TMCNet:  Oracle Marketing Cloud Enhancements Simplify Marketing While Delivering Personal Customer Experiences

[July 17, 2014]

Oracle Marketing Cloud Enhancements Simplify Marketing While Delivering Personal Customer Experiences

(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oracle Marketing Cloud Interact 2014, San Francisco -- News Summary The marketing landscape is increasingly crowded with one-off technology solutions that can actually complicate the very tasks marketers need to simplify, while adding significant complexity for their IT counterparts. Modern marketing demands a unified, data-driven approach, not the data silos and integration challenges that point solutions create. Marketers need easy access to consolidated data to better engage audiences and analyze performance. Today, Oracle announced updates to Oracle Marketing Cloud designed to deliver simplified, customer-centric marketing and create ideal customers.

News Facts * Building on its commitment to help CMOs and global marketing teams execute marketing campaigns that have a measurable impact on revenue, Oracle today announced new features and enhancements to .

* Key updates include look-alike modeling that helps companies accurately pinpoint ideal customer prospects, more mobile-native engagement options, and content marketing capabilities that make it easier for marketers to simplify content creation and distribution across multiple channels.

* The enhancements further integrate Oracle's range of marketing solutions--which include , , , and Oracle Social Marketing--and reinforce Oracle Marketing Cloud's position as the industry's most comprehensive marketing platform.

Increase Customer Centricity with Messaging, Mobile, and Content Enhancements Automated workflow for look-alike models. Marketers and publishers can use Oracle's BlueKai data management platform to easily build customized look-alike models that learn from the seed data of existing top customers to find new, high-value audiences. They also can use best-of-breed modelers to access multivariant modeling technology seamlessly within Oracle's BlueKai data management platform.

Push notifications deliver messages at the right time. Marketers can now send personalized push notifications to mobile devices via Oracle Responsys Marketing Platform Cloud Service--either alone or as part of multistage, cross-channel marketing programs--further personalizing the customer experience across any channel with which the customers want to engage.

Personas deliver the right content. Marketers can now build personas that reflect the attributes of their ideal customers. With a click of a button, they can activate them as segments in Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud Service to deliver persona-driven messaging across e-mail, display, mobile, and social channels.

Simplify Marketing with Improved Content-Creation Tools Optimize cross-channel marketing management. User interface enhancements to Oracle Responsys Marketing Platform Cloud Service make it easier than ever for marketers to orchestrate experiences and create a digital dialogue across e-mail, SMS, push notifications, web, social, and display advertising.

Gain a single view of programs, campaigns, and content. With Oracle's marketing calendar, marketers can align content with programs and integrate activities from Oracle Content Marketing, Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud Service, and third-party marketing partners.

Streamline e-mail creation. Enhancements to both Oracle Responsys' and Oracle Eloqua's e-mail message designer help marketers quickly create and test pixel-perfect responsive e-mails. Working from standard templates, easily imported designs, or a blank canvas, marketers can deliver highly personalized messages regardless of technical skill.

Leverage Enterprise-Scale Data Management, Automation, and Marketing Processes Orchestrate content marketing workflows across multiple teams and stakeholders. New granular rules in Oracle Content Marketing help marketers build precise content-development workflows. Expanding the reach of who can contribute and approve content simplifies high-volume content creation, a critical element of a modern marketing strategy.

Streamline management and maintenance. A new Oracle Eloqua marketing operations center allows marketing operations teams to quickly analyze system performance and throughput and easily perform maintenance tasks, simplifying the administration of an organization's large-scale, global marketing hub.

Automate SMS messaging. Oracle Responsys APIs have been extended to support automated, programmatic SMS messaging.

Supporting Quote "Delivering marketing solutions that simplify marketing processes and enable true customer-centric marketing are key to creating ideal customers and brand advocates," said John Stetic, group vice president, Products, Oracle Marketing Cloud. "The latest updates to Oracle Marketing Cloud reinforce our commitment to delivering marketing simplicity in an easy-to-use, enterprise-ready marketing platform so marketers can focus on their ultimate objective--attracting and developing ideal customers." Supporting Resources * Oracle Marketing Cloud Interact 2014 : A Modern Marketing Experience * #Interact14 on Twitter * Oracle Marketing Cloud * Oracle Responsys * Oracle Eloqua * Oracle Bluekai * Oracle Content Marketing * Oracle Social Cloud About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com .

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