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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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Teradata Buys Aprimo for $525 Million: More Marketing Automation Consolidation To Come

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Given the previous Unica deal.

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Teradata Sells Its Marketing Applications Business for $90 Million

Customer Experience Matrix

Teradata announced on Friday that it had signed a deal to sell its marketing applications business for $90 million to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners. The sale involves the former Aprimo, eCircle, FLXone data management platform, and other cloud-based marketing products. That was what had been rumored.

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Marketing Automation 101

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

But in order to achieve these goals along the way, you need to align your people, process, and technology. Marketing automation technology can help. If you’re new to our blog, read on; if you’ve been around a while, consider checking out one of our more advanced posts such as The ROI of Marketing Automation.

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Building a Business Around Your Website: Post-Launch Learning for Growth

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

This piece is part of a series surrounding website development best practices as followed by Marketo’s web development team. Unfortunately, this platform does not exist—though I’m sure many parents would pay millions to have these insights. New customer marketing. Managing the Agenda and Process. Setting an Agenda.

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Oxford University Press former CMO weighs in on martech challenges, trends, and predictions

ClickZ

30-second summary: One of the biggest changes in marketing over the past 15-years is the abundance of data available. This shifted the focus from marketing creative to campaign attribution and performance. The CDP, which merges CRM data with DMP data from platforms like Salesforce is one of the more interesting trends in martech.

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Marketing Automation: What it is and How to Know if Your Firm Needs it

Hinge Marketing

What is marketing automation, and what can it do for your firm? You are able to measure results of each step of your lead generation and lead nurturing process as well as ROI of your marketing programs and campaigns. Marketing automation has been there all along. Marketing Programs. Campaign Management.