While fans of Game of Thrones were preparing for the finale of the series, Salesforce was fighting a different dragon over the weekend with Pardot. (The Benioffs are related and share a common great grandfather). Well, it was a very busy weekend for Salesforce as it was forced to temporarily shut down access to its Marketing Cloud services. It took a full working day for the company to confirm that normalcy was restored. https://twitter.com/isitdownforme/status/1129380308426645504 The Salesforce outage comes barely…

Today at Sirius Decisions Summit, Salesforce announced Pardot Business Units to segment audiences at a finer level and boost B2B marketing operations Automation has open new avenues for marketers to explore Personalization. According to leading CMOs, persoanlization is defined as creatively tailoring website pages and mobile applications to user's preferences and behaviors. Today at Sirius Decisions Summit, Salesforce announced Pardot Business Units. This is furthering their solution for enterprise B2B marketing teams.…

Customers Now Have Full Visibility into the Buyer's Journey and Can Trigger the Right Campaign at the Right Time 6sense, a leading Account Based Orchestration Platform, powered by AI, extends its relationship with Salesforce to include an all-new integration with Pardot, Salesforce’s marketing automation solution. This integration combines marketing execution from Salesforce Pardot with the time-based predictions on prospect engagement from 6sense. Shared users can easily use 6sense to uncover demand and prioritize…

Tell us about your vision in ABM and the role it plays in current Marketing-Sales alignment. Sales and marketing is undergoing a dramatic change today, which is truly shaping the role that Account-Based Marketing (ABM) plays for both teams. Customers are more empowered than ever, and they expect the companies they engage with to be connected and transparent across every part of their business. In fact, 74% of business buyers say it’s very important for salespeople to be aware of marketing campaigns and offers in order…

Pardot’s Popularity Has Been Soaring After Salesforce’s Acquisition in 2013. Salesforce Is Further Strengthening Their Go-To Marketing Automation Tool by Adding New Features to It. The New and Upgraded Pardot Will See the Light of the Day Sometime During Winter ’19 Pardot — originally a part of ExactTarget — was acquired when Salesforce purchased ExactTarget for $2.5 billion back in 2013. Back then, Pardot was in the nascent stages, but it was growing very quickly. Today, Pardot is one of the best Marketing Automation…

New Comprehensive Training Initiative Provides Bespoke Marketing Automation Training to Guarantee Platform Certification CleverTouch, a leading Marketing Automation consultancy and service provider, has announced its ‘Level Up’ Marketo and Pardot certification program. The program provides expert Marketo and Pardot training for marketers looking to become the internal experts and to further progress their careers. Recommended Read: Salesforce Einstein Analytics Unveils Conversational Queries to Simplify Data With…

Integration Combines Contacts in Pardot with Artificial Intelligence-Powered Insights from Demandbase’s Conversion Solution Demandbase, the leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), announced, at the 5th Annual ABM Innovation Summit, an expanded collaboration with Salesforce to provide marketing and sales teams with more comprehensive account and contact level insight. The integration will automatically combine real-time intent data and account insights from Demandbase's artificial intelligence (AI) powered Conversion…

We recently covered the Salesforce ABM Launch Einstein Account-Based Marketing (ABM), a complete, end-to-end B2B marketing solution powered by artificial intelligence. The hype and buzz around ABM has never been hotter, we caught up with Mike Kostow, SVP Salesforce Pardot to get Salesforce's perspective on the platform. MTS: What does Salesforce ABM bring to the table that the mix of Salesforce Engage, Advertising Studio, and Lead Scoring have not already? Earlier this month, Salesforce announced the availability…

The year 2019 has been a year full of surprises that saw path-breaking mergers and acquisitions, unique product innovations, mega-funding rounds, and start-up growth. As we approach the end of a phenomenal year for martech companies, the stage is already set for the New Year 2020. We have picked 75 leaders from the ever-growing martech community who we think are a step ahead in envisioning the future and preparing themselves and others with their knowledge, skills, and team collaborations. You can subscribe to our resources…

World Cup and Olympic Champion Megan Rapinoe would Address Over 1,000 B2B Marketing Leaders at Demandbase’s 7th Annual ABM Innovation Summit Demandbase, the leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), today announced the lineup of inspiring speakers for the 7th annual ABM Innovation Summit. Taking the mainstage on March 17 is World Cup and Olympic Champion, Megan Rapinoe. Keynote speakers, Andrew Davis, marketing expert, and best-selling author; Shannon Duffy, executive vice president of product marketing, Salesforce Marketing…

