Hootsuite has launched the Global Agency Partner Program, which is designed to provide education and resources to agency account teams regarding the latest social media trends and strategies.

Announced at the company’s Connect via Hootsuite event in New York City, the program will provide members with training workshops, networking opportunities with industry leaders and support for specific business needs and client delivery models.

Cloudwords, a translation management technology provider, announced that it has integrated with Oracle Marketing Cloud. The integration is designed to provide global marketers using Oracle technology the ability to automate the process of managing and localizing marketing content across international markets.

The integrations are intended for Cloudwords to offer support for Oracle’s newest technologies and to help users in their multilingual marketing initiatives.

Salesfusion has entered into partnerships with three SugarCRM VARs in a move designed to further expand the user base for its marketing automation platform. Epicom, based in Austin, Highland Solutions, based in Chicago, and Synolia of Lyon, France, will offer and promote Salesfusion to thousands of SugarCRM customers worldwide.

Salesfusion began targeting SugarCRM customers in 2012 and many clients, including Pingtone, Medicat and Delmo, use the joint solution today, according to Bentley Hines, VP of Alliances at Salesfusion.

Oracle announced new features and enhancements to the Oracle Marketing Cloud at its Oracle Modern Marketing Experience event in London, including updates positioned to enable CMOs and global marketing teams to deliver more personalized and contextual customer experiences, simplifying marketing campaign management and extending the industry’s most comprehensive marketing technology ecosystem.

The new features and enhancements are supported by further integrations across Oracle’s range of marketing solutions, which include Oracle Cross-Channel Marketing (Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud Service and Oracle Responsys Marketing Platform Cloud Service), Oracle Data Management Platform, Oracle Content Marketing and Oracle Social Marketing.

Over the past few years, Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event has evolved into something more than just a conference or a trade show. With well over 100,000 people in attendance this year, and celebrities such as Al Gore and Hillary Clinton crowding the keynote bill, Dreamforce has turned — for better or for worse — into a cultural phenomenon for the tech industry.

Look past the traffic jams and Hawaiian music, however, and there’s still a lot happening for anyone interested in marketing technology — especially in terms of how the industry is pushing towards tighter integration of the cloud-based marketing technology stack.

Gagein announced the next generation of its sales productivity tools as well as upgrades to its Salesforce edition at Dreamforce.

The application is positioned as a tool that uses artificial intelligence, Big data analysis and predictive algorithms to find actionable sales triggers from online news.

Brainshark announced the launch of Brainshark Sales Accelerator, a platform designed to boost sales onboarding, training and prospecting to help new sales reps close deals in less time.

The platform, which was unveiled at Dreamforce, is also positioned to help managers analyze the performance of reps and content to help identify how specific content affects sales cycles and coach sales reps more effectively.