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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. This is a trend that’s been clear for some time; it’s a big part of the intent data and predictive data excitement of the past year or two.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

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It integrates with Jigsaw to show company details like revenue, and available contacts for a specific company: contacts can be bought for $1 each directly at Jigsaw. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

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But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. Certainly those features will continue to grow. me-too products.

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Eloqua Experience 2010

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One of the time-saving features that is the type-ahead search: see the video tour of Eloqua 10 for details. Eloqua is also taking a lesson from Salesforce.com’s playbook by making it easier to extend Eloqua with 3rd party applications. Another new product is Eloqua Discover for Salesforce.com. That was very intuitive.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software. But it only recently added even simple landing pages and Web forms, and still has limited lead scoring, email and nurturing features.

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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

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This leaves unique features as the only viable strategy for a new firm.* Alsa has some other unusual features. These include support for multivariate tests on landing pages (but not emails); automated posting of Jigsaw and social media data into lead profiles; fractional revenue attribution; and SugarCRM synchronization.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

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Treehouse Interactive just introduced a “talk it up” feature that embeds “share this” buttons in Treehouse-generated Web pages and emails. Many other vendors let a user automatically jump to the LinkedIn or Jigsaw profiles of the prospect they are reviewing. Here’s a quick and surely incomplete run-down of those I’ve seen recently.