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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend. The trick to winning these benefits is becoming a platform in the first place.

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Claritix Assembles Marketing Data for Analysis: Maybe That's Enough

Customer Experience Matrix

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. Here’s a deeper look. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Placing them all in the same product adds cost and complexity, which are not a software developer’s friends. Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it.

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s nearly two years since I introduced the concept of a Customer Data Platform , defined as a marketer-controlled system that builds a multi-source customer database and exposes it to external execution systems. Vendor Categories So far so good, but it’s really just theory. But things aren’t quite so simple.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Reverse IP look up appears to be the new thing here.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform. But does the B2B need the same platform components as B2C?)