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An old cliché in business technology says “nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM.” IBM was the original example, but in the years since people replaced IBM with Microsoft, Xerox and a number of other names.
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Is it beginner's luck or a sign of things to come?
A venture capital firm made one of its biggest initial investments today — and the reward goes to a Palo Alto mobile marketing automation provider.
Tenaya Capital of Woodside, Calif.
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The after-effects of the recent MarTech conference in San Francisco linger on. Between the strong speakers, fireside chats and diverse set of attendees, the event has already provided a point of departure for many a conversation on the state of marketing technology.
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Listen to your customers. Innovate without restriction. Embrace marketing technology to bridge the gap between marketing and IT. And then just throw up your hands and sigh. Or scream.
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Scott Brinker probably didn't shock any participants at the MarTech conference in San Francisco this week. In fact, it seemed, he reiterated a lot of what they already know. The marketing technology landscape is evolving rapidly.
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Foundation Capital General Partner Ashu Garg predicts that over the next 10 years, marketers will spend 10 times what they currently spend on marketing technology. Specifically, he wrote in “MarTech and the Decade of the CMO,” that the $12 billion that CMOs currently spend on martech will grow
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The best products or services are only as good as the tools you have to market them effectively. That's a simple business reality, and one MarTech — the marketing technology conference — seeks to address.
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John Somorjai was the corporate counsel at Oracle 18 years ago when an opening popped up in the corporate development group. He's never looked back. Starting as a manager, he found he had a knack for spotting good companies and cutting deals.
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Scott Brinker did the heavy lifting. The rest of us jumped on the bandwagon and began to weigh in. Brinker's yearly marketing technology supergraphic hit the streets in January. It featured 100 percent growth in the number of vendors in this space, climbing to 1,876. People are frightened.
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Two decades ago, a spunky little start-up called Netflix indirectly gave a big boost to marketing technology. "This tiny company was spending more than half of its engineering dollars building its own tools in-house for marketing automation," recalled Ashu Garg, general partner at San Francisco, Calif.
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My wife's shopping approach is pretty simple: she sees something she wants and buys it. And, if one of her friends has it, that's a no-brainer. She needs it, too. Marketers can't be like my wife when choosing technology. As they stare into the 1,876-vendor abyss, marketers need to do
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Don't be intimidated by Scott Brinker's latest marketing technology landscape. Many of the 1,876 vendors will fold, others will merge and be acquired and the landscape will shrink because of it, some industry players told CMSWire. "Many will fail," said Charles Nicholls, senior vice president of product strategy for
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"Please, make the bad chart go away," I've heard more than one marketer plead. I've been mapping the marketing technology landscape for the past five years. It's mostly a labor of love.
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More people are talking about digital marketing technology. And that means more numbers. We started the year with this "inspiring," "frightening" number -- 1,876, or the number of marketing tech vendors out there. Today, we continue to the conversation with another number: 50.
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