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SAP Buys hybris e-commerce Software to Build Its Version of Real Time Customer Management

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Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name).

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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2 It's also one foundation of the MadTech vision I offered last year.

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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. These are advanced features for consumer marketing automation and almost unheard of in B2B systems. responsive design").

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

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Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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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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I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. I also still expect that Salesforce will continue to enhance its core Sales application with features that make it better at specific marketing automation functions like complex campaign flows and Web tracking. Or maybe I'm being naive.

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

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This is the first transaction involving a major software vendor, so it deserves some notice. Everybody expected Salesforce.com to make a first move, but Oracle surprised us here :- ). People asked my opinion on this acquisition. This is the first serious Marketing Automation initiative by a major software player.

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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. Still, with more than 500 clients, including many ad agencies, MarketingPilot is a significant player in the larger marketing software universe. (I Financial terms were not disclosed.