LeadSloth

MAY 25, 2010

Oracle has just acquired Market2Lead , one of the early Marketing Automation vendors. There has been a lot of talk in the industry about possible consolidation, such as vendors going out of business, becoming irrelevant or being acquired. Everybody expected Salesforce.com to make a first move, but Oracle surprised us here :- ).

Market2Lead 100

Market2Lead Enterprise Management Acquisitions Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010. Market2Lead was very good system, but it lacked the huge market presence that Oracle gains from Eloqua. So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react.

Eloqua 120

Eloqua Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

In practice, this means that only very small companies will actually be able to use the free system as their primary long-term marketing system. Other vendors have similar price points for the small business market (see my list of demand generation vendors ) although I suspect their internal costs are higher.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

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.)

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. Like Aprimo itself, Marketing Studio is a bit of an oddity because it serves both business and consumer marketers. Other business marketing systems generally cannot.) You know who you are.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Will they specialize in particular industries to establish a small but profitable niche? Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Of course, Oracle has already made its move by purchasing Market2Lead's intellectual assets.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com. In Marketo, each campaign is a relatively small, self-contained sequence of steps that is triggered by a particular prospect need. The changes that Fernandez described seemed good but subtle.

Marketo 120

Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vtrenz 120