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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007. The more interesting question is who will be the buyers. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors. Email marketing is another obvious adjacent space.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Just kidding.or I reviewed it here in March.