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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

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Teradata Plans to Sell Its $200 Million Marketing Application Business. Any Takers?

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Teradata today announced it plans to sell its Marketing Applications business. It’s only three weeks since Teradata expanded its marketing suite by buying a new Data Management Platform – a move I felt made great sense. Point of reference: Salesforce.com reported $505 million revenue for its B2C marketing cloud in 2015.)

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

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Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com.

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Pega Customer Decision Hub Offers High-End Customer Journey Orchestration

Customer Experience Matrix

The Customer Decision Hub from Pega (formerly PegaSystems) is certainly mature: the product can trace its roots back well over a decade, to a pioneering company called KiQ Limited, which was purchased in 2004 by Chordiant, which Pega purchased in 2010. Decision Strategy Manager is where the serious decision management takes place.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

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Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. Oracle does have an existing B2B marketing automation product, based on the technology it acquired from Market2Lead in 2010.

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QlikView's New Release Focuses on Enterprise Deployment

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The company released QlikView 10 in October and Senior Director of Product Marketing Erica Driver briefed me on it in a couple of weeks ago. Total revenues will easily exceed $200 million for 2010. But more big enterprises are signing on as well. Development is focused on integration and enterprise support.

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Highlights from the 2010 Dreamforce Keynote: The Cloud Computing Event of the Year

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Marc Benioff, in all his grandeur, hit the stage loud and proud sharing the success over the past year ranging from improvements to the service cloud to the mass adoption of Chatter to the acquisition of Jigsaw. Salesforce.com consumes 90% less energy than traditional software. Service Cloud. Dell’s new Boomi acquision.