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I spent time with Qualtrics at its March X4 event and came away with one big idea that I just can’t shake: synthetic data. For the uninitiated, synthetic data duplicates, mimics, or extrapolates from the real world but maintains no direct link to it. In the context of research, you’ll often hear of synthetic humans […]

Learn how Forrester’s total experience model elevates CX strategy by revealing the drivers behind acquisition, retention, and revenue. Join the live webinar on May 12.

The new report, “The Customer Feedback Management And Analytics Solutions Landscape, Q1 2026,” is live. Learn what CX leaders should know about this mature market and how to choose strategically.

The chief data officer role has matured. Today’s CDO must drive decisions, trust, and organizational change — not just deliver insights.

Our 2026 B2B POY Awards recognize companies that have raised the bar in marketing, revenue, product, and customer engagement. Get a preview of the stories they will share at B2B Summit North America.

Cross-functional alignment has never been more important for B2B companies than it is right now. Get a preview of our ROI Honors winners and the alignment success stories they will share at B2B Summit in Phoenix.

Most financial services firms are still optimizing traditional web interfaces even as advice is shifting to conversational and agentic environments. A recent CX Cast episode examines the conversational strategies some banks are implementing as customers begin to embrace agentic in finance.

AI‑mediated search is rapidly becoming a primary entry point for financial decisions. Customers now start their banking journeys with LLM platforms, not branded sites — and they trust these tools enough to ask sophisticated, advice level questions. Solo host Martin Gill speaks with principal analyst Aurelie L’Hostis to break down this shift and what leaders must do now. Aurelie shares new data on how consumers use third‑party AI assistants for banking queries, why trust is shifting, and how AI‑powered search is reducing human traffic to brand websites. She also outlines the coming rise of agent‑to‑agent interactions and the backstage capabilities that banks must develop before conversational banking can scale.

Cowritten with Janis Teo, senior research associate Five months ago, I published a blog post about banking’s new power role, the chief digital, data, and AI officer, an executive mandate designed not just for a simple consolidation for efficiency but to unify digital, data, and AI around a single strategic vision for growth, decision-making, and […]

At KubeCon Europe 2026, Kubernetes’ AI story shifted from “add support” to “rebuild the platform.” AI conformance, upstream GPU orchestration, shared inference blueprints, and in-platform governance are setting the new defaults.

As AI absorbs execution at scale, creativity returns to its highest value. The brands that win will automate production while doubling down on insight, narrative, and the judgment that protects meaning.

Last week’s Siemens RXD Summit (Real Meets Digital) in Beijing marked a strategic milestone for the company, not only as its first RXD technology summit but also as a clear signal of how central China has become to Siemens’ global industrial AI strategy. Siemens positioned China not just as a growth market but as a […]

Since the launch of Agentforce in 2024, Salesforce has shifted from a primarily seat-based CRM vendor to an AI-first company. This pivot introduces what we describe as AI gravity: Salesforce increasingly bundles AI, data, and automation capabilities into multicloud deals that tilt negotiating leverage back toward the vendor unless buyers change how they prepare. As […]

RSAC Conference 2026 has come and gone. Gone, too, are the petting zoos of yesteryear, replaced this year by — of all things — pop-up tattoo parlors. Or as one attendee observed, “We’ve traded livestock for live needles.” This year’s attendance of over 43,500 was flat compared to 2025, but the sessions and exhibit floor […]

Before diving into agentic commerce, take stock of four lessons that social commerce taught us to make wise decisions today.

The SAP-Reltio Deal Is About Who Controls Your Future Architecture We have seen a lot of M&A activity trying to capitalize on AI hype. SAP’s acquisition of Reltio isn’t that. Instead, the acquisition is a strategic, pragmatic shot by SAP to own the master data layer and make the future enterprise architecture more interoperable, particularly […]

As AI agents move from assisting go‑to‑market teams to executing revenue workflows, B2B leaders and revenue technology providers face a fundamental design tension: How much autonomy is safe when revenue, compliance, and trust are on the line? In revenue-focused systems, the distinction between “agentish” and fully agentic AI isn’t academic. It’s existential. AI is rapidly […]

Explore “The Customer Data Platforms For B2C Landscape, Q1 2026” Forrester report and understand vendor maturity, market shifts, and CDP investment priorities.

In a recent conversation with Makoto Shibata (Head of FINOLAB and former managing director and head of the global innovation team at MUFG), I explored how stablecoins are evolving from crypto experiments into real financial infrastructure in Japan. The takeaway? Japan’s stablecoin ecosystem is no longer just living in paper and pilot. It’s real, regulated, […]