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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

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.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

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. This reduces the amount of user training.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

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Most offer a CRM option (typically priced at $10 to $20 per seat per month) for companies who don't want to pay for Salesforce.com. Considerations extend beyond feature checklists to include sales and support models, pricing structures, training requirements, consulting partners, and usability.

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Low Cost Systems for Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

This is a bit perplexing, since those products are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: Marketo being relatively low cost / limited functionality / easier to learn, and Eloqua being higher cost / richer functionality / takes more training. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better. I reviewed it here in March.

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Market2Lead Offers Enterprise-Strength Demand Generation System

Customer Experience Matrix

Market2Lead offers the usual list of demand generation functions: outbound email, Web forms and landing pages, automated lead nurturing, integration with sales, and campaign return on investment analysis. This is not to say that Market2Lead is especially hard to use. But Market2Lead does not provide its own email services.