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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 ). It still doesn’t put Adobe on equal footing with Oracle , Salesforce, SAP or Microsoft , since they all have major CRM platforms which Adobe does not.

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ClickDimensions Offers Marketing Automation as a Microsoft CRM Add-on

Customer Experience Matrix

Now that I’m more or less finished launching the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) , I can start catching up on the other topics. ClickDimensions does pretty much the standard marketing automation activities: email, landing pages, Web visitor tracking, drip marketing campaigns, and lead scoring. But I digress.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. business-to-business marketing automation. business-to-business marketing automation. What will 2010 bring? 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

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How Big Is the B2B Marketing Automation Industry?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Here are my estimates for the size of the B2B marketing automation industry, broken down by customer segments. I've been working madly on my new report on B2B marketing automation vendors. These methods all yield similar figures -- around a $200 million in revenue for 2010. Services are also excluded.

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go.

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What if CRM had not been invented?

ViewPoint

Last month we discussed Counterfactual Reflection (CR) as it pertains to marketing automation. There were lively comments about where individuals would be if marketing automation had not been invented. This focus helps us refine the use of marketing automation and enhance the arguments for its implementation.

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7 Content Marketing Tasks to Automate Right Now

Content Marketing Institute

Rapid advances in AI technologies mean marketing automation is no longer optional. Not all content marketing tasks can or should be automated. But as you go through your daily content tasks, it’s worth asking, “Can this be automated?” Many daily #contentmarketing tasks can be automated, says @IamAaronAgius Click To Tweet.