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Intuit / Salesforce.com Alliance Is No April Fool's Joke

Customer Experience Matrix

Am I the only one who missed the April 1 announcement of a strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Intuit ? Given our industry's endless nattering about whether Salesforce.com will move into marketing automation, this should have attracted more attention (or, at least, enough attention that I would hear about it sooner than I did).

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

ViewPoint

Asked about whether Salesforce.com may make an acquisition, he notes they do play nicely with several marketing automation providers, and an argument could be made that they are purposely staying out. Widespread Use of Outbound Marketing Among Software Providers.

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Salesforce Reports Strong Growth in Commerce Cloud Sales

Valasys

On the 25th of August 2020, the leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce, CRM, and other popular business software solutions, Salesforce revealed that their revenue from Marketing and Commerce Cloud software increased by 21% for the second quarter of the fiscal that ended on July 31. billion in the first half of the fiscal.

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Reborn AutoPilot Aims to Simplify Multi-Channel Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps. These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting.

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My Take: Salesforce Acquires ExactTarget, Continues Marketing Automation Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. Frankly, of the two, entry into B2C marketing seems more important because it''s such a large business and Salesforce.com needs to know where its next several billion dollars in revenue will come from. -

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NurtureHQ Offers "Dead Easy Marketing Automation". Is That Enough?

Customer Experience Matrix

NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is. What they found “too hard” wasn’t the software, but the planning and content creation needed for serious marketing automation. That’s not a software problem. What does this mean for the software vendors themselves?

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze. But there are still significant differentiators.