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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. 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.

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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Database marketing and digital marketing are more different than it seems. It’s self-evident that digital marketing (mostly on the Internet, but also mobile, in-game, and eventually interactive TV) is a major change from both traditional mass media and more recent database marketing (mail, email, telemarketing, CRM).

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Pega: AI will power the autonomous enterprise

Martech

But here’s where Pega sees the revolution leading us: the continually optimizing enterprise, or, as Pega tags it, the “autonomous enterprise” — the enterprise that uses the full range of AI and automation to teach itself better processes, systems and business logic. Behind it, I can define what kind of service I want to use.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Sales Tool Investment

SalesIntel

CRM Software. CRM stands for “customer relationship management.” CRM software helps keep customer accounts organized so that your company never forgets or underserves a customer. Your CRM software is the framework for your sales team, but it does so much more than a spreadsheet could do. Marketing Automation And ABM.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend. Every major marketing automation vendor has tried to do the same.

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Dueling Strategies: Adobe and Oracle Take Opposite Paths to Customer Experience Management

Customer Experience Matrix

Nor does Adobe manage the underlying customer database, marketing campaigns, or deep analytics. Either way, marketers will certainly need other vendors' products to manage their full customer relationships. Otherwise, Adobe expects even digital content such as emails to be delivered by third party products.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. To do so efficiently requires a good database solution and marketing automation and filtration tools that incorporate social media intrinsically.