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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. Marketing & Sales Belong Together.

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

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Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Sales access. But in contrast to social media applications, the sales access modules were remarkably similar. Market2Lead, Manticore Technology and Silverpop all introduced major interface upgrades.

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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. I still suspect they will, driven by the need for ever-closer cooperation between marketing and sales teams in managing prospect relationships. See Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics. who are entering this market from a different direction.

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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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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. Products including Silverpop Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz), Market2Lead and Marketbright also let marketers set up small, sequential campaigns and embed them in selection framework.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

Customer Experience Matrix

Judging from the press releases on their Web site, this may be due to a new release last October that added Salesforce.com integration. Major advances are still needed in usability, particularly for complex marketing programs, and in coordination with sales systems. Their ranking is still very low, but has increased substantially.