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Media Release: Aprimo launches integrated mobile capabilities for digital marketers

Catriona Pollard - Thursday, July 14, 2011

Aprimo®, a global leader in cloud-based integrated marketing software, has announced a new Mobile Marketing module for Aprimo Marketing Studio® On Demand (AMS On Demand) that adds integrated text messaging (SMS) capabilities to its campaign management offering.

With the new Mobile Marketing solution, customers can launch SMS campaigns from within their AMS On Demand platform, enabling them to leverage the same segmentation, dialogue and campaign management functions used for other digital marketing channels such as e-mail and microsites.

Recent data from the International Telecommunications Union shows that the total number of SMS messages sent globally tripled between 2007 and 2010, from an estimated 1.8 trillion to 6.1 trillion. Close to 200,000 text messages are now sent every second.

Today, more companies are using SMS to gain new customers, build deeper relationships and create new revenue opportunities through up-selling and cross-selling.

Chief Marketing Officer of Aprimo, Lisa Arthur said, “Mobile has become an increasingly important channel for companies across all industries to reach their customers and prospects.”

“Managing everything, including email, social, SMS and offline, from a single platform ensures consistency, guarantees a better overall user experience and gives marketers concrete data that shows how new channels such as mobile are performing,” said Ms Arthur.

Aprimo’s SMS messaging capabilities are integrated within the familiar AMS On Demand platform, allowing for coordination of SMS text messaging with other digital marketing efforts, including campaign management tools and audience data.

Existing Aprimo customers can begin using the new SMS capabilities immediately. For more information about the AMS On Demand Mobile Marketing, please visit: www.Aprimo.com/SMS.

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About Aprimo
Aprimo, a Teradata company, is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organisations. Through the use of Aprimo’s Integrated Marketing Management (IMM) software for B2B and B2C, marketers can integrate their organisations, get control of budget and spends, eliminate internal silos with streamlined workflows, and execute innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measurable return on investment. Hundreds of thousands of marketers trust Aprimo to revolutionise their marketing. Aprimo customers include over one third of Fortune 100 companies, and nearly one quarter of Global 100 companies. Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide. For more information, call +61 (0) 2 8404 4154 or visit www.aprimo.com.

Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), Aprimo’s parent company, is the world's leader in data warehousing and integrated marketing management through its database software, enterprise data warehousing, data warehouse appliances, and enterprise analytics. Teradata acquired Aprimo in January 2011. For more information, visit www.teradata.com.


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Media Release: Aprimo Customer Kodak Receives Sales & Marketing Alignment Award from DemandGen Report

Catriona Pollard - Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Metrics Include 216 Percent Increase in Email Open rates, 550 Percent Increase in Click-through Rates and One Million+ New Campaign Entries

Aprimo, a global leader in cloud-based integrated marketing software, congratulates the Graphic Communications group of Kodak, the world's foremost imaging innovator, on receiving a 2011 DemandGen Report Sales & Marketing Alignment Award for its success using Aprimo Marketing Studio (AMS). DemandGen cited Kodak’s innovative lead scoring approach and its use of AMS to more quickly and cost-effectively qualify leads for faster sales close. Data-driven understanding of prospects’ movement through awareness, interest, desire and action has delivered impressive metrics: email open rates up 216 percent, click-throughs up 550 percent and one million+ new campaign entries, each containing up-to-date prospect data for ongoing nurturing.

Before we started with this initiative, the quality of our leads needed to be improved and we weren’t tightly aligned with sales,” said Michael Malec, with Kodak. “Today, with better scoring and strategic lead nurturing using Aprimo Marketing Studio, our ‘qualified’ leads are much more likely to buy from sales after hand-off. And these prospects have reached this point in our process more efficiently and for far less cost to Kodak.”

Kodak dropped arbitrary assessments – “hot,” “warm,” and “cold” – and replaced them with metrics-driven thresholds, agreed to beforehand by Marketing and Sales. Using Aprimo, Kodak strategically nurtures its leads, ensuring that only “marketing qualified leads” (MQLs) go to sales. Now the hand-off between Marketing and Sales is more of a collaborative handshake, with tight alignment between the two.

