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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. A marketing automation platform can't do this because it bumps up against the competing platform of CRM.

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

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Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. People still don’t understand the difference between marketing automation vs. CRM. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate? Vendors take note.

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

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I’m pleased to report that the 2010 edition of the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems is officially available today, with updated entries on all vendors (alphabetically: Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silverpop Engage B2B ). Social media. Upgraded reporting. New user interfaces.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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For evidence that a free entry-level product does not automatically drive out higher priced systems, consider the hosted CRM market. Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics. who are entering this market from a different direction.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 1

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In both cases, I see the basic flow as an outbound email, landing page, multi-step nurturing campaign, lead scoring, and transfer to a CRM system for sales followup. Select marketing assets from shared libraries Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Text search for assets.

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How Demand Generation Systems Handle Company Data: Diving into the Details

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Here are the questions I asked, with summaries of answers from the five vendors in the current Raab Guide ( Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketo , Vtrenz ) plus two I’ll be adding shortly ( Marketbright and Neolane.) Market2Lead and Marketbright also use the company data and links imported from Salesforce.com.

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LucidEra Takes a Shot at On-Demand Analytics

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The question here is whether most demand generation systems ( Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Market2Lead , Manticore , etc.) import sales results from CRM systems to measure campaign effectiveness. My impression was they did, but Rudin said that LucidEra created its lead analysis system precisely because they did not.