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Category: WCMS

  • Managing the Madness – The Marketing Technology Explosion

    Managing the Madness – The Marketing Technology Explosion If you are a marketer or a technologist or both, I am sure you have by now seen Scott Brinker’s Marketing Technology Supergraphic that was published last week. It is an orchestration of 947 technology vendors in 43 categories and not yet complete because the landscape is…

  • SiteCore Acquires CommerceServer – From Technology Fragmentation to Consolidation

    From technology fragmentation to consolidation The recent (2 days ago to be precise) acquisition of CommerceServer.net (a leading eCommerce platform) by SiteCore (a leading Web Experience Management Platform) is not just a flash in the pan. While it may sound like yet another technology acquisitions, I see this as a step towards the eventual “convergence”…

  • The Technology Dilemma – What Fuels your eStore Experience!!!

    What Fuels your eStore Experience!!! If you are a retailer or a brand that is trying to get into the business of selling product(s) online through an online store, you would have either asked or been asked this question a hundred times: Should you use your eCommerce platform to enable your store experience or should…

  • Digital Asset Management – Operations to Innovation!!!

    When the Henry Stewart Events team (organizers of the Digital Asset Management conference across the globe) asked me to speak at the Chicago event, my first reaction was why a conference on DAM and what is there to talk about. But it did not take me long to realize that the answer to the question…

  • mOS – Marketing Operating System | A Vision Part II

    As the year ends, a lot gets written on what worked and what did not work through the year and more interestingly “predictions” for what’s going to follow. As we kick start our digital & marketing efforts for 2013, a lot of expectations have been set around innovation & expansion of key marketing trends: Big…

  • What Makes a Marketing Technologist – Just Technology?

    If there is one thing that struck a very strong chord with me in 2012, it has been the notion of MARKETING TECHNOLOGY and a strong need for MARKETING TECHNOLOGISTS in order to enable Marketing in a Digital World (yes not the same as Digital Marketing). The year of course started with a LOT of…

  • Time for mOS – Marketing Operating System aka iOS? A Vision – Part I

    I have been wanting to write up something on what I expect as the ultimate point for Marketing Automation & Innovation but I just kept procrastinating the work. But last night’s news on Oracle’s acquisition of Eloqua for a good $871 million dollar pushed me to share my dream of using an “mOS” – Marketing…

  • eCommerce vs Digital Landscape OR eCommerce Within Digital Landscape?

    In an ever evolving and highly complex digital landscape, nothing is a simple straight line let alone the consumer journey or even the consumer’s final destination that has gone way beyond the traditional conversion or selling point. As a matter of fact, you may argue that the real journey or the true battle for the…

  • A Digital Experience Platform – Beyond just a WCM

    Today’s digital marketing landscape is a complex ecosystem created by emerging touch points and new inter-dependent media channels. Consumers now have direct access to information and a higher expectation for relevant and personalized content at their finger tips anytime & anywhere. Conventional approach by marketers to this complexity has been rather ad-hoc and disparate in…