SAP has announced new suites of customer experience and data management applications. The customer experience suite, C/4HANA, unifies marketing, commerce, service, sales, and customer data products including Gigya and Callidus Cloud acquisitions. The HANA Data Management Suite collects all kinds of data, including customer information.

RetailWire also found that tech vendors are even more excited about in-store systems than the retailers themselves. Here’s news that mobile data exchange adsquare has added proximity data from Unacast to help mobile advertisers target location-based messages in real time. And here’s a study from Opus Research describing ways that retailers track customer locations within their stores for even more precise targeting.

Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.