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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company. billion acquisition of LinkedIn.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed.

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Is the CDP category being shrunk by acquisitions?: Monday’s Daily Brief

Martech

Since CDPs emerged as a category (around 2016, according to the CDP Institute) we became accustomed to looking across a landscape of independent vendors, most with slightly different offerings under the CDP umbrella. Brearton shared that CabinetM did replace their CRM during this time period. It’s a scaling issue.” Why we care.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. The vendors also charged additional per-user fees for these modules. Social media.

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Most Exciting Marketing Technologies to Adopt in 2017

Leadspace

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. It’s beautiful when it’s that simple, and this one is.

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Marketo Sales Insight Expands Salesforce Access to Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. This can be integrated with Demandbase and Jigsaw to download the names of contacts at those firms. Marketo is a Force.com application that works only with Salesforce.com, while Eloqua works with several CRM products.

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