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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

These were campaign management systems including Exchange Applications, Recognition Systems/Protagona, Prime Response, Intrinsic, Unica, Aprimo, Decision Software TopDog/MarketWide, Alterian and SmartFocus. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors. Again, there was already one transaction: Silverpop/Vtrenz in 2007.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Many of the marketing automation companies have added some fairly sophisticated analytics to monitor prospect’s online behavior and help marketers qualify and score them based on Web site visits, registrations, and downloads. That I’m sure to hear about them since I know I’ve missed adding many to this list.) Here’s the problem.