It seems that a week doesn’t go by these days without major software vendors announcing updates to their marketing software portfolios, and the past few days were no exception as rivals Oracle and Salesforce.com both made some news.

While perhaps incremental advancements taken one by one, the announcements speak to the heightening competition in the software segment as Oracle, Salesforce.com and other vendors move to build out full-blown “customer engagement” suites and directly target chief marketing officers.

On Thursday, Oracle said it has created a “first of its kind” integration between its Marketing Cloud and Box, the cloud-based file storage and sharing vendor.

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