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

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I still suspect they will, driven by the need for ever-closer cooperation between marketing and sales teams in managing prospect relationships. by Market2Lead CMO Kevin Joyce for a good statement of the separatist position.) (The past is so much easier to predict than the future.) See Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

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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. Market2Lead had something similar but is no longer sold.) Marketo is releasing Revenue Cycle Analytics in stages.

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

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Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics. It will also be competing with Eloqua, Silverpop and, perhaps most dangerously, the Market2Lead technology recently purchased by Oracle.

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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. adding too many features would harm the vendors own sales as well. The question is how you interpret this.

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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. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction 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. 9 Now what?

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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. Rather, it sells preconfigured applications that use the platform for specific purposes including sales pipeline analysis, order analysis, and (just released) sales lead analysis.