Bizo and DemandBase Lead B2B Marketing Automation to Web Advertising and Beyond Wildan 12:51 PM Add Comment ad agencies, b2b marketing automation, bizo, cross-channel marketing, demandbase, retargeting, web advertising, web analytics Edit I had a fascinating chat earlier this week with a client who described his vision for using DemandBase to tailor messages to Web site visit... Read More
Woopra Grows from Web Analytics to Multi-Source Customer Data, Insights and Actions Wildan 8:19 AM Add Comment customer data integration, customer data platform, customer management systems, web analytics, woopra Edit I stumbled over Woopra in their tiny booth during last month’s Dreamforce conference, where I was intrigued enough to let them scan my badge... Read More
Demand Generation Systems Shift Focus to Tracking Behavior Wildan 12:26 PM Add Comment behavior detection, behavioral targeting, demand generation, marketing automation, web analytics Edit Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and be... Read More
Online Marketing Systems Are Still Very Fragmented Wildan 8:54 AM Add Comment marketing software, web analytics Edit What with all the recent acquisitions in the digital marketing industry, I thought I’d draw a little diagram of all the components needed fo... Read More
Are Visual Sciences and WebSideStory Really the Same Company? (As a matter of fact, yes.) Wildan 12:00 PM Add Comment analytics tools, marketing software, web analytics Edit Last week, WebSideStory announced it was going to become part of the Visual Sciences brand. (The two companies merged in February 2006 bu... Read More
Beware Distributed Analytics (You Read It Here First) Wildan 9:45 AM Add Comment analysis systems, business intelligence, customer experience management, data integration, web analytics Edit What might be called the “standard model” of business intelligence systems boils down to this: many operational sources feed data into a cen... Read More
Operational Systems Should Be Designed with Testing in Mind Wildan 8:30 AM Add Comment analytics tools, customer experience management, multivariate testing, web analytics Edit A direct marketing client pointed out to me recently that it can be very difficult to set up tests in operational systems. There is no smal... Read More
Channel-Specific Analytics Are Doomed: Doomed, I Tell You Wildan 9:14 AM Add Comment data integration, marketing software, mobile marketing, web analytics Edit Did you ever have one of those crazy dreams, not quite a nightmare, where unrelated things get mixed up together? I felt that way this morn... Read More