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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Alterian Branches Out

Customer Experience Matrix

It was Alterian 's turn this week in my continuing tour of marketing automation vendors. As I’ve mentioned before, Alterian has pursued a relatively quiet strategy of working through partners—largely marketing services providers (MSPs)—instead of trying to sell their software directly to corporate marketing departments.

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Unica Strategy Stays the Course

Customer Experience Matrix

I recently caught up with Unica Vice President Andrew Hally as part of my review of developments at the major marketing automation vendors. On the product front, they continue their long-time strategy of offering all the software a marketing department would need. So perhaps the replacement market will be bigger than it seems.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. Others are sure to follow. But that makes the acquisition still more intriguing.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

’&# And obviously, this study covered only users of Microsoft messenging system. “We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. New mobility solutions at the Cisco Mobility Resource Center.

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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

knowledge management. managing wiki growth. Web Content 2007. A practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organization. 10 case studies from education show how to collaboratively build curriculum, guide students teamwork, and manage research projects. k12online06. laptop stolen.

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Marketo’s 1,000th Blog Post: Our Modern Marketing Definition Revisited

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It seems fitting to commemorate the occasion by revisiting our very first post, “ Modern B2B Marketing Defined ”, and commenting on what’s changed – and what hasn’t – since August 8, 2006. It’s our job as marketers to adapt. Marketing can’t get away with not being accountable (fortunately CMOs can prove impact).