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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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List of Mid-Tier Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

The world clearly has more B2B marketing automation vendors than it needs – my master list of demand generation products includes two dozen. By contrast, mid-tier consumer marketers often have a hard time finding good options. Many marketing service providers manage Alterian systems for their clients.

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Teradata Integrates Its Marketing Automation Acquisitions for Enterprise Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Last year’s biggest marketing automation acquisitions were products for consumer marketing: ExactTarget by Salesforce.com , Neolane by Adobe , and Responsys by Oracle. Consumer marketers have had their own, highly sophisticated marketing automation systems for years.

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Teradata Sells Its Marketing Applications Business for $90 Million

Customer Experience Matrix

Teradata announced on Friday that it had signed a deal to sell its marketing applications business for $90 million to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners. The sale involves the former Aprimo, eCircle, FLXone data management platform, and other cloud-based marketing products. That was what had been rumored.

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Seismic acquires Percolate, unifies “two essential pillars” of martech stack

ClickZ

Sales enablement platform Seismic has acquired Percolate , a marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Percolate’s technology falls between a “content marketing platform” and a “marketing resource management tool.” Percolate was founded in 2011.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Humanity-Infused Marketing: 6 Martech Tools/Techniques That Enable Connection

ClearVoice

However, while technology allows you to connect with your targeted market, it is also possible for technology to create a rift between your clientele and your business. In a way, transactions may become just that — system enabled delivery of a product or service that lacks the human element. An example of humanized corporate marketing.