The CMO job has evolved into both a right-brain and left-brain skill set. CMOs must balance the creative aspects of their role with an increase in the use of data driven decisions and investment of technology required to achieve corporate objectives. A new focus on context will trump the traditional focus on content and brand. Why? Context will improve the relevancy required to improve precision marketing. Roles, relationships, product ownerships, interactions, time, location, intent, and even sentiment in the digital world, will help with marketing in the analog world. More importantly, the cloud provides CMOs with many options to procure the technologies they need with minimal IT involvement. As the CMO role evolves into the Chief Digital Officer, Constellation's research and advisory helps CMOs understand how to navigate into this new world and balance increased speed and reduced time to market with the IT needs for integration, scalability, and long term cost challenges. Constellation focuses on the techniques and technologies to efficiently and effectively elevate the brand, improve targeting, establish relationships, avert crisis, and resolve incidents.
Salesforce delivered better than expected first quarter results and upped its outlook for the second quarter. The company said it saw strength in Data Cloud and AI annual recurring revenue.
Can data, AI and agility enable merchants to navigate economic volatility and scattershot tariff policies? Shopify is betting on it.
ServiceNow's CRM's pitch is relatively simple: Solve issues fast, adapt, run customer operations at half the cost and go live quickly. The approach is to service, sell and deliver on one platform that combines AI, data from multiple systems including inventory, contracts and operations and workflows.
In the Artificial Intelligence world, there's Ray's Law. AI capabilities double every 7 months. At this seven month doubling rate, in two years, this will be a 1500% increase. In six years, AI intelligence capability will be 10,0000%.
