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Blog:Just Published: The Forrester Wave: Cross-Channel Campaign Management, Q1 2012

Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools face mounting pressure to evolve in the face of continuous, interactive, customer-led dialogue. CCCM capabilities have matured dramatically, but...

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Blog:On Marketing Technology, Castles, And Moats

Over the weekend, an experience with Apple prompted me to think about marketing technology’s role in creating economic moats. According to Warren Buffet: In days of old, a castle was protected...

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Blog:Oracle Acquires Eloqua: A Do-Over For The Era Of Digital Disruption

Today, Oracle announced that it will acquire Eloqua, a marketing automation firm. Oracle positions the deal as a comprehensive customer experience cloud that enables business to create an...

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Blog:What The Demise Of Flex Means For CI Pros

Earlier today, November 12, Deepa Subramaniam posted on the Flex Team Blog: Does Adobe recommend we use Flex or HTML5 for our enterprise application development? In the long-term, we believe HTML5...

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Report:Mastering New Marketing Automation Approaches

Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't keep up...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management, Q1 2012

How Eleven Vendors Tackle A Mature, Yet Rapidly Evolving, Category

In Forrester's 81-criteria evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) vendors, we identified, researched, and scored 12 products from 11 providers: Alterian, Aprimo, ExactTarget, IBM,...

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Blog:Amazon Silk Is Amazon's Secret CI Agent

The new Amazon Silk promises to speed tablet web browsing. It also provides Amazon's core business with a secret weapon against other retailers. Amazon Silk is essentially a browser that, by...

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Blog:Four Reasons Why ExactTarget's IPO Helps CI Pros

ExactTarget filed an S-1 last Wednesday, November 23, the first step towards an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of March, 2012.1 The company grew substantially over the past several years...

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Report:Plan Customer-Centric Campaign Management Requirements

Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...

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Blog:Take Forrester's Marketing Technology Survey

Using, investigating, or buying marketing technology? If so, we want to hear from you. Take the survey and receive a complimentary copy of the completed research. Take the marketing technology survey...

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Client Inquiry:Acquisitions: Another Disruptive Force For Marketing Technologists

What off-the-shelf tools provide life-cycle analysis? In a recent article of yours (Forrester's July 12, 2011, "Acquisitions: Another Disruptive Force For Marketing Technologists" report), you made...

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Report:Enable Customer Obsession With Cross-Channel Campaign Management

Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

Once relegated to the province of direct mail teams and analysts, customer data and marketing technology are now essential to every marketing function, from strategy to creative development to...

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Blog:ExactTarget Acquires iGoDigital And Pardot

ExactTarget today announced plans to acquire two companies: Pardot and iGoDigital. The acquisitions signal that ExactTarget, only recently public, intends to use its cash reserves to grow...

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Report:Measure The Strength Of The Marketing Technology Stack

Performance Management: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

The evolution from channel-specific to cross-channel campaigns affords firms the opportunity to improve relevance and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The processes of measuring and...

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Blog:Kick Out The Tills, CI Professionals

Mike Brown, CIO of Lowe’s, in an interview with Bloomberg on the purchase of 42,000 iPhones as point of sale (POS) devices: Forget about the competition, we are playing catch-up with the...

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Report:To Insource Or To Outsource: Understanding The Customer Intelligence Decision Process

As customer databases grow in functionality and organizational influence, Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals must choose between insourcing and outsourcing strategies to best facilitate their...

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Blog:MOVE BEYOND THE CAMPAIGN

Standing in an aisle of a big box retailer, I bought a new electric shaver from a competing retailer’s online store. The store’s shaving display reminded me that my razor was dying. Not...

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Blog:Siebel & Eloqua: Can You Outrun Your Future?

"Logan: That's the way things are. The way things have always been." In Redwood City this week, the answer I heard from Oracle was an emphatic yes. At Oracle's Industry Analyst World, the...

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Report:How Listening Informs Campaign Management

With customer communication channels growing at an exponential pace, brands must adapt their marketing campaigns to provide messages that are more customer-relevant and that differentiate their...

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Blog:Silk's Other CI Concern

David Streitfeld at The New York Times' Bits blog comments on Representative Edward Markey's (D-MA) letter to Amazon. Streitfeld says: But if you use the tablet to post reviews of Italian...

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Blog:Is It Time For Customer Decision Management?

The essential shape of the enterprise marketing landscape hasn’t changed much over the years. In last week’s Revisiting The Enterprise Marketing Software Landscape, I dissect...

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Blog:Carrier IQ: When CI Should Be Damned

Did you see the news about Carrier IQ covertly capturing Android users' activities for analysis by carriers? Trevor Eckhart, who analyzed the application, writes: Carrier IQ software, which...

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Report:The State Of MRM In 2011

Marketing Operations Technology Is Increasingly Contextual

Marketing resource management (MRM) systems promise to enhance marketers' ability to optimize planning, budgeting, collaboration, and asset creation. MRM received significant attention in the middle...

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Report:Move Beyond Campaigns To Tap Hidden Customer Potential

Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...

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Blog:The Surprising Challenge Of CI

Hello, everyone. As a new analyst on Forrester's Customer Intelligence team, I'm taking over coverage of enterprise marketing platforms. I'll range everywhere from cross-channel campaign...