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Nonsensical: the latest Digital Experience Platform Wave from Forrester

When the large technology research firms produce foolhardy reports, our response is typically an eye-roll – Ho hum, there they go again. But, while mostly futile, those vendor plot graphs generate a lot of revenue, so we understand that they have to churn them out regularly to keep the business afloat, and thus, the resulting reports can’t all be… read more >

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DCG Webinar Recording: Marketo Goes Private With $1.8 B Acquisition By Vista, What Does It All Mean?

On May 31, 2016 Marketo Inc. agreed to be acquired for $1.79 billion by Vista Equity Partners, a move that will take the marketing software and solutions company private. This all cash $1.79B deal for the category leader and sole hold out in a rapidly consolidating marketing automation space will impact its business, customers, and competitors. In this webinar recording, Digital… read more >

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Marketo goes private with puzzling acquisition by Vista Equity Partnership

Update:  Listen to analysts from Digital Clarity Group and Constellation Research in a recorded live webcast about the Marketo deal. Well, they say timing is everything, and so it seems I was just a day off in my Marketing Automation Round-up post, in which I speculated on  Marketo‘s impending acquisition. The cloud-based marketing automation platform (MAP) company was acquired today (May… read more >

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Marketing Automation Round-up, May 2016

Digital Clarity Group’s MAP round-up condenses and consolidates some of the marketing automation industry’s most topical news and happenings from the past couple of months.  This edition’s round-up catches up with why IBM is so interested in the weather and Marketo – the acquisition buzz, as well as its new partner and IoT offering. IBM, the… read more >

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Suite trend continues with Salesforce $2.5B acquisition of ExactTarget

Got it. Got it. Need it. Got it. The sounds of hockey card collections and Salesforce.com’s (SFDC) approach to business growth as reinforced with today’s announcement of its acquisition of cloud marketing automation platform ExactTarget. This is the biggest price tag paid in SFDC’s long list of acquisitions made in its 14-year history. At $2.5… read more >

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