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This article was written by Greg Kihlström for CMSWire. The marketing technology industry names a shift after the part of it that has the best demos and makes the best headlines. We called the last decade “composable” after an architecture, and we are now calling this one “agentic” after…

Recent research signals a pivotal inflection point for marketing organizations: AI is moving beyond merely a productivity tool to become the operating system of marketing itself. But the gap between AI’s promise and its practical deployment is widening, not narrowing. Three structural tensions are emerging that CMOs must confront…

Yesterday’s wave of martech and AI announcements tells a story that is more complicated—and more consequential—than the vendor headlines suggest. The central theme is not that AI is arriving; it is that the infrastructure required to make AI operationally real is finally being built, and the decisions Chief Marketing…

Databricks used its Data + AI Summit on June 16 to introduce CustomerLake, a new agentic customer data platform built natively inside the Databricks Lakehouse. The product brings core CDP functions — Customer 360, identity resolution, audience building, campaign automation, activation, and personalization — directly into the environment where…

Yesterday’s announcements tell a story that vendor headlines obscure: the martech stack is being restructured from the data layer up, and the window for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) to make deliberate architectural decisions is narrowing fast.

The honest read on yesterday’s news is this: vendors are racing to claim the “agentic” label while the practical implementation gap remains enormous. Salesforce’s Agentforce Marketing Goals Agent and Content Agent are still in pilot. Databricks’ CustomerLake is in Private Preview. Jasper’s GEO Agent is newly available but requires…

EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS], a global data and AI company, announced it has achieved Gold Tier Status in the Databricks Partner Program, expanding its collaboration with Databricks to help organizations strengthen their data foundations for enterprise AI through EXLdata.ai and Databricks’ security, governance and lineage capabilities.

Yesterday’s announcements concentrated on the control layer for enterprise AI rather than on new agents. The largest cluster formed around Anthropic’s Claude Compliance API, with Trend Micro, Sentra, Linx Security, Reco, and Netskope each announcing governance or security integrations on the same day. EXL deepened its data partnership with…

Yesterday’s press releases paint a picture that is simultaneously exciting and sobering for CMOs. The volume of AI announcements is accelerating, but the gap between vendor capability claims and organizational readiness to deploy them is widening — not closing. Three structural tensions define what these announcements actually mean for…

The partnership gives brands, agencies, and publishers the ability to evaluate and tune the accuracy of consumer data to increase profitability