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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

Customer Experience Matrix

billion acquisition of LinkedIn. It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2

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Teradata Plans to Sell Its $200 Million Marketing Application Business. Any Takers?

Customer Experience Matrix

As you may know, Teradata’s marketing applications business was a mashup of the original Teradata marketing products, developed over the past 20 years and largely on-premise, and the Aprimo cloud-based systems acquired for $525 million in 2010. One bit of evidence: the Aprimo brand was dropped in 2013. So what happens now?

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Highlights from the 2010 Dreamforce Keynote: The Cloud Computing Event of the Year

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marc Benioff, in all his grandeur, hit the stage loud and proud sharing the success over the past year ranging from improvements to the service cloud to the mass adoption of Chatter to the acquisition of Jigsaw. Salesforce.com consumes 90% less energy than traditional software. 2010 product of the year from ReadWriteWeb and eWeek.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe was on everyone’s list of potential buyers, and Neolane was ripe for acquisition or an initial public offering. It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com. The deal is not particularly surprising.

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Whatsnexx Manages Customer States, Not Campaigns

Customer Experience Matrix

The process is this: users first define “scenarios”, which are customer processes such as acquisition, retention or complaints, and "states", which are customer types such as new, high value, or disgruntled. The company has existing Infogates for Salesforce.com, Constant Contact, Deliva and CakeMail.

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Turning Web Site Visitors into Paying Customers

Online Marketing Institute

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. Last week, his company released a tool, called Demandbase Stream, that aims to answer this question.