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Oracle Buys ATG: Bad News for Marketing Automation?

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Since Oracle is already strong in offline ERM and offline analytics, ATG leaves Oracle just one slice short of a pie. In other words, Oracle needs a Web analytics product. I’d say the ATG purchase lessens the odds of Oracle buying a marketing automation vendor. So much for the obvious.

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Marketo's Enterprise Edition and Revenue Cycle Management: Looking Under the Hood

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I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Revenue Cycle Analytics breaks some important new ground. As I commented in an earlier post on purchase funnel measurement , Marketo’s approach is not conceptually unique.

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

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This means it had to be possible for clients to purchase and configure the system, learn how to use it and resolve support issues with next to no involvement by LoopFuse staff. Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

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When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. Since ease of use ranks in the pre-purchase group, that would seem to favor simplicity. I’d guess the latter.

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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. 9 Now what?

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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.