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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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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. per share, which comes to $871 million.

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Raab Report: Act-On, Eloqua, Pardot, and Marketo Vie to Lead in Mid-Size B2B Marketing Automation Segment

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I’ve saved the best for last, in the sense that the small to mid-size sector is the heart of the industry and its most complicated arena. The leaders quadrant in this sector is quite crowded, with Act-On , Eloqua , Pardot , and Marketo all jostling for position. Today I’ll present the third and (mercifully?)

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Does Eloqua Compete with Aprimo and Unica?

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Not to be obsessive or anything, but I do want to respond a bit more to the anonymous comment on last Thursday’s post, which said (the comment, that is) “Eloqua is definitely a marketing automation and campaign management tool. MRM is not something Eloqua does now, but I would expect them to in the future.”

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

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Here’s some detail from the study itself (you'll have to click on this to make it legible): Eloqua Marketing Metrics Outlook 2011 You’d expect Eloqua to put out a good study on this topic, and they do. The best-in-class, average, and laggard classifications illustrate the huge gap between even average performers and best-in-class.

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Marketo Sales Insight Expands Salesforce Access to Marketing Data

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It’s irresistible to compare Sales Insight with Eloqua Prospect Profiler, launched two weeks ago (see my review ), which also gives sales people access to prospect activities gathered by the marketing system. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

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B2B Marketing Automation Growth Slowed In First Half of 2011

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The remaining five vendors in my data (Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, Manticore Technology, and Genius) have 69% of their clients in the small and mid-size segments. I like irony as much as anyone, but if the demand generation industry failed to generate demand for its own product, no one would be laughing. _ *As best we can tell.

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True Influence InsightBASE Simplifies Use of B2B Intent Data

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InsightBASE also differs from predictive marketing vendors who use intent data as inputs to their scoring systems and in some cases also provide lead lists: although predictive models almost surely do a better job of isolating the best prospects than InsightBASE’s simple profiles plus surge tracking, the models add considerable cost and complexity.