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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. The pattern will likely repeat itself.

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On Second Thought, Maybe Web Advertisers Will Dominate Web Marketing Systems

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Wednesday’s post about online marketing systems generated some interesting discussion. I speculated that the most likely candidates for combining all these systems were either the Web platform vendors or enterprise marketing systems. This bodes ill for the many stand-alone online marketing firms.

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Advertisers Must Help Marketers To Build Relationships

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The article also mentions efforts by Google and DoubleClick to create online exchanges for advertising purchases, and suggests these may also face resistance from media companies. After all, integrated, multi-touch point marketing is a Good Thing in my personal universe, and I think in the customer experience management world in general.

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Aprimo 8.0 Puts a New Face on Campaign Management

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Loyal readers will recall a series of posts before New Years providing updates on the major marketing automation vendors: SAS , Teradata , and Unica. Over the past few years the company acquired additional technology from Doubleclick, picking up the SmartPath workflow system and Protagona Ensemble consumer-oriented campaign manager.

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Online Marketing Systems Are Still Very Fragmented

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What with all the recent acquisitions in the digital marketing industry, I thought I’d draw a little diagram of all the components needed for a complete solution. I’ve written about pretty much every variety of online marketing software here or elsewhere and have reviewed dozens of products in depth. The results were a surprise.