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Interpublic Group is Buying Acxiom Marketing Services for $2.3 Billion. Here's Why.

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Yesterday brought news that Acxiom had agreed to sell its marketing services business to Interpublic Group , a major ad holding company, for $2.3 Acxiom had restructured itself in March into the Market Services and LiveRamp groups and announced it was looking at strategic options, so the deal wasn’t especially surprising.

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Matching Marketing Technology to Business Strategy: A Starting Framework

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As you may know, I’m working with Scott Brinker of Chief Martech blog fame and Third Door Media on the MarTech marketing technology conference set for August 19-20 in Boston.* Every consulting engagement I do starts with the relationship between business strategy and marketing technology.** Bluff called. So, where to begin?

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Provenir Adds Social Listening to Customer Decisions: Another Customer Data Platform

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Over the past year, the company has added “social listening” capabilities and begun offering itself to marketing agencies as a customer interaction manager. The latest is Provenir , a company founded in 1992 that has long sold a system to make credit risk and fraud decisions in real time.

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Reading the Hype Meter for Customer Experience Management

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Salesforce.com) as well as generic topics like Branding for Dummies , Customer Service for Dummies and Marketing for Dummies. Wikipedia was interesting: it has brief article on “customer experience management” based mostly Bernd Schmitt’s work. Of course, there are several titles related to CRM software (Microsoft CRM, Goldmine, ACT!,

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. Others are sure to follow. microblogs (Twitter, Friendfeed , etc.),

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QlikView Scripts Are Powerful, Not Sexy

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I was going to label QlikView scripting as a “procedural” language and contrast it with VBScript as an “object-oriented” language, but a quick bit of Wikipedia research suggests those may not be quite the right labels.

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What Makes QlikTech So Good?

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To carry on a bit with yesterday’s topic— QlikTech fascinates me on two levels: first, because it is such a powerful technology, and second because it’s a real-time case study in how a superior technology penetrates an established market. in a future post. Patent [number 6,236,986 B1, issued in 2001] would help but I haven’t looked.