“Aligning sales and marketing goals can help bring prospects from awareness to sale more quickly and cost-effectively,” said Lisa Arthur, Chief Marketing Officer of Aprimo. “When that happens, the marketing team is free to focus on prospects and can design campaigns that build deeper engagement, improve lead flow and deliver maximum return on marketing investment.”

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About Aprimo
Aprimo, a Teradata company, is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organisations. Through the use of Aprimo’s Integrated Marketing Management (IMM) software for B2B and B2C, marketers can integrate their organisations, get control of budget and spends, eliminate internal silos with streamlined workflows, and execute innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measurable return on investment. Hundreds of thousands of marketers trust Aprimo to revolutionise their marketing. Aprimo customers include over one third of Fortune 100 companies, and nearly one quarter of Global 100 companies. Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide. For more information, call +61 (0) 2 8404 4154 or visit www.aprimo.com.

TeradataCorporation (NYSE: TDC), Aprimo’s parent company, is the world's leader in data warehousing and integrated marketing management through its database software, enterprise data warehousing, data warehouse appliances, and enterprise analytics. Teradata acquired Aprimo in January 2011. For more information, visit www.teradata.com.


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Media Release: Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand to manage ABC Commercial VIP Program

Catriona Pollard - Thursday, December 16, 2010
Leading global provider of marketing software and services Aprimo® Inc. have partnered with ABC Commercial to enable its ABC Shop ‘VIP’ Loyalty Program activities. 

This partnership will allow ABC Commercial to manage the VIP program in-house, and generate rich customer communication based on their ABC preferences, profile and activity history. 

The ABC will specifically be using Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand integrated software and will incorporate both direct email and SMS messaging services. 

ABC VIP is a customer loyalty program run by ABC Commercial, the ABC division responsible for the management of a range of media businesses delivering products and services to the global marketplace.    

Regional Director of Aprimo, Dermot McCutcheon said, “Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand is an effective tool to help the ABC realise the full value of the VIP Loyalty Program and we are looking forward to helping them achieve this.”

“This strategic decision will allow the ABC to benefit from a comprehensive marketing platform that optimises performance on marketing investments as well as improving go-to market- execution and will help generate more revenue.”

“The solution enables the ABC to generate relevant and rich communication with the customer, based on preferences, profile and activities,” said Mr McCutcheon. 

ABC Loyalty Program customers will now have the opportunity to log on to the ABC Commercial sites using a secure ID and password. They will also be able to update their preferences and profile and make purchases from the site. 

Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand provides modular marketing solutions that allows marketers to capture their target audience, engage them in more relevant and meaningful dialogue, convert them to customers and cultivate the lifetime value of each customer relationship. 

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Aprimo is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organisations. The company’s integrated marketing software enables marketers to take control of budget and spends, eliminating internal silos with streamlined workflows, and executing innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measureable ROI. Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide.


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Disruptive Trends in B2B Marketing: Interview with Aprimo CMO Lisa Arthur

