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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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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. I discussed RPM with both Eloqua and Marketo during Dreamforce. Perhaps RPM is a way for marketing automation vendors to attract Salesforce's attention as a potential strategic acquisition. Or maybe I'm being naive.

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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 founded Marketo with an unwavering vision about where marketing was headed, and have been the innovator in the space ever since. This is and will continue to be our sole mission at Marketo. Where marketing is going. Customer support.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. The acquisition is significant on several levels. I still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider.

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ReachForce Buys SetLogik: One-Stop-Shopping for B2B Marketing Data Plus Database

Customer Experience Matrix

The SetLogik acquisition takes this a step further by letting them build databases to hold their data, thereby expanding the market beyond people with a database already in place. Conversely, having a readily-available data source encourages marketers to build their own database.

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IBM May Buy Silverpop: B2B Marketing Automation and B2C Email Would Be Great Fit

Customer Experience Matrix

Plus, there just aren’t that many enterprise software companies who still need what Silverpop is offering: Oracle and Salesforce.com have already made their purchases, Adobe is part of the way there with Neolane, and SAS and Teradata have their own tools and are probably less interested in B2B because most buyers are small or mid-size firms.