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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers.

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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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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

Customer Experience Matrix

By comparison, Eloqua lost just 7% of revenue in the year before its IPO, and even Salesforce.com, the benchmark for all Software as a Service (Saas) start-ups, lost just 20% of revenue in its final year as a private company. A loss that big is pretty scary. SaaS economics aren’t supposed to work that way.

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

Christopher mentions Twitter’s recent launch of its self-serve ad platform similar to Google AdWords: marketers can go in with their credit cards and place ads. He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

Chris mentions Twitter’s recent launch of its self-serve ad platform similar to Google AdWords: marketers can go in with their credit cards and place ads. He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing.

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Pega Customer Decision Hub Offers High-End Customer Journey Orchestration

Customer Experience Matrix

Pega positions Customer Decision Hub as part of its core platform, which supports applications for marketing, sales automation, customer service, and operations. It competes with the usual enterprise suspects: Adobe , Oracle , Salesforce.com , IBM , and SAS. But it does set a benchmark for other options.

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3 Things to Learn From Microsoft’s MarTech Stack

Allocadia

Needless to say, every marketer should be interested to see what a forward-thinking organization like Microsoft is doing with marketing technology. Companies like Microsoft, that have a well thought out approach to Marketing technology get better business results. Build Multiple Layers of Technologies to Create Clarity.