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.

Bombora has launched Visitor Insights, a consent-based website tag that tracks the topics a device has consumed.   It infers intent, job function, management level, and other information that B2B publishers can use for ad targeting and personalization.  This Bombora report shows intent trends by industry: for example, media and advertising users show 70% more interest in Customer Data Platforms than they did last year.