The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t. HS: Thanks David!

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. Marketo has described itself as a platform for at least a year now (see this press release , for example) and I’ve been talking about marketing systems as platforms for even longer.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Conference Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

Analysis 120

Analysis Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Automation Services Salesforce.com 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system. The more interesting question is who will be the buyers. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. Working with the inside sales team, Spear used Marketo to build in a series of email alerts when leads reached a certain lead score threshold, for example, or filled out a high-value form.

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I would also put another group — one more focused on helping marketing align with, support, and enable sales: firms like BrightMarket, einsof, Longwood Software, and Salesforce.com with their Saleforce Content offering, to name a few. We generate, score and manage leads to sales completion and integration with Salesforce.com.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40