Customer experience vendor Pegasystems has added separate programs that let independent software vendors (ISVs) and business users develop, sell, and share solutions based on the Pega platform. ISV products will be certified and sold in an online marketplace. Business users will mingle in a gamified community.

And what’s sexier than blockchain, eh? I can think of several things, but no matter. Here’s news that smart product platform EVRYTHNG has pawned its vowels to create Blockchain Integration Hub, which adds blockchain-enabled features to consumer products. They’ve partnered with three blockchain solution providers to enable functions like supply chain tracing, product authentication, and consumer rewards programs.

In the same way that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels, B2B marketers do everything that B2C marketers do with more complex data and fewer information sources.  Tech can help.  Demandbase just announced Buying Group AI, which uses you-know-what to identify buying team members and their roles.  It’s in beta for now.