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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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But many vendors have recently taken others: - Eloqua , Silverpop , True Influence and at least one other vendor I can’t name are planning new interfaces that they believe will substantially improve ease of use, which they see as the critical barrier blocking many potential buyers. LoopFuse’s price-driven approach is one such strategy.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. Eloqua and Market2Lead are based on sales automation data, but can incorporate external tables. (For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

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

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by Market2Lead CMO Kevin Joyce for a good statement of the separatist position.) As Joe Moloney was listing the limits that Salesforce.com places on mass access to client data, I recalled that these are in place fundamentally to avoid large analytical queries that could slow down response for all other users of the shared systems.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 4

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Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B complex 11 8.5 The main result of the conversations so far has been to clarify the items related to lead routing. The relative ranking of the different vendors hasn't been significantly affected. Here, then, is the final usability matrix.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Eloqua and Silverpop are the obvious candidates. Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets. and Web analytics ( Adobe Omniture , IBM Coremetrics , WebTrends ). A few might survive as independents serving the most sophisticated clients. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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Oracle Integrates On Demand Marketing with On Demand CRM

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If I were more on the ball, I would have noticed that May 25 marked a full year since Oracle bought the intellectual property* of high-end B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead. Oracle’s new Marketing system supports this with a separate analytical database, which is essential for advanced revenue reporting such as time-series analysis.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

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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. The question here is whether most demand generation systems ( Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Market2Lead , Manticore , etc.) There may be a quiz.)