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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. Even though the Techgrity deal is the first direct acquisition I recall of a social media monitoring system by a marketing automation vendor, it strikes me as an obvious step. Others are sure to follow.

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Doughnuts and Pizza Slices: Analyzing Consolidation and Competition Among Software Vendors

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I find the combination of doughnuts and pizza slices a useful way to think about the relationships among industry vendors. Functional vendors generally expand first by thickening features within their original quadrant and then by spreading into adjacent quadrants. Keeping with our junk food theme, let's call those pizza slices.

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[x+1] Origin Digital Marketing Hub Offers Cross-Channel Decision Management

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My recent posts on real time decision systems have all described products from vendors of batch-oriented, outbound campaign management systems. Expansion to real time decisions helps those vendors cement their strategic position as a complete solution for marketing departments. You would be correct. [x+1] deployment model.

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More Thoughts on Comparing Demand Generation Systems

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The issue I’m wresting with is still how to present vendor summaries. As of last week’s post , I had decided to build a list of applications plus some common issues such as vendor background, technology and pricing. I can make a similar basic/advanced distinction for the non-application features (vendor, technology, etc.),

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Looking for Differences in MPP Analytical Databases

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The same rule seems to apply to analytical databases: each vendor has its own little twist that makes it unique, if not necessarily better than the competition. As it happens, all the vendors in this group stress their ability to handle “mixed workloads”. A data warehouse for the rest of us” is how he puts it.

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