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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

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The immediate take-away here is that the industry still needs to educate prospective buyers on why marketers need a separate system. But even though modern database technology allows one system to handle both CRM transactions and analytical marketing queries, this does take an appropriate design. Vendors take note.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I would also put another group — one more focused on helping marketing align with, support, and enable sales: firms like BrightMarket, einsof, Longwood Software, and Salesforce.com with their Saleforce Content offering, to name a few. 9) Collaboration — capabilities like wikis, sales-contributed content, voting and tagging.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. There are four primary buckets of technology solutions aimed at solving the “how do I make lead generation activities more effective?”