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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

“We just signed up for this Eloqua thing. We were one of Eloqua’s first customers and that’s where my adventure with marketing automation began. New sub-niches cropped up in the marketing discipline, around the ecosystems of marketing automation tools like Eloqua, Marketo and eventually HubSpot. Hey kid,” they said.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. per share, which comes to $871 million.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. More specifically, it’s a major acquisition by a CRM vendor, helping to fulfill everyone's favorite prophecy that marketing automation and CRM will eventually merge.

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Marketing Automation for the Inbound Challenged-Part 3: Vendors I

MLT Creative

Once you've grasped the whole marketing automation concept, you're going to need a vendor to help you follow through. Over my next two blogs, I'll highlight different marketing automation vendors, and what they do that sets them apart. Stay tuned next week for information on more marketing automation vendors.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

Customer Experience Matrix

Although Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff clearly has a more messianic vision than that, fulfilling the grander vision isn’t really necessary from a business standpoint. I discussed RPM with both Eloqua and Marketo during Dreamforce. “Social enterprise” offers a nice theme to make this possible by attracting application developers.

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How You Can Use Intent Data to Overcome These 4 Common ABM Challenges

Engagio

Vendors typically use one of three methods to collecting this behavioral data to determine intent: analyzing activity on social networks such as scanning posts; analyzing content consumption across a publishing network and analyzing engagement with display advertising across the public Internet.

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The Impact of Customer Success Before The Sale

Varicent

A quick look at your career path shows an impressive list of companies including Eloqua (Oracle), Intelex, and Day Software (Adobe). When I joined Eloqua, it was to innovate the customer experience because churn had become a significant threat to the business. We had to figure out how we were going to address it.