Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News — April 16, 2026
The dominant theme is (wait for it…) agentic AI: autonomous systems that don’t just generate content or surface insights, but take action, trigger workflows, and make decisions without human intervention at each step. Salesforce, GrowthLoop, Adobe, Demandbase, GoodData, Airship, and a dozen e-commerce platforms all announced agentic capabilities on…
Expert Mode: Why Your Modern Data Warehouse is Sabotaging Your AI Strategy
As marketing leaders, we find ourselves in an interesting position. We are champions of innovation, the primary sponsors of multi-million dollar AI initiatives, and the stewards of the customer experience. We’ve fought the good fight for budget, invested heavily in modern data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, and have…
#779: Denodo CMO Ravi Shankar on why good data is critical to AI success
While everyone focuses on the glamour of AI models and algorithms, the reality is that most enterprise initiatives stall or fail at the data layer. We’ll be discussing why even modern data warehouses can create new roadblocks, and how a different approach to data management can make your enterprise…
Denodo Users Gain 345% ROI, 3–4x Faster Time-to-Insight, and Other Advantages, When Deployed alongside a Data Lakehouse
Study conducted by Veqtor8 finds delayed projects and $millions at risk when enterprises operate lakehouses without a logical data layer
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