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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. What if you're an enterprise marketer?

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Yesterday's News: Marketo Plans IPO, Eloqua Eyes B2C

Customer Experience Matrix

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. B2B and B2C marketers have different requirements.

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The Evolution of Marketing Automation: Are Traditional Platforms on Their Way Out?

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing What platforms come to mind when you think of marketing automation? In the past, I’d assume the answer to that would always be limited to Marketo, Pardot, Hubspot or Eloqua. Maybe not so much anymore.

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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Does it offer a solid integration with Salesforce (or other, leading CRM), including a view into the lead, contact, account and opportunity objects? They have built personas and conducted market research.

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ExactTarget and Eloqua Stake Their Claim To Centralized Customer Management

Customer Experience Matrix

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. Both announcements shared a theme of integration between core marketing platforms and other marketing systems.

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Raab Report: Neolane, Aprimo, and Eloqua Rate Highest for Large Company B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. The chart shows Neolane and Aprimo (owned by Teradata) as the clear leaders, with Eloqua also very strong. This doesn’t mean that every client actually connects them to CRM system.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.