Catriona Pollard - Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Disruptive Trends in B2B Marketing: Interview with Aprimo CMO Lisa Arthur
Key findings about the emerging business models that are transforming marketing
Sydney (December 15, 2010) –Aprimo® Inc., a global leader in integrated, on-demand marketing software solutions for both B2B and B2C companies, is providing online access to Gartner’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Perspectives interview with its CMO, Lisa Arthur. The interview explores disruptive trends in B2B marketing, across social media, mobile and digital marketing, that will further define integrated marketing management (IMM) in the coming decade. 
“This is an exciting time to be a CMO because art and science are converging before our eyes,” says Lisa Arthur. “From social media to digital and mobile marketing, we are profoundly changing how brands engage with customers. We’re finally at a point where the linkage between what we do and its actual contribution to revenue is knowable and, equally important, liberating.” 
Gartner’s Jennifer Beck extracts several key findings from her interview with Lisa Arthur and offers actionable recommendations. Notable insights analyzed within the report include:
Many senior marketing managers are making the mistake of adopting social media as a tactic rather than an integrated part of their media mix
The “collaborative community” is potentially the next most-disruptive trend across marketing functions
A brand is empty, if it doesn't communicate a clear and expressed value to an audience.
CIOs and CMOs must collectively own the customer experience
Gartner’s CMO Perspectives is a series of interviews with strategic thinkers that celebrates their successes and assesses their impact on business and the industry.
To learn more about these insights and other key findings and recommendations from the report, please download Marketing Essentials: CMO Perspectives, Lisa Arthur here.  Lisa’s blog will also explore many of these topics in more detail, beginning with the concept of “collaborative communities,” which is available now by visiting Aprimo’s community blog (1).  You may also follow Lisa Arthur on Twitter, @lisaarthur.  
(1) Lisa Arthur’s Blog: http://blogs.marketingstudio.aprimo.com/blog/cmo/0/0/let-marketing-leads-find-you 
About Aprimo
Aprimo is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organizations. The company’s integrated marketing software, AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2C and AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2B, enables marketers to navigate the changing role of marketing, by taking control of budget and spends, eliminating internal silos with streamlined workflows, and executing innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measurable return on investment.  Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide.  For more information call +1.317.803.4300 or visit http://www.aprimo.com.
Disruptive Trends in B2B Marketing: Interview with Aprimo CMO Lisa Arthur
Key findings about the emerging business models that are transforming marketing
Sydney (December 15, 2010) –Aprimo® Inc., a global leader in integrated, on-demand marketing software solutions for both B2B and B2C companies, is providing online access to Gartner’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Perspectives interview with its CMO, Lisa Arthur. The interview explores disruptive trends in B2B marketing, across social media, mobile and digital marketing, that will further define integrated marketing management (IMM) in the coming decade. 
“This is an exciting time to be a CMO because art and science are converging before our eyes,” says Lisa Arthur. “From social media to digital and mobile marketing, we are profoundly changing how brands engage with customers. We’re finally at a point where the linkage between what we do and its actual contribution to revenue is knowable and, equally important, liberating.” 
Gartner’s Jennifer Beck extracts several key findings from her interview with Lisa Arthur and offers actionable recommendations. Notable insights analyzed within the report include:
Many senior marketing managers are making the mistake of adopting social media as a tactic rather than an integrated part of their media mix
The “collaborative community” is potentially the next most-disruptive trend across marketing functions
A brand is empty, if it doesn't communicate a clear and expressed value to an audience.
CIOs and CMOs must collectively own the customer experience
Gartner’s CMO Perspectives is a series of interviews with strategic thinkers that celebrates their successes and assesses their impact on business and the industry.
To learn more about these insights and other key findings and recommendations from the report, please download Marketing Essentials: CMO Perspectives, Lisa Arthur here.  Lisa’s blog will also explore many of these topics in more detail, beginning with the concept of “collaborative communities,” which is available now by visiting Aprimo’s community blog (1).  You may also follow Lisa Arthur on Twitter, @lisaarthur.  
(1) Lisa Arthur’s Blog: http://blogs.marketingstudio.aprimo.com/blog/cmo/0/0/let-marketing-leads-find-you 
About Aprimo
Aprimo is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organizations. The company’s integrated marketing software, AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2C and AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2B, enables marketers to navigate the changing role of marketing, by taking control of budget and spends, eliminating internal silos with streamlined workflows, and executing innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measurable return on investment.  Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide.  For more information call +1.317.803.4300 or visit http://www.aprimo.com.
Disruptive Trends in B2B Marketing: Interview with Aprimo CMO Lisa Arthur
Key findings about the emerging business models that are transforming marketing
Sydney (December 15, 2010) –Aprimo® Inc., a global leader in integrated, on-demand marketing software solutions for both B2B and B2C companies, is providing online access to Gartner’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Perspectives interview with its CMO, Lisa Arthur. The interview explores disruptive trends in B2B marketing, across social media, mobile and digital marketing, that will further define integrated marketing management (IMM) in the coming decade. 
“This is an exciting time to be a CMO because art and science are converging before our eyes,” says Lisa Arthur. “From social media to digital and mobile marketing, we are profoundly changing how brands engage with customers. We’re finally at a point where the linkage between what we do and its actual contribution to revenue is knowable and, equally important, liberating.” 
Gartner’s Jennifer Beck extracts several key findings from her interview with Lisa Arthur and offers actionable recommendations. Notable insights analyzed within the report include:
Many senior marketing managers are making the mistake of adopting social media as a tactic rather than an integrated part of their media mix
The “collaborative community” is potentially the next most-disruptive trend across marketing functions
A brand is empty, if it doesn't communicate a clear and expressed value to an audience.
CIOs and CMOs must collectively own the customer experience
Gartner’s CMO Perspectives is a series of interviews with strategic thinkers that celebrates their successes and assesses their impact on business and the industry.
To learn more about these insights and other key findings and recommendations from the report, please download Marketing Essentials: CMO Perspectives, Lisa Arthur here.  Lisa’s blog will also explore many of these topics in more detail, beginning with the concept of “collaborative communities,” which is available now by visiting Aprimo’s community blog (1).  You may also follow Lisa Arthur on Twitter, @lisaarthur.  
(1) Lisa Arthur’s Blog: http://blogs.marketingstudio.aprimo.com/blog/cmo/0/0/let-marketing-leads-find-you 
About Aprimo
Aprimo is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organizations. The company’s integrated marketing software, AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2C and AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2B, enables marketers to navigate the changing role of marketing, by taking control of budget and spends, eliminating internal silos with streamlined workflows, and executing innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measurable return on investment.  Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide.  For more information call +1.317.803.4300 or visit http://www.aprimo.com.

