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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. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.) (I profiled them in a February 2011 post.)

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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

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You know that red-hot B2B marketing automation industry? Our just-released update to the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Toolkit (VEST) shows that client counts grew just over 50% over the year ending in June, compared with nearly 100% growth for the year ending last December.

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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

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Marketo made good today on its promise to file for an initial public offering (IPO). The S-1 registration statement gives considerable new information about Marketo’s business. million, an impressive 80% growth rate vs. 2011 although not quite the doubling that the company had forecast earlier. It’s a major accomplishment.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

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The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration.

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Raab Report: B2B Marketing Automation Industry Is Getting More, Not Less, Fragmented

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I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. It's only in the later stages of consolidation – after crossing Geoffrey Moore’s chasm – that the dominant vendors really take control.

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Why Is B2B Marketing Automation Growing So Slowly?

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Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. That means even the absolute increase was down: $11.2

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And Our Forecast of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue for 2013 is.

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I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues.