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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

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It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system. There’s less value to sharing B2B strengths in execution, since each group builds and deploys programs independently. (In

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ExactTarget Acquires Pardot: Great Exit for Pardot, Questionable Future for ExactTarget

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ExactTarget announced its acquisition today of mid-tier marketing automation vendor Pardot , for just under $100 million ($95.5 But Pardot was also the only major marketing automation competitor without serious outside funding. million, to be exact). If history repeats, ExactTarget may not get the lift it expects.