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The ANNUITAS Perspective on the Adobe Acquisition of Marketo

ANNUITAS

A Memo from CEO Adam Needles to ANNUITAS clients on the Adobe Acquisition of Marketo. – A short second … this is a welcome acquisition. That’s important because too often this type of acquisition results in mass talent exodus. Good morning. You probably saw that late yesterday Adobe bought Marketo.

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Yesterday's News: Marketo Plans IPO, Eloqua Eyes B2C

Customer Experience Matrix

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected. I wholly agree with the theory.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: March 28

Martech

Conversica’s Conversational AI solution now integrates into platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, Hubspot Marketing Hub and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing. Twilio’s Twilio Flex has two new programs: Unified Profiles and Agent Copilot.

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86% of Software Buyers Use Peer Review Sites to Make a Purchase. How Discoverable is Your Brand?

Directive Agency

In fact, 86% of software buyers use peer review sites when buying software. Ensure the directory ranks high on a search for “best (your primary software category).” At PartnerStack, we ran a 3-month pilot on a directory that doesn’t rank on the first page of our primary buyer search term, “best partner management software.”

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7 Reasons Why Oracle's Market2Lead Acquisition Makes a Lot of Sense

LeadSloth

This is the first transaction involving a major software vendor, so it deserves some notice. People asked my opinion on this acquisition. Actually in 2006, when I was a marketing manager at a software company in San Francisco, I selected Market2Lead as our Marketing Automation system. Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal.

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IBM Buys Unica: Will Acquisitions Now Shift to B2B Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

This is wholly unsurprising: as the last and only big independent left in its space, Unica was obvious acquisition bait. Conversely, IBM is on a customer intelligence acquisition spree that has already included Coremetrics Web analytics, Sterling Commerce B2B integration and Cognos business analytics. But you already knew that.

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Acquisitions Reshape the Marketing Automation Industry: Growth at the Bottom, Room in the Middle, Fog at the Top

Customer Experience Matrix

Sadly, the wave of acquisitions that swept the industry in the past year has made this harder: many major vendors are now part of a public company, which severely restricts the information they can share. We can no longer see the growth rates for mid-market heavy weights Pardot and Eloqua , but I’d be surprised if they beat Marketo.