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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 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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7 Reasons Why Oracle's Market2Lead Acquisition Makes a Lot of Sense

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Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. Everybody expected Salesforce.com to make a first move, but Oracle surprised us here :- ). Market2Lead Probably Got A Good Deal. Market2Lead was one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. People asked my opinion on this acquisition.

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

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Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. It will also be competing with Eloqua, Silverpop and, perhaps most dangerously, the Market2Lead technology recently purchased by Oracle. LoopFuse’s price-driven approach is one such strategy.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

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I’m pleased to report that the 2010 edition of the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems is officially available today, with updated entries on all vendors (alphabetically: Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silverpop Engage B2B ). Here’s a quick look at what I found. Social media.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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In other words, Marketing Studio competes with high-end demand generation systems like Eloqua , Market2Lead and Neolane. 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.

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

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Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. Is Salesforce.com a threat to vendors of marketing automation solutions? by Market2Lead CMO Kevin Joyce for a good statement of the separatist position.)

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

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But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. The leaders among demand generation systems are still Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo. Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration. David) There are no huge surprises.