MarTech. You could also call it marketing technology if you still had the time. In today's working world, time in general - and in marketing in particular - has become a rare commodity. A study proves this all too clearly: today, a marketing project manager and his team have to complete six times as many projects as was the case 10 years ago. Without an optimally balanced MarTech stack, this workload can hardly be managed.
In addition, it is important to consider the symbiosis between IT and marketing due to this development. Both departments have to work hand in hand to keep up with the extensive and constantly changing market development. This is another reason why MarTech platforms play a crucial role.
In this blog post, we first briefly review the term MarTech. Then, we'll introduce you to the best martech tools for each area of marketing technologies.
Marketing technologies are - roughly speaking - all those technical tools that help you and your marketing team to implement marketing strategies. It doesn't matter whether this implementation takes place offline or online. These include, for example, MarTech tools for data collection and data provision, as well as for the administration of customer data, marketing processes, analyses, workflows and much more.
However, if you're looking for a MarTech tool that's right for your business and also works perfectly with your existing Martech stack, you're quite literally spoiled for choice. In 2020 alone, over 8,000 vendors offered diverse marketing technologies for the various martech platforms:
(source: Martech 5000)
There are several yearly MarTech Events, both digital and in person, to get information on the newest tools and anticipated marketing trends. To make the choice a little easier for you, we now present the best MarTech tools for the respective marketing technology areas.
Social media, for example, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn & Co. are fantastic channels to increase your brand awareness, build communities and market products and services. However, coordinating your content strategy across all these channels is a mammoth task.
One of the best MarTech tools that make this task much easier is Sprinklr.
A no less good alternative, with which you can significantly reduce the workload in this area, is the MarTech platform Kontentino.
PIM (Product Information Management) and DAM (Data Asset Management) play a crucial role in any sound marketing strategy. Self-created data or data received via customer communication is managed, organized and distributed with these MarTech tools. This is often referred to as master data management. Canto is one of the best martech tools for DMA.
In the area of PIM, the software solutions from Stibo Systems.
Content management systems centralize your content creation. Not just for the web, but for all the channels your business uses. DXPs (Digital Experience Platforms) such as Contentpepper use automated processes that make the creation as well as the distribution of your content across all digital touchpoints much more efficient.
If you are looking for a MarTech tool that is specific to MS-Office in terms of CMS, then we would like to recommend our empower® Suite.
With empower®, for example, all PowerPoint slides, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets are accessible in a central library. All documents and email signatures are adapted to the corporate design company-wide and can be edited simultaneously from different touchpoints. The MarTech tool can easily integrate into your IT environment via any DAM system. In addition, you and your team can access slides from an external PIM system directly in PowerPoint, for example.
empower® Suite
If you are interested in our MarTech tool in the area of Content Management Systems for Microsoft Office, please contact us. We are already looking forward to your contact with us at empower®.