Leadspace, already recognized as B2B CDP and marketing data leader by Forrester, is included in Gartner’s Market Guide for Account-Based Marketing Platforms. 2019 saw record growth for Leadspace, doubling its customer base and adding fast growing, innovative enterprise customers like American Express, Monster, Freshworks, Gojo and Booking.com Leadspace, the leading B2B customer data platform (CDP) provider, has been recognized in Gartner’s 2019 Market Guide for Account-Based Marketing Platforms (Gartner subscription…

Marvel Marketers, an award-winning marketing agency with offices in San Mateo, CA, Austin, TX, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, is continuing to expand its footprint in EMEA with a new strategic partnership with Ulster University. The agency will use the framework from its training arm, Professor M’s Academy, to bring hands-on marketing automation training to Ulster’s undergraduate and graduate marketing students and staff. With coursework in Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua, and HubSpot, along with the digital marketing best…

"As Machine Learning and AI continue to rapidly improve and evolve, we are looking to refine and implement these technologies across our products." Hi Marcin, Tell us about your role and journey into Technology. What inspired the idea of Pricefx? I am the CEO and Co-founder of Pricefx and I started the company because I saw a huge opportunity in the Pricing software industry. I had been in the software business for over 20 years already with 5 years in Pricing software. I knew that the industry had to change to meet the…

"When a user visits a publisher, they’re expressing a level of trust in the publisher, and each publisher must repay that trust by providing a safe and clean user experience." Tell us about your role and journey into technology. What galvanized you to join GeoEdge? I always found the tech industry very interesting. Growing up in Israel, I watched the Israeli tech companies as they made a huge impact on the Israeli economy and built the start-up nation ecosystem. I knew this is the place I want to be. After completing my…

Elo will feature the latest Retail Technology, along with its wide selection of interactive solutions for creating experiential shopper journeys in-store, at NRF 2020. Elo, a leading global provider of interactive retail solutions, announced exciting additions to its lineup of point-of-sale, self-service, BOPIS and in-store fulfillment solutions, including the new Windows-based EloPOS™ Pack compute platform and two additional display options for EloPOS systems. These additions provide Windows/Intel customers the same…

"SaaS is the future of data analytics.SaaS architecture enables data to become real-time and to become useful, and immediately applicable to real business conditions – our software is intentionally designed to do just that." How exciting is the current SaaS ecosystem today? SaaS is literally on fire – its a very exciting time, particularly in the pricing space. Pricefx was truly the first cloud native solution to enter the B2B pricing space, and at the time most in the industry were sceptical, saying there was no way…

“Study the past if you would define the future.” ― Confucius The first decade for Martech-as-a-service is coming to its end. What was the year 2019 like for the industry? As part of our Predictions Series 2020, we bring you this unique Infographic Rewinding 2019 as a recap of top Martech news and announcements of 2019. Enjoy reading this list of most-subscribed martech news of 2019 that have already set the bar higher for New Year 2020. You can subscribe to our resources and insights through newsletters, social media…

Terminus, the #1 customer rated account-based marketing platform, announced today it has named SaaS veteran Tim Kopp as its chief executive officer and chairman. Kopp is a recognized marketing and technology leader with more than 20 years of experience at global B2B and B2C brands such as ExactTarget and Coca Cola, and as an active early-stage investor at Hyde Park Venture Partners. During his time as chief marketing officer at ExactTarget, Kopp led a team of more than 300 marketing leaders to scale revenue from $50M to…

"I think that the misperception of AI is that it’s general and not understood that it’s specific." Could you tell us about your role and journey into technology? My role as CEO is self-explanatory. My journey into technology started at a very young age and that was the start of a lifelong love affair with technology. I had a genuine curiosity on how everything worked and started programming at a very early age.  As I got older, I was fortunate enough to study Computer Science during the dot-com era. From there, I started…

"As organizations use AI and Data to stay relevant to their buyers in real-time, they need Automation to ensure they are being fully adaptive to meet those needs. " Could you tell us about your role and journey into B2B Marketing Technology? It’d be my pleasure. I've been in B2B Marketing for 21 years now. The last 15 of which have been in and around primarily SaaS companies. My journey into the miasma of Marketing Technology solutions started about 15 or 16 years ago with a company called Nuance Communications and in a…