Key findings about the emerging business models that are transforming marketing

Sydney (December 15, 2010)Aprimo® Inc., a global leader in integrated, on-demand marketing software solutions for both B2B and B2C companies, is providing online access to Gartner’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Perspectives interview with its CMO, Lisa Arthur. The interview explores disruptive trends in B2B marketing, across social media, mobile and digital marketing, that will further define integrated marketing management (IMM) in the coming decade. 

“This is an exciting time to be a CMO because art and science are converging before our eyes,” says Lisa Arthur. “From social media to digital and mobile marketing, we are profoundly changing how brands engage with customers. We’re finally at a point where the linkage between what we do and its actual contribution to revenue is knowable and, equally important, liberating.” 

Gartner’s Jennifer Beck extracts several key findings from her interview with Lisa Arthur and offers actionable recommendations. Notable insights analyzed within the report include:

  •  Many senior marketing managers are making the mistake of adopting social media as a tactic rather than an integrated part of their media mix
  • The “collaborative community” is potentially the next most-disruptive trend across marketing functions
  • A brand is empty, if it doesn't communicate a clear and expressed value to an audience.
  • CIOs and CMOs must collectively own the customer experience

Gartner’s CMO Perspectives is a series of interviews with strategic thinkers that celebrates their successes and assesses their impact on business and the industry.

To learn more about these insights and other key findings and recommendations from the report, please download Marketing Essentials: CMO Perspectives, Lisa Arthur here.  Lisa’s blog will also explore many of these topics in more detail, beginning with the concept of “collaborative communities,” which is available now by visiting Aprimo’s community blog.  You may also follow Lisa Arthur on Twitter, @lisaarthur.  

About Aprimo
Aprimo is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organizations. The company’s integrated marketing software, AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2C and AprimoMarketingStudio® forB2B, enables marketers to navigate the changing role of marketing, by taking control of budget and spends, eliminating internal silos with streamlined workflows, and executing innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measurable return on investment. Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide.  


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