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Oracle Buys Market2Lead Intellectual Assets

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Oracle tersely announced today that it had purchased the intellectual assets of demand generation vendor Market2Lead. This is an excellent fit for Oracle in that Market2Lead is a sophisticated product that is best suited to large, demanding marketing operations.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

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As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The tentative list is Unica , Aprimo , Alterian , and Neolane. But I’ve also been approached by some of the other demand generation specialists.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

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When I was researching last week’s piece on Market2Lead , one of the points that vendor stressed was their ability to create a full-scale marketing database with information from external sources to analyze campaign results. They even cited one demand generation vendor that had turned to them for help. (In I’d guess the latter.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

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This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. per share, which comes to $871 million. The stock had been hovering around $17.50

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

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To make a free product viable, LoopFuse needed to engineer as much cost as possible out of the entire client life cycle. This means it had to be possible for clients to purchase and configure the system, learn how to use it and resolve support issues with next to no involvement by LoopFuse staff. rather than marketing automation.

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Do Small Businesses Need Marketing Automation?

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Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. This helps business owners who need to generate revenue as efficiently as possible. Vendors like NetSuite do offer such products, but they’re not targeted at very small businesses.