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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

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The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. This would translate to around $7 million revenue, for a price of just over 1x revenue, compared with 4 to 5x revenue in other recent acquisitions. This is why Callidus is a good buyer.

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SetLogik Offers B2B Marketers a Real Marketing Database

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I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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Lead Genius Adds a Dash of Artificial Intelligence to Account Based Marketing

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But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Response data can also be posted to Salesforce.com or Marketos, with additional integrations planned for the near future. Pricing is tailored to each client. Lead Genius is a good example.

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Reborn AutoPilot Aims to Simplify Multi-Channel Marketing

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These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. The company’s other differentiator is a seriously aggressive pricing model. The difference is in the details.

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Vocus Marketing Suite: Still Mostly Social But Marketing Automation is On the Way

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But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. It lacks the Salesforce.com integration of B2B systems (due early next year), the lightweight CRM of micro-business systems, and the lead scoring and distribution of both.

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

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Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com. Indeed, my take on the ExactTarget deal explicitly mentioned an Adobe/Neolane possibility.

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Teradata Integrates Its Marketing Automation Acquisitions for Enterprise Marketers

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Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. All of this doesn''t come cheap: Teradata aims at clients with at least $500 million revenue and sets is prices accordingly.