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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

Customer Experience Matrix

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists. Vtrenz is clearly a major vendor, so nothing is at stake here except bragging rights. (See

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007.

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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Consumer-oriented marketing automation systems have been slower to adopt the Software-as-a-Service model than business marketing (demand generation) systems. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the standard model for business-to-business marketing automation (a.k.a. demand generation) systems.

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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

The company also reworked the user interface--of more than 200 total changes in this upgrade, about 75 were tied to usability--although it still takes the same basic approach of building campaigns as lists of steps, rather than branching flow charts. The changes that Fernandez described seemed good but subtle.

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Marketo Releases Marketo Lead Management 3.0

WebMarketCentral

Pricing starts at $1,500 per month and the company now has more than 150 midmarket and enterprise customers. Marketo competes with products such as Eloqua , Silverpop Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz), Marketbright and Manticore in the marketing automation / demand generation space.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

My inner database geek was excited to learn that the company uses a version of the columnar database originally developed by Broadbase (later merged with Kana ), which is now open source LucidDB. Campaign analysis in demand generation systems. There may be a quiz.)