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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. recently, so $23.50

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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

“We just signed up for this Eloqua thing. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. Plus, marketing was getting some extra respect in board meetings. MQLs (Marketing Qualified Leads). Marketing/sales alignment was never better.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

The Point

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. Most marketing automation failures come about from a lack of strategy. Plenty. .

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The Convergence of Marketing Automation and Account-Based Marketing

Engagio

Campaign Management was mostly industry-agnostic — B2C, B2B, B2B2C, it didn’t matter — which also meant that it mostly catered to the lowest common denominator, usually B2C. You know the story here, Marketo, Eloqua and a few others came to quickly dominate the B2B marketing world. Check it out here.

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Raab Report: Neolane, Aprimo, and Eloqua Rate Highest for Large Company B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

The chart shows Neolane and Aprimo (owned by Teradata) as the clear leaders, with Eloqua also very strong. Marketo and Oracle (specifically, Oracle CRM On Demand Marketing ) are considerably further back in the leader quadrant. Both are general purpose marketing automation systems that serve large numbers of B2C as well as B2B clients.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.