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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). I’d say that reflects a lack of enterprise systems available for Adobe to purchase, more than any particular desire to target the mid-market.

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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

Customer Experience Matrix

Here’s a piece from 2009.) And, as the two giants converge, the marketing automation industry stands between them like a mushroom, waiting to be crushed or gobbled up (if giants eat mushrooms). Web site management vendor SDL purchased Alterian last November and sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud bought LeadFormix in January.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold.

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2023 Predictions

Conversica

Here are a few thoughts I had about 2023 related to the economy, Conversation Automation, revenue teams, and more. Our company was founded in 2007 and our product launched in 2009. I think companies should be even more aggressive in their deployment of automation in 2023. 2023 Predictions. By Jim Kaskade. is dead, for sure.

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The Challenges in Adoption of Marketing Technology « The Effective.

The Effective Marketer

Companies need to be able to track and measure customer interactions from a reliable source and that has driven a lot of the recent interest in Marketing Automation and Customer Intelligence technologies. The goal is to make use of cross channel marketing strategies to target the customer at the right moment and influence purchase decisions.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

Webbiquity

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. any significant price point, non-commodity products).

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SiriusDecisions Summit 2009 – What we learned at the 2008 Summit, and why we are excited for 2009

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here at Marketo, everyone is very excited about the upcoming SiriusDecisions 2009 Summit being held May 13-15 in Scottsdale, Arizona.    We believe it is this need for tight integration between sales and marketing that has caused marketing automation to become so popular.  through opportunity completion and beyond.