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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”. Here’s a piece from 2009.)

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

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Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

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I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. They plan to do this by becoming the platform for the “social enterprise”, which they see as the next major generation of computing. Their equivalent is Salesforce Chatter, the social network for company workers they see as connecting all company systems.

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Vocus Marketing Suite: Still Mostly Social But Marketing Automation is On the Way

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Its core offerings include a huge database of media contacts; media monitoring and social listening; and press release distribution. It lacks the Salesforce.com integration of B2B systems (due early next year), the lightweight CRM of micro-business systems, and the lead scoring and distribution of both.

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Mintigo InterestBase Harvests Web and Social Data for Marketing and Sales

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Every marketer recognizes that the Web and social media could be rich sources of information about customers and prospects. Semantic engines can extract information such as executive changes and product announcements from press releases and social media profiles. But harvesting that data has been frustratingly difficult.

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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

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x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.