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Oracle Buys ATG: Bad News for Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

But if you look back at my “doughnuts and pizza slices” post on software acquisitions , it does make perfect sense. Nor have I forgotten that Oracle already bought marketing automation vendor Market2Lead, plugging a different set of holes. That also leads further away from standard marketing automation.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets.

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Will Marketing Automation Be Free?

LeadSloth

Industry consolidation is starting (Market2lead acquired, LeadGenesys refocused). Some vendors will sell below cost to gain market share, so higher prices or acquisitions may follow. Please leave a comment with your prediction… Webinar: The Secret To Creating Lead Nurturing Content That Converts. What is your take?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

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Oracle Integrates On Demand Marketing with On Demand CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

If I were more on the ball, I would have noticed that May 25 marked a full year since Oracle bought the intellectual property* of high-end B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead. This is largely because Marketing systems typically contain many more leads than Sales wants in CRM. I wonder if they had cake?

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The 2010 marketing technology proto-landscape did consolidate by 61%

chiefmartech

having acquired Eloqua, Responsys, Market2Lead, ATG, RightNow, Maxymiser, BlueKai, NetSuite, and Endeca ( plus many more not included on my 2010 proto-landscape). Over 10 years, approximately 65% of businesses end (although I wouldn’t call a good exit-by-acquisition an unhappy ending). It wasn’t Martechageddon.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.