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While back-to-school spending has been sluggish this summer, it has shown strong growth in the social media and mobile channels, according to new research from IBM.
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IBM today announced the results of its Q1 2012 online mobile and buying trends study. The results showed that mobile commerce accounted for 13.3 percent of all sales, up from just 7% during Q1 2011, said Jay Henderson, strategy director at IBM Digital Marketing.
IBM will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based data search solutions company, said David Corrigan, director of strategy for IBM's InfoSphere Portfolio. He expects the deal to close within a month to six weeks.
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More than 18% of Christmas Day online traffic was initiated on a mobile device, an 8.4% increase year-over-year, according to an IBM report. Transactions completed on mobile devices also grew, from 5.3% in 2010 to 14.4% in 2011. Christmas Day online sales rose by 16.4% compared with last year's sales figures.
Fifteen percent of e-commerce shoppers will log onto brand websites using a mobile device this holiday season, according to the IBM Coremetrics Benchmark Industry Report released Nov. 4. The study also predicts total online holiday shopping in November will grow 15% compared with last year.
IBM Corp. named Virginia Rometty its president and CEO, the technology company said on Oct. 25. Rometty will remain in her post as SVP and group executive for sales, marketing and strategy at IBM until the appointment takes effect on Jan. 1.
John Squire, chief strategy officer with marketing technology company IBM Coremetrics, discusses IBM's recent Commerce-as-a-Service and Social Media Marketing product launches. IBM was ranked atop Forrester Research's Oct. 6 web analytics Wave.
Fifty-six percent of CMOs said they are not fully prepared to be held accountable for marketing return on investment (ROI), according to the IBM's Oct. 11 Global Chief Marketing Officer Study.
Technology service providers earned $1.65 billion in revenue from analytics applications last year, a 17.7% increase compared with 2009, according to a Gartner report. Analytics revenue will increase 10.5% in the next five years, according to the research firm.
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IBM launched two cloud-based solutions on March 24 designed to help marketers gain real-time, actionable insight from data available across social media channels. The solutions, Coremetrics Social and Unica Pivotal Veracity Email Optimization Suite, seek to expand IBM's business analytics capabilities and enable IBM clients to create and understand social campaigns.
IBM launched a consulting practice on March 14 to help clients automate marketing, selling and fulfillment and create global brand presences. The Armonk, NY-based company created the "Smarter Commerce" initiative to help companies adapt across their entire enterprise to customer demands in a digital marketplace, said Craig Hayman, GM of the industry solutions group at IBM.
HP has agreed to acquire Vertica, an analytics platform provider, the companies said February 14. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of HP's 2011 fiscal year, which will end April 30. An HP spokesperson told Direct Marketing News that "it's too soon to tell if Vertica will retain its brand" and added that "employee decisions will be made at the conclusion of the acquisition process."
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