BrightTalk Insights Tool

BrightTalk offers machine learning to help B2B marketers pick the most relevant topics to present

BrightTalk on Monday said it would help B2B marketers develop more relevant webinars to host on its platform by opening up a tool that uses machine learning to identify the most popular topics among its more than eight million professional users. The San Francisco-based firm has already been arming B2B marketers with Intent Leads, which […]

ZoomInfo powered by DiscoverOrg

Henry Schuck introduces the ‘ZoomInfo powered by DiscoverOrg’ platform and explains name change

DiscoverOrg on Tuesday will build upon its acquisition of ZoomInfo in February by adopting the latter’s name and moving forward with a combined platform designed to provide broader and more accurate contact data for B2B sales and marketing teams. The new platform, ZoomInfo powered by DiscoverOrg, will bring together information on tens of thousands of […]

Data.com replacement InsideView

InsideView reaches out to Data.com customers to avoid data degradation and other risks

InsideView on Thursday launched a series of tools designed to position it as the data provider of choice for firms scrambling to replace Salesforce’s soon-to-be-discontinued Data.com service. Companies that have used Data.com’s Clean and Prospector products to fuel their customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other applications have about a year before Salesforce officially retires […]

Salesforce Tableau acquisition

Salesforce buys Tableau: What analysts, partners and others are saying

Longtime observers of the marketing and sales technology space suggested acquisitions such as Salesforce’s $15.3 billion purchase of Tableau marks an increased emphasis on literally illustrating the actions brands need to take if they want to accomplish their objectives. San Francisco-based Salesforce announced on Monday it would acquire Tableau, best known as a provider of […]

SparkPost Signals

SparkPost Signals promises to help B2B marketers predict e-mail campaign performance

E-mail delivery and analytics service SparkPost on Tuesday launched SparkPost Signals, a predictive intelligence tool designed to help marketers better understand how their campaigns will perform. The San Francisco-based firm, whose B2B clients include Adobe, SAS and SiteCore, said SparkPost Signals will offer a “Health Score” their use of e-mail that scales from zero to 100 […]

PathFactory Concierge

PathFactory offers Concierge and other tools to create Netflix-style B2B online content experiences

PathFactory is trying to bridge the gap between consumer experiences like Netflix and Amazon by offering tools that let B2B marketers recommend  web site content based on visitors’ behaviour, what’s popular and what will help them take the next step in a buying journey. The Toronto-based firm is using this week’s Sirius Decisions Summit in […]

Growth Marketing B2B SaaS

Allocadia, TouchBistro and PagerDuty execs offer growth marketing tactics to acquire and retain customers

Toan Dinh knows better than to use his own phone to make the calls. That would be too obvious, and risky. Instead, the CMO for Demand Generation at point-of-sale software maker TouchBistro uses someone else’s device to cold call his competitors — calls in which he walks through a specific list of questions based on […]

Productboard

Productboard CEO wants to build a reputation for helping B2B firms tie features to customer needs

As more organizations pursuing digital transformation find themselves creating new software, mobile apps and other tools to satisfy their customers, a company called Productboard has a simple but important mission: helping companies figure out what to build, and to figure it out more quickly. Based in San Francisco, Productboard released an updated version of its […]

True Influence InsightBase 3.0

True Influence aims beyond ‘raw volume intent signals’ with InsightBase 3.0 to offer contact-level data

True Influence on Thursday will launch an upgraded version of its InsightBase tool that will compete with the likes of Bombora in offering intent data to connect B2B marketers  with the exact prospects who are actively in-market for products or services. Based in Princeton, N.J., True Influence will officially announce InsightBase 3.0 at the Martech […]

Adobe Summit

Adobe Summit 2019 shows how Marketo, Magento acquisitions are coalescing into the Adobe Experience Platform

Adobe is trying to demonstrate progress in bringing technologies from Marketo and Magento into its Adobe Experience Platform this week, but possibly the best insight at Adobe Summit so far was a glimpse at a more custom product: a dashboard the company uses to track its own marketing and sales performance. Speaking to approximately 17,000 […]

Episerver Aprimo

Aprimo and Episerver develop joint offering to help marketers create a stronger link between content and commerce

Aprimo on Wednesday will announce a partnership with a software provider called Episerver that is promising B2B firms a single, cloud-based dashboard to avoid project delays or “rogue campaigns” due to lack of standards or inconsistencies across marketing. The joint offering, which is coming out of Episerver’s customer event in Stockholm, Sweden, means Aprimo’s marketing […]

SurveyMonkey Srinivasan

SurveyMonkey CMO Leela Srinivasan wants to answer questions across the entire enterprise

The best thing for SurveyMonkey CMO Leela Srinivasan to focus on is: Strengthening awareness and perception of the firm’s brand Educating the market about its enterprise capabilities Demonstrating traction with key customers As you might have guessed, the correct answer to that question would be “all of the above,” according to Srinivasan, who joined the […]