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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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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

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SAP Buys hybris e-commerce Software to Build Its Version of Real Time Customer Management

Customer Experience Matrix

Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. Since Salesforce said yesterday that other companies also wanted to buy ExactTarget, it seemed possible that SAP had lost the deal and purchased hybris as a second choice.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. It's also one foundation of the MadTech vision I offered last year.

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Martech At The Crossroads: Agility or Simplicity?

Customer Experience Matrix

I can’t prove this, but I think what triggered martech hypergrowth was Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). This made it easy for marketers to purchase systems without involving the corporate IT department, allowing users to buy tools that solved specific problems whether or not the tools fit into the corporate grand scheme of things.

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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: Sales Intelligence

Heinz Marketing

Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Depending on the software/platform there are additional features and functionality you should look out for depending on the objectives of your business. Features/functionality: Unearth ideal prospects.