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For Whom the Bell Tolls: What the D&B/Lattice Acquisition Means for B2B Marketers

Rev

Well, the data-driven company acquisition race continues at full throttle. On June 13th, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) announced their own B2B data play – the intended acquisition of customer data platform Lattice Engines. In the realm of acquisitions though, they haven’t made a strong showing. Head spinning yet?

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. The Chatter group that Salesforce set up for Dreamforce itself struck me as a perfect example: it was filled with largely irrelevant noise that made it nearly impossible to see the useful information. Or maybe I'm being naive.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Marketo’s Take on Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Acquisition

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. We believe that marketing is undergoing a deep transformation driven by large-scale trends such as the rise of self-directed consumers and broad and instant availability of information online. Where marketing is going. Independently rated the leader.

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

LeadSloth

Everybody expected Salesforce.com to make a first move, but Oracle surprised us here :- ). People asked my opinion on this acquisition. Selling the company to a well-known software company may be a very good outcome for Market2Lead (speculation, I have no inside information on this). Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal.

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New developments in B2B marketing list acquisition

Biznology

Then, Leadspace scours the Internet, social networks and scores of contact databases for look-alikes and immediately delivers prospect names, fresh contact information and additional data about their professional activities. How LevelEleven took its prospecting to the next level. Conferences and trade shows, like Dreamforce.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

billion acquisition of LinkedIn. It gives Microsoft access to a rich trove of personal and company information, something it didn’t have before (although Microsoft probably collected more personal and company data than most of us realize). Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2