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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors.

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B2B prospecting data just keeps getting better

Biznology

To get an understanding of the depth of data available to B2B marketers for prospecting, we invited a set of reputable vendors to open their vaults and share details about the nature and quantity of the fields they offer. Out-of-business indicator, plus credit rating and parent/subsidiary linkages (Salesforce.com).

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo has described itself as a platform for at least a year now (see this press release , for example) and I’ve been talking about marketing systems as platforms for even longer. Every major marketing automation vendor has tried to do the same. the brain”), database (“marketing system of record”) and analytics.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. The imported data is loaded into MongoDB, a NoSQL database that offers great flexibility and ease of deployment. Here’s a deeper look.

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Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

Biznology

Real-time marketing gets real. We are fast approaching the holy grail of proactive database marketing, built on always-on, in-the-moment customer interactions. Real-time marketing will be real for business marketers, says Russell Kern of the Kern Agency. In short, consumer marketers are also learning from B2B.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

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. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

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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. You don’t dig through your junk email folder to find that email some vendor sent you weeks ago. In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy.