Marketing automation vendor Marketo and business application provider Infor today announced a partnership to integrate and cross-sell their customer experience systems. The match-up makes perfect sense: both companies offer cloud-based systems sold primarily to the mid-sized companies, and Marketo fills a gap in the Infor product line, which has CRM but not B2B marketing automation. Marketo has been repositioning itself as an option for B2C marketing, but Infor already has solutions in that area.

ClearStory Data announced new capabilities for “automated smart data discovery”, which makes it easier to find patterns in business data. ClearStory’s focus is data analysis, but it also automates data preparation and unification. So we’re back on CDP turf. Spark is once again listed as a key technology.

T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.