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Vendor Selection: Writing a Good Requirements Document

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These should be packaged into a formal requirements document so you have them all in one place, easily organized and available to share with vendors. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors. These same elements should appear in pretty much any requirements document.

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Dueling Strategies: Adobe and Oracle Take Opposite Paths to Customer Experience Management

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The platform fills the center of Adobe’s three-part corporate mission to “make, manage, and measure” digital content and experiences. The other two pieces were already in place: “make” is Adobe’s original content creation business, while “measure” is Omniture Web analytics. This is certainly an advantage.

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What Really Creates Marketing Automation Success: Data from Gleanster

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I was principal author for much of the document and drafted the survey questions, although I didn’t write the individual vendor profiles or administer the survey. Research firm Gleanster released its free “Gleansight” report on marketing automation late last month. These are all factors controlled by the marketing group.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Foxes in the Henhouse: Entellium and SpringCM Advise on Hosted Service Agreements

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It's uncomfortable to write negative things, but I did feel better when I saw a paper from Entellium itself make a similar point: “Unfortunately, most hosted CRM buyers spend 95 percent of their time focusing on the features and functions that a solution contains, and nearly no time on what happens after the sales contract is signed.”

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Autonomy Ultraseek Argues There's More to Search Than You-Know-Who

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I only bring this up to explain why I won’t be writing much about balanced scorecard systems. And, although Ultraseek doesn’t mention it, Web search engines don't generally support some other features, like letting content owners tweak results to highlight particular items, that may matter in a business context.

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Chat-Based Development Changes the Build vs Buy Equation

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Typically one or the other is limited: while there may be a bottomless appetite for chocolate, there is only so much cocoa in the world; conversely, while there is a near-infinite supply of Internet content, there are only so many hours available to consume it. They probably meant “recoup”, not “write-off” their losses.)