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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is significant on several levels.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Lytics Adds Marketing Recommendations to a Customer Data Platform

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s just over one year since I first spoke with Lytics *, which at that time was (accurately) calling itself a Customer Data Platform but had not yet released a beta version of its product. CEO James McDermot said the label was changed because big companies thought a CDP sounded like an IT project, not something run by marketers.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Fliptop: A Customer Data Platform for Predictive Lead Scoring, Pure and Simple

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s been a while since I wrote about Customer Data Platforms , but only because I’ve been distracted by other topics. The CDP industry has been moving along nicely without my attention: new CDPs keep emerging and the existing vendors are growing. b2b lead scoring customer data platform marketing automation predictive lead scoring'

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Can CRM Add-Ons Replace Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. But there are also a few vendors who have bet in favor of merged systems, so it wouldn’t be fair to ignore their view entirely.

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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. The company takes a conservative approach to marketing automation, stressing the importance of process over flashy software. Manticore Technology today released the latest version of its marketing automation system.

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