Gartner has released its 2021 annual Magic Quadrant for enterprise marketing cloud offerings, highlighting Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, SAS, Acoustic and SAP as leaders in this marketing technology field.

All the latest martech, customer and adtech news from Salesforce, Taboola, Oracle, Klaviyo, Salesforce, SugarCRM, Twilio, GRIN, ADA and Styra

International Women’s Day 2021 highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic unequally affected women, from losing jobs to having a greater care burden. CMO examines some of the measures organisations are taking to help redress that imbalance.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Oracle, Cheetah, Blis, Sprinklr, ZoomInfo, SAP and Demandbase

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Quad, Aqilliz and Zirca, BIG Outdoor, Oracle, DoubleVerify, Linktree, Lotame and Really Simple Systems

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Kmart has launched an Australian-developed augmented reality (AR) tool, the KBot, with its latest home decor catalogue.

​Oracle has been named as part of a TikTok proposal to the US Government to try and overcome security concerns around the social media platform, knocking out rival, Microsoft, for the prize.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from HubSpot, InfoSum, UJET and Zendesk, Demand Science Group, Taguchi, Genesys, DoubleVerify and Oracle

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Salesforce has dominated for leadership and vision in Gartner’s latest rankings of the top customer service and support software vendors globally. But a number of other players have been highlighted as leaders in what is fast becoming a busy list.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Zoom, Longtail UX, Currency Alliance, Rubicon Project and Telaria, HubSpot, Verint, Airship, and Taboola and Moat.

It’s been a couple of weeks of cancellations and warnings as industries from technology to culture and sports to marketing and creative cancel, postpone or take events digital in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Adobe, Sitecore, Acquia, Liferay and Episever have taken the lead for digital experience platforms, according to Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms report.

Leaders in customer experience (CX) gathered at the Oracle Modern Cloud event this week to discuss customer journeys, good CX, and how best to achieve it.

Oracle CX’s CMO, Des Cahill, is heartened to see customer experience (CX) becoming a boardroom priority for business differentiation, he told CMO at Oracle’s Modern Cloud event this week.

Despite all the hype around customer data platforms (CDPs), a new study has found brands are struggling to create a unified view of the customer.​

​It’s November so, naturally, the call out to grow a ‘mo and help prevent male suicide for Movember is top of mind. But how does a not-for-profit like the Movember Foundation harness its data to create a strategy for better personalisation, targeting, and all year round messaging? And, most importantly, how do they do this in a cost effective way?

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Oracle, Mood Media, Criteo, Emarsys, MiQ, Engagio, Oracle, Demandbase, Taboola, Outbrain, Campaign Monitor, Wrike and Purple Square.

As data moves to assume a central role within business in the digital era, its importance to marketing and customer experience professionals has never been greater. But nor has the need to ensure the security of such data.