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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Although the world has certainly changed since the late 1990’s, I see no reason to expect a different pattern among demand generation vendors. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007. These include content management systems ( Autonomy Interwoven , EMC Documentum , OpenText , etc.)

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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. demand generation) systems. By contrast, the demand generation systems are newer and are sold to smaller companies, which have been early adopters of SaaS.

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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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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.)

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Online Marketing Systems Are Still Very Fragmented

Customer Experience Matrix

These include Web application servers like IBM Websphere , Web development tools like Adobe Dreamweaver , and Web content management tools like Vignette. If you compare this list of applications with the handful of seemingly integrated products, you’ll see that no product comes close to covering all the bases.