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How RightWave Solves the Marketing Automation Skill Shortage

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketing automation vendors have adopted different strategies to deal with their problem, including making their systems easier to use, offering extensive training, and providing services to run the systems for their clients. rightwave marketing automation adoption marketing automation industry trends b2b marketing automation'

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Openprise Gives Marketers Easy(ish) Tool to Manage Their Data

Customer Experience Matrix

When I first described Customer Data Platforms two and half years ago, all the vendors offered an application such as predictive analytics or campaign management in addition to the "pure" CDP function of building the customer database. Current clients use Openprise in more modest ways, however.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

Customer Experience Matrix

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. This is why Callidus is a good buyer.

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Bislr: A "Marketing Operating System" That Includes Marketing Automation As An App

Customer Experience Matrix

This is something I’ve already thought and written about quite a bit, but the discussion did advance my understanding of whether any marketing automation vendor gains a business advantage if third party applications can connect to all of them. date from the mid-2000s and were originally built to feed leads to Salesforce.com.

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Drive Budget Planning with the “IT Hierarchy of Needs”

The ROI Guy

IT as a Cost Center Tracking year over year growth in IT spending over the past decade, we see that growth trends follow the macro-economy, but with rather shorter periods of negative growth. Costs are being cut with as-a-service applications such as Salesforce.com. So will this budget season prove to be scarier than most?