CDP for all
Here we go again right down the hypecycle and into new product land. Two major enterprise software companies, Oracle and Salesforce have announced CDP products. Oracle announced its product in Las Vegas at its Modern Customer Experience (MCX) event. Salesforce announced that it is building a Customer Data Platform. Given the company’s history of making […]
Cloud Software and Business Modernization Part Two: Customer Experience
Building and executing on a customer experience (CX) strategy is one of the most pressing areas of business modernization. The Internet has created new interaction models and channels, as well as created an expectation of immediacy. Companies are struggling to keep up with the expectations and new interaction models. The explosion of new and changing […]
Salesforce Acquiring Exact Target? Good Move (With A Question)
Ever since Salesforce launched a fully-working and functional version of Service Cloud (about three-four years ago) following the tiring attempts to build it itself for five or six years (which they later gave up to acquire Instranet – learning along the way that acquisitions work better than building-up) we have been waiting for something like […]
Advocacy: The New Currency of Marketing
Who do we ultimately turn to when we need to make important decisions in our lives? That’s the fundamental question at the heart of so much today when it comes to media, influence, and ultimately, marketing. What’s more, the reliable sources of trust today are currently on the move. We are in an era where […]
Predicting the Future Not for the Faint of Heart
I was doing some research in the Time Magazine archives (the best ones I have seen, by the way) the other day and came across this nugget from 1962: “Despite the discouraging results so far, many scientists argue that military-space research will ultimately produce an overflowing cornucopia of marketable consumer products, from supersonic planes to […]
Rolling Out An Idea
Has the emergence of social technology been faster than the roll out of other advanced technologies like CRM and ERP and why? I have recently been reading a dense technical book from 1990 with the improbable title (for CRM), The Rise and Fall of Infrastructures — Dynamics of Evolution and Technological Change in Transport, by […]
More on Election, Social and Marketing
I tried to wait a bit before commenting on the election and the Social CRM implications partly out of respect and in part to give everyone a chance to rev down. And these observations have much more to do with social media than with any political party or policy initiative, so please believe me when […]
Social Marketing — Right Idea for the Times
You might be tempted to consider social marketing just another idea in an endless stream of things dreamed up by the software industry (and pundits like me!) to generate more business. Well, you’d be right about some of that but I’d like to argue that the idea is more than hype and is, in fact, […]
Cloudforce New York
So, just about a month after Dreamforce, Salesforce.com is coming to New York for one of its regional Cloudforce conferences. The event will be at the Javitz Center in Manhattan on October 19. Salesforce is expecting six thousand attendees. The focus of the event is supposed to be on the newly re-announced Marketing Cloud — […]
Marketing May Not Be Dying, But It’s Certainly Changing – Right Flo?
Not surprisingly, many marketers were outraged, offended & upset by the recent Marketing Is Dead essay in the Harvard Business Review. Personally, I thought the piece was (intentionally) overstated – but directionally correct. Marketing isn’t ‘dead’ (as my fellow Enterprise Irregular and friend Maggie Fox asserts) but there’s no doubt things are changing – quickly. […]
