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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

The rest of the competitors, including the original market leaders, were nearly all purchased as line extensions by much larger firms. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system. Email marketing is another obvious adjacent space.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Or disagree with the list…) On the other side, I see solutions more oriented toward marketing and enabling a “pull” model, one focused on letting prospects engage at their own pace. I would put the lead management automation crop here: Eloqua, Loopfuse, Manticore Technologies, Market2Lead, Marketo, and Vtrenz.