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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua and Silverpop are the obvious candidates. Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Or disagree with the list…) On the other side, I see solutions more oriented toward marketing and enabling a “pull” model, one focused on letting prospects engage at their own pace. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand. 3) Marketing automation – lead by firms like Aprimo, Unica, Oracle/Siebel and SAS, this category is at the core of what Forrester calls the Marketing Technology Backbone. We can broaden our available market."