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Trust Me: Buyers Worry Too Much About Software Costs

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I ranted a bit the other week about buyers who focus too much on software license fees and not enough on differences in productivity. The key to that argument is that software costs are a relatively small portion of companies’ total investment in a business intelligence system. software costs 16.2%.integration

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List of Mid-Tier Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation Systems

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Decision Software Inc. ClickSquared – originally a marketing services provider but now repositioning itself as cloud-based campaign management software. Portrait Software – purchased by Pitney Bowes in July 2010 and now part of the Pitney Bowes Business Insight group, along with former MapInfo and Group 1 Software products.

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More on Marketo Financials: Despite Past Losses, Prospects Are Bright

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The table below throws in a reasonable guess for 2008 as well. Let’s assume a "normal" revenue of $200,000 per employee, which is about typical for software companies (and matches published figures for Marketo competitors Aprimo and Unica ). at the end of 2008 and dropped to 5.7 million in 2009 and $21 million in 2010.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

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There was actually another dated 6/01/2208, which I treated as 2008. In any case, the ten deployments in the first four months of 2009 (or 12 if you count the two future dates) and 12 in 2008 highlights the newness and fast growth of the demand generation industry. the system itself 0.67 How would you rate your experience with.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

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Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Tags: marketing system ROI marketing automation businses case software selection demand generation.

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Insights from Eloqua's IPO Registration Statement

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Client counts are reported only for 2008 through mid 2011. Operating expenses grew sharply through 2008, nearly outpacing revenue. Software-as-a-service vendors in particular love to point out that they get a recurring revenue stream from each customer, so there are future profits that are masked by first-year sales expenses.

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SAS Adds Real Time Decisioning to Its Marketing Systems

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This is an accurate reflection of SAS’s fundamental software strategy, which is to leverage generic capabilities by packaging them for specific business areas. This is a brand new, SAS-developed module, set for release in December with initial deployments in first quarter 2008. So is Profitability Management. Back to integration.