers, according to GroupM global chief digital officer, Rob Norman.

MediaMath has made its second acquisition in a month, purchasing startup ad tech player, Rare Crowds, to extend its programmatic ad capabilities for brands.

Customer loyalty programs and the data opportunities they present are taking centre stage at the Super Retail Group as the organisation looks to drive more personalised engagement across its brand portfolio.

Newcastle-based company, Port Container Services, is proving you don’t need to be big to get value out of customer relationship management.