ServiceNow to establish an AI Innovation Hub in Canada Element AI Co-founder, Dr. Yoshua Bengio, winner of the 2018 Turing Award, will serve as a technical advisor for ServiceNow ServiceNow announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Element AI, it’s fourth recent acquisition in the AI space. Element AI will enhance ServiceNow’s intelligent workflow […]
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Robot Influencers Are Reshaping the World of Social Media
Introducing … your new digital influencer, a non-human! Around 7% of companies are looking to invest over a million dollars in influencer marketing in 2020. It’s no wonder that influencer marketing is a lucrative business and this is the reason why so many companies are launching robot influencers to post content on behalf of […]
Working in the age of Alexa: Is your job at risk?
Depending on your age, your first knowledge of robots and artificial intelligence probably came from science fiction, TV shows, or movies. Whether it was from watching the seemingly sentient computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the hunting mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451, or even the droids in Star Wars, we’ve been conditioned to believe that robots, computers, […]
ActiveCampaign VP predicts its machine learning features will offer an alternative to A/B testing in e-mail marketing
A company called ActiveCampaign is trying to help marketers frustrated by A/B tests that fail to improve the results of e-mail campaigns with a machine learning-based application designed to predict what’s most likely to trigger an opening or other form of engagement. Based in Chicago, ActiveCampaign had already launched a tool called Predictive Sending this […]
Robots are coming to take your job — so become a robot commander
Accidentally running over a toddler, falling into a fountain, and getting kicked over by a drunk guy – Knightscope’s robots have experienced some tough days on the job. The incidents, all taking place in 2016, are some of the early growing pains of autonomous robots entering into more real-world environments. For decades, increasing autonomy has […]
AI could replace B2B marketing jobs within three years, based on Episerver research
The work of B2B marketing team members will be replaced, at least in part, by artificial intelligence tools within the next three years as enterprises focus on things like personalized experiences for their customers, according to a research study from Episerver. In the Nashua, N.H.-based firm’s B2B Digital Experiences Report 2019: How Companies Are Meeting Rising […]
Spiceworks gives tech vendors AI-based account intelligence and a self-serve dashboard
Spiceworks used its 2019 SpiceWorld event to discuss its recent acquisition by Ziff-Davis B2B and introduce a console along with artificial intelligence tools it said would help its tech vendor customers create more relevant and engaging marketing campaigns to IT decision makers who are ready to make purchases. Austin-based SpiceWorld is nominally an event for the […]
Marketing Nation Live: Marketo Engage gets deeper AI, expanded LinkedIn and Vidyard integrations
Adobe’s Marketo on Wednesday said it would help B2B firms trying to turn account-based marketing programs into more holistic, “epic” customer experiences via increased AI capabilities and expanded integrations with LinkedIn and Vidyard. In a virtual event called Marketing Nation Live, Adobe senior vice-president of digital experience (and former Marketo CEO) Steve Lucas discussed the […]
Oracle arms B2B firms with tools to align sales and marketing while improving CX
Oracle on Tuesday used its 2019 Openworld conference in San Francisco to introduce ways for B2B firms to bring sales and marketing data together, as well as tools to personalize and customer experiences based on a variety of contextual data. Among the updates announced as part of its customer event this week, the business software […]
Microsoft TV commercial uses snow leopards to demonstrate the business case for AI
Poaching and attacks from herders are threatening their existence, and the latest TV commercial from Microsoft showcases how its artificial intelligence software could help spot all the snow leopards that need saving. Produced by its agency Dentsu Aegis Network, the 30-second spot is introduced by rapper and musician Common, who has been featured in the software […]
Aprimo AI aims to bring speed and efficiency to B2B marketing teams’ content lifecycle
Aprimo says it wants to improve B2B marketers’ personalization capabilities and free them from manual processes with artificial intelligence technology designed to work across multiple areas of the content lifecycle. The Chicago-based firm this week introduced Aprimo AI, which combines its own proprietary machine learning with Microsoft Cognitive Services from the latter’s Azure set of […]
InsideView reaches out to Data.com customers to avoid data degradation and other risks
InsideView on Thursday launched a series of tools designed to position it as the data provider of choice for firms scrambling to replace Salesforce’s soon-to-be-discontinued Data.com service. Companies that have used Data.com’s Clean and Prospector products to fuel their customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other applications have about a year before Salesforce officially retires […]
Nearly half of B2B buyers tell PROS survey they’d pay 5% extra to get pricing instantly
While a majority of B2B buyers say they still want to deal with sales reps for complex configurations and special pricing, 48 per cent told a survey from PROS they would spend five per cent more to get pricing information right away, and most don’t want to wait more than two hours to hear back […]
Box CIO Paul Chapman opens up about the evolution of IT, working with line of business execs and more
By all means, you can try cold-calling Box CIO Paul Chapman or sending him a hopeful e-mail. You can invite him to your event, webinar or roundtable. You could reach out on social media or other channels and see if he’ll download your white paper. None of these standard marketing tactics, however, will work as […]
Accelerate the B2B sales cycle with better data: Here’s how
As a B2B sales or marketing professional, you’ve got a simple, straightforward goal: to help the business grow. If you take a look outside in early summer, you’ll see buds opening, new leaves unfurling, and shoots stretching towards the sun. And, it’s tempting to think that all growth comes with ease. To grow a business, […]
Testfire Labs CEO wants to prove AI can take the pointlessness and misery out of office meetings
Testfire Labs is applying artificial intelligence to one of the most challenging aspects of working in an enterprise — no, not finding, converting or retaining customers. Surviving the agony of office meetings. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Testfire Labs’s initial product is bot dubbed Hendrix.ai, that captures and transcribes conversations from business meetings. Beyond acting as a […]
Forrester VP shows how machine learning lets B2B firms treat customers like royalty
Most B2B organizations probably treat their customers as slightly more mature than the recently-born Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, but Forrester VP and principal analyst Mike Gualtieri suggests they should hold just as much of an interest as “Baby Sussex.” Speaking at an event focused on digital decision-making hosted by analytics firm FICO in Toronto on Wednesday, […]
True Influence aims beyond ‘raw volume intent signals’ with InsightBase 3.0 to offer contact-level data
True Influence on Thursday will launch an upgraded version of its InsightBase tool that will compete with the likes of Bombora in offering intent data to connect B2B marketers with the exact prospects who are actively in-market for products or services. Based in Princeton, N.J., True Influence will officially announce InsightBase 3.0 at the Martech […]
DemandBase/Salesforce Pardot study shows only 18% of B2B marketers using AI
The opportunity to double revenue would seem like a good reason to deploy technology, but despite 85 per cent of B2B marketers believe artificial intelligence could accomplish this in two years less than 20 per cent have formally started using it, according to a study from DemandBase and Salesforce Pardot. Based on an analysis of […]
Marketing Nation: Marketo Engage weaves in Adobe AI and launches ‘Conversational ABM’ with Drift
Marketo’s Marketing Nation became an event-within-an-event at Adobe Summit on Thursday, where senior vice-president Steve Lucas referenced everything from The Matix to Coachcella and Fyre Festival to explain how B2B marketers can focus on creating stronger experiences for their customers. Following its acquisition by Adobe last year, Marketo’s key product, engage, was enhanced with several […]