comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued) vs. Oracle Moat Measurement

DAx has the features, very advanced features (mentioned later) that a power user needs, and is highly customizable, but doesn't require software or hardware ownership. For those capabilities that are not currently there, the customer reporting team often finds a workable solution that we can present to our client.
For the more basic users and executives, the dashboard often meets their needs; else the report tab can help with quick access to metrics that have already been built by analysts.
Lastly, the level of complex analysis in the tool still impresses. You can analyze web events at the event level, visit level and visitor level. You can apply filters at the report level (for all three - event, visit and visitor) or metric level (again for all three levels). On top of that, they have a concept of scope and rules which, combined with the 3 levels, can really allow a power analyst to ask just about any question and get an answer.

Moat is well suited to implement into digital placements that are being served through third-party ad servers (Campaign Manager, Flashtalking, etc). It holds your publishers accountable from a viewability standpoint. If you are running high dynamic or site serving placements with 1x1 or click trackers, you aren't able to measure viewability and are at the mercy of publishers providing viewability metrics.

Incentivized

• DAx has a really flexible user interface and if implemented correctly has the potential for great reporting.
• StreamSense is an excellent video counting add on for DAx. Gets very granular data.
• The virtual sites concept really makes segmenting data very efficient and logical.

• Breaks down how well each creative has done in a campaign.
• Allows us to see the progress of a campaign through its time live.
• Can easily be organized to pull the data you're looking for.
• Can export into an excel doc to then dig deeper and format and look at data outside of Moat.

Incentivized

• While I know they are making strides in this area, Digital Analytix is definitely built with power users in mind. The learning curve can be steep.
• Because the platform is non-restrictive in terms of label/variable naming, power users need to have intimate knowledge of their schema in order to build reports on their custom variables.

• I’ve experienced some issues exporting reports into an Excel doc and have to manually copy and paste data with can be very time-consuming.
• You have to manually wrap video tags with the MOAT pixel which can be a tedious process.
• Video and display are in separate interfaces so you have to export separately and then consolidate into one report.

Incentivized

My company does not utilize Digital Analytix for our own service, we simply provide professional services for it. As such, I can't really answer this question in a meaningful way.

I have proficiency with Google, Adobe and IBM (formerly Unica's) enterprise offerings. For companies primarily interested in basic reporting, managing a lot of users with very similar needs, and who don't necessarily have the in-house manpower or expertise to build a lot of reporting from scratch Google and Adobe's offerings can typically be safer choices. comScore and Unica offer a more advanced, analyst friendly tool that can be essential for targeted marketing and for a more flexible implementation and can still do all the things that their competitors can do - if you're satisfied with the learning curve for basic users, the advanced capabilities of comScore make this a very worthwhile tool for a digital business.

Moat gives our team more insight into how campaigns are running. They give a more detailed breakdown per creative whereas other platforms only touch upon the limited or more specific information.

Incentivized

• I have confidence that current and future content will be captured accurately.

• It has given the media and analytics team more granular metrics to measure for campaigns that may have awareness objectives and no KPIs.
• Measuring view ability ensures that clients media dollars are being viewed by the targeted audience.
• Moat allows you to gain metrics that can be very insightful and how users are interacting with placements, creative, etc.

Incentivized