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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react.

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Oracle Buys Market2Lead Intellectual Assets

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle tersely announced today that it had purchased the intellectual assets of demand generation vendor Market2Lead. This is an excellent fit for Oracle in that Market2Lead is a sophisticated product that is best suited to large, demanding marketing operations. Tags: demand generation marketing automation market2lead oracle.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Act-On Software : a slightly different take, with strong Webinar support and an option to use its own low-cost sales automation system as an alternative to Salesforce.com Price starts at $499 per month. Just kidding.or

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Oracle Integrates On Demand Marketing with On Demand CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

If I were more on the ball, I would have noticed that May 25 marked a full year since Oracle bought the intellectual property* of high-end B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead. The unified data structure allows unified reporting across the customer buying process. Once this is done, Market2Lead will complete its shutdown.

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How Demand Generation Systems Handle Company Data: Diving into the Details

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are the questions I asked, with summaries of answers from the five vendors in the current Raab Guide ( Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketo , Vtrenz ) plus two I’ll be adding shortly ( Marketbright and Neolane.) SFDC" stands for Salesforce.com.) Eloqua volunteered that they couldn’t do this, which I appreciated.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. We generate, score and manage leads to sales completion and integration with Salesforce.com.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

4) “Pure play” lead management – this group is lead by Eloqua , but there are a LOT of firms throwing their hat into this ring including Vtrenz, Hubspot, Manticore, Market2Lead, Marketo, LoopFuse, einsof, iHance, Precience, among many others. That I’m sure to hear about them since I know I’ve missed adding many to this list.)