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

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Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Adobe was on everyone’s list of potential buyers, and Neolane was ripe for acquisition or an initial public offering.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

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Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) The acquisition is significant on several levels. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

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But I did notice about two years ago that pretty much everyone in the B2B marketing automation space was more or less assuming I’d attend. All of which brings us back to B2B marketing automation. Marketing automation is clearly too small to make a serious contribution to that goal. Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

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From a Challenging Marketing Past to the Most Promising Marketing Future: Top Takeaways from the 2011 B2B Roundtable Webinars

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In April , John Johnston, eBusiness Marketing Manager for Volvo North America, outlined how he streamlined, integrated and automated lead generation for a marketing program for 20 different heavy construction segments for dealers in 125 countries. “We And much of this is happening in real time. To quickly and easily choose the best lists.

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the largest martech acquisition in history?

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billion in 2011 — and one of the largest in the history of the digital age (we’ll graciously look past that whole AOL acquiring TimeWarner fiasco ). As anyone who has switched marketing automation platforms at scale will attest.) The post Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the largest martech acquisition in history?

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Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (2018): Martech 5000 (actually 6,829)

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To appreciate the magnitude of martech’s diversity (and the effort behind this project), the size of the 2018 landscape is equivalent to all of the marketing tech landscapes we assembled from 2011 through 2016 added together : For reference, here are the 2011 , 2012 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , and 2017 versions of the landscape.

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

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This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. If you heard a loud thud late Tuesday afternoon, it was the sound of two shoes dropping.