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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

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If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. By the way: tomorrow I’m presenting a webinar with SalesFUSION, a Marketing Automation vendor that focuses heavily on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (but also supports Salesforce.com, of course). What does CRM integration mean?

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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Oracle Fusion Marketing reduces the role of traditional CRMs

Martech

. “Salesforce automation has left sellers behind and has become about salesforce automation,” said Nate Skinner, Global SVP of Marketing for Oracle Advertising and CX (referring to CRM across the board, not just — but clearly including — Salesforce.com). “Very few traditional CRM systems actually help sellers sell.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. Of course, any true believer would dismiss me as part of a pre-digital generation, and therefore both obsolete and irrelevant as a human being. With 45,000 registrants, the company says that Dreamforce is now the largest technology industry gathering.

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Elevating B2B Customer Retention: Innovative Strategies for Lasting Relationships

Engagio

Revenue Stability and Growth: It’s one thing to save money (a good thing, of course), but being able to predict revenue makes CFOs very very happy. According to Salesforce.com’s State of the Connected Customer (6th edition, 2024) , 68% of customers say advances in AI make it more important for companies to be trustworthy.

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Dreamforce 2014: Process Is More Important Than Analytics

Customer Experience Matrix

photo by Dion Hinchcliffe Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference this year was the usual mix of spectacle, congestion, and heart-felt philanthropy. Of course, it’s cloud-based but so are other, newer approaches that are ultimately more flexible and scalable. But nomenclature notwithstanding, the two systems do seem to work together.

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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

Customer Experience Matrix

By comparison, Eloqua lost just 7% of revenue in the year before its IPO, and even Salesforce.com, the benchmark for all Software as a Service (Saas) start-ups, lost just 20% of revenue in its final year as a private company. A loss that big is pretty scary. SaaS economics aren’t supposed to work that way.

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