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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007. These include content management systems ( Autonomy Interwoven , EMC Documentum , OpenText , etc.) Finally, we come to Web marketing companies.

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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

And we’ll probably see marketing capabilities added by SaaS vendors in related industries such as email services (early example: Silverpop ’s acquisition of Vtrenz, now Engage B2B) and Web content management (see my reviews of Marqui and SiteCore ).

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. I think the idea of an iTunes™ -like interface — and pay-as-you-go pricing structure — for viewing, sorting, and selecting B2B contacts is intriguing. Just makes it easier to manage all the stuff.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.