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 >
Web content management (WCM), where a marketer’s content lives and breathe, is king of the martech stack. Content, while it has always a key component of a marketer’s court, its prominence and power notched up in rank when it became the central component of delivering upon the promise of a great customer experience. The new drive… read more >
Digital Clarity Group’s DAM round-up condenses and consolidates some of the most topical news and happenings from the digital asset management industry from the past month or so. This month’s round-up covers , The Guardian’s home grown DAM, ADAM’s Microsoft Azure certification, and Canto updates to its enterprise suite. The Guardian Releases Open Source ‘Grid’… read more >
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal prior to their mid-January 2015 IPO, Box’s CEO Aaron Levie was asked, “Is online file sharing a commodity?” Levie hedged the answer, offering only that “the storage component of what we do is a commodity product.” But, in truth, storage alone has long been undifferentiated. (Thumb drives, anyone?)… read more >
April 2015 – The empowered consumer of today wants more than offers; they want a satisfying experience. Because of this shift in buyer behavior and many other disruptive changes, most organizations are or should be embarking on projects to transform the marketing organization and/or transform the customer’s digital experiences. But in some industries undergoing massive change,… read more >
So you have confirmed that indeed, your organization is in need of a new technology solution. Perhaps it’s a content management system (CMS), a marketing automation platform (MAP), a digital asset management (DAM) tool, or perhaps a combination of solutions. Whatever the technology, the prudent next step is to start talking to others in your… read more >
In today’s content-driven online environment, the ability to effectively deliver engaging, accurate, relevant information in the right format at the right time via the right channel is imperative for any successful content strategy. Finding the ‘best-fit’ Web Content Management System (WCMS) to facilitate managing the content on your public, intranet and/or extranet websites is one… read more >
Whether the end game is a new web content management system for the entire enterprise, or a marketing automation platform for your sales and marketing team, or a collaboration tool for the PMO, identifying who the project’s stakeholders are, and how they fit into the effort is an important task to complete early on in… read more >
For decades “It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it” or some variation of that sentence was heard over and over on American Bandstand’s Rate-a-Record segment – often in complete disregard as to whether you actually could dance to the tune in question, good beat, or not. Arbitrary and subjective, these ratings… read more >
So you need a new … WCMS? Marketing automation platform? Ecommerce solution? Where not to start. Many companies will start their technology or service provider selection process by sending out a blind RFI (request for information) or RFP (request for proposal) without so much as picking up the phone to introduce themselves and the opportunity,… read more >
