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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007. and Web analytics ( Adobe Omniture , IBM Coremetrics , WebTrends ). The more interesting question is who will be the buyers. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

I still think that’s the case, but did revisit the topic recently in a conversation with Ken Rudin, CEO of on-demand business analytics vendor Lucid Era. Of course, it also resurrects the customization and integration issues that the application-based strategy was intended to avoid. There may be a quiz.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz. 3) Online activity analytics — rather than examine overall site traffic and usage patterns like Omniture and WebTrends, these tools focus more on tracking what one individual or opportunity is doing.

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Demand Generation Systems Shift Focus to Tracking Behavior

Customer Experience Matrix

Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and been on the receiving end of a drip marketing stream from yet another (Moonray Marketing, lately renamed OfficeAutoPilot ). However, those analytics are not yet in place.