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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. Proving that a particular activity caused the buyer to make a decision to purchase is hard to do. The MAP is not always the system of record.

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Yesterday's News: Marketo Plans IPO, Eloqua Eyes B2C

Customer Experience Matrix

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected. I wholly agree with the theory.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. per share, which comes to $871 million.

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The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms

Webbiquity

Today’s virtual event platforms are adding features like virtual expo halls and exhibitor booths, 3D environments and avatars, social media integration, gamification, one-to-one video networking, content libraries, and detailed attendee activity analytics. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor.

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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

“We just signed up for this Eloqua thing. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. Tracking prospect activity on our website. They barely trust vendor websites at all. I’d just been hired by Red Hat, an upstart open-source company with a lot of momentum.

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ExactTarget and Eloqua Stake Their Claim To Centralized Customer Management

Customer Experience Matrix

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. But it took a little while to connect with the vendors to get the details, so I’m only now ready to write about them. So it’s all good.

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6Sense Finds B2B Prospects Using Web Site Activities

Customer Experience Matrix

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels. and key activities (Web site visits, topics researched) and scores at both company and individual levels.