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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Analytics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe acquired Omniture in 2009 and re-branded the platform as SiteCatalyst. It is now part of Adobe Marketing Cloud along with other products such as social marketing, test and targeting, and tag management. SiteCatalyst is one of the leading vendors in the web analytics category and is particularly strong in combining web analytics with other digital marketing capabilities like audience management and data management. Adobe Analytics also includes predictive marketing capabilities that help…N/A

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Analytics
    We initially had Adobe Analytics and later added other tools to the portfolio.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Analytics
    Adobe Analytics is suited for all web properties to provide Metrics, Data collection and tracking and is more robust.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Analytics
    As the implementation involves multiple products to be integrated together like Adobe Experience Manager, Target, Adobe Audience Manager, We recommended Adobe Analytics as the best suitable product for analytics, as the tracked data would be seamlessly available to other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Analytics
    Adobe Analytics (previously known as Omniture) is the de-facto standard across the media industry. Google has very quickly caught up with Adobe and it is always worthwhile to take a very long look at Google Analytics to evaluate the differences. Your decision will depend on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Analytics
    Webtrends, Coremetrics, Google Analytics
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    I think Adobe Marketo Engage is the best out of all of them. Well, at least for 85% of the B2B businesses with a single business focus/sales force. For larger organizations with multiple business units and sales teams, all needing to share the same database, I think Oracle Eloqu…
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud can't touch the features of Marketo with a 10 foot pole. Marketo is a full feature MAP while SFDC MC (Pardot) requires you to purchase the entire SDFDC tech stack to start to get comparable features. Marketo natively integrates with the Adobe martec …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    During my professional experience, I had the opportunity to use Adobe Marketo Engage alongside other solutions like HubSpot and Salesforce Marketing Cloud. While these tools offer advanced capabilities, especially in terms of integration and automation, Marketo Engage stands …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Our client has already used the market and we have done automation using this system. And, then, we offered a ready-made solution to our other clients.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    180 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    283 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    140 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    239 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    180 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    291 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    104 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    189 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    Features
    Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    7.9
    100 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking7.591 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement7.797 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting8.398 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking8.696 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking8.496 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time6.994 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking8.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards8.295 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1074 Ratings
    1% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.8976 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings7.4955 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.0927 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings7.2995 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.8979 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.0939 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.61037 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.51032 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.5931 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.2
    1036 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.51009 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.4985 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings7.5983 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.8930 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.9
    962 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings6.1785 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.6918 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    614 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings6.4606 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings7.2375 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.5
    1036 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.2978 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.81018 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.5962 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1026 Ratings
    1% above category average
    API00 Ratings7.9890 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.4759 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.5908 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings8.4883 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.4316 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings6.5210 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.348 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lead Forensics
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (281 ratings)
    8.7
    (1244 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (140 ratings)
    4.5
    (147 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (133 ratings)
    5.0
    (99 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (42 ratings)
    8.6
    (92 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    About two years ago, we transitioned our property from a three-star hotel to a four-star resort after a multi-million-dollar renovation. In the conversion, we wanted to start reaching out to a younger, affluent demographic that had the means to spend for vacation in a resort area. First and foremost, we want to see if vacations are being booked by desktop computers, laptops or mobile phones. With Adobe Analytics, we can see how a Guest books a room. What do they view? What rooms types do they like? Are they comparing rooms and if they give up searching, where are they else looking and are they coming back. It is a feature where how can we complete the sale? The new process we are also trying to keep Guests on the site is ending our relationship with OpenTable and doing all our resort restaurant reservations in-house. If the Guests were exclusively using OpenTable, we could not track where else on our resort site they are going? Finally, what marketing promotional rates are getting the most drive from
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    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is an excellent tool for hosting registration forms and sending out tokenized emails based on a particular person's information within your database. For example, if someone attends an event or webinar and indicates that they'd like to learn more about your product, then Adobe Marketo Engage can easily trigger a specific email template to that person that will be personalized with tokens about them. The pixel tracking that can be applied to any web page is also very helpful. If you want to focus on a more 1:1 type of follow up with a Lead, then the automated emails are not going to be as useful.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • This product, Adobe Analytics, does a great job of helping us. I think it, it, it does an excellent job of outlining every step of the user journey, as well as giving a good, strong framework to work with as it relates to attribution, attribution of marketing data, and marketing channels, and how, where our users are coming from, how effective those marketing activities are.
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    • Adobe Marketo Engage excels at automating complex marketing workflows and delivering personalized customer experiences at scale.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage enables marketers to create targeted campaigns, schedule automated email sequences, and personalize content based on user demographics and interactions, resulting in more relevant customer engagement.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage provides robust analytics and reporting, allowing teams to track campaign performance, monitor conversion rates, and measure return on investment(ROI).
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • The tool is heavily a drag and drop kind of dashboard. You're building dashboards on the fly. So oftentimes, I learn my process and how to do things I'm comfortable with, that I can repeat, and get those answers on a consistent basis. But oftentimes, I may not find it easy to take it to the next level. So, areas that can improve are recommending or suggesting. Here's what you might try to improve in this report that you're looking at. Try adding in this metric, or try splicing it this way. Oftentimes, I feel like it requires me to go off and learn these techniques on the side, versus having them right there within the tool. Those recommendations, those helpful tips, and tricks.
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    Adobe
    • The most important thing is the UI; it still looks very old and should be updated to meet current market design standards.
    • Admin Complexity: It should be easy to setup at the first go.
    • Tool Navigation: Navigation should be more easier.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We need it to discover threats long before they become a loophole in the security ecosystem. Also, it is very much compliant with customer standards and expectations. It provides marketing intelligence through in-depth analysis. Overall, a very good product to gain customer attention and thereby improve market
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    Adobe
    We're likely to renew for several reasons:
    • Now that it's been implemented, I can't imagine not having marketing automation and the easy interface that Marketo provides to run our campaigns
    • Marketo's community and customer service is fantastic; I know that when I need help, I'll get it
    • Marketo continues to improve the product, so I know that I can expect it to be even more useful in the future
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    Usability
    Adobe
    It is necessary to have a minimum knowledge on tracking tools so you can use the tool on full performance. It is not an introduction tool, so please bear that in mind. Once you got the knowledge you just need a small training on how to create your custom reports, where to find the components you need and how to add them to your dashboard. Then you share your report or create a rule for periodic sharing and it's done. Finally, if you have a lot of data stored the tool might be a little slower but that's ok.
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    Adobe
    In some aspects, the tool can feel quite clunky in parts. But with the rich feature set it has, it's understandable. There is a lot of room for improvement for the user interface. The system itself doesn't have a slick or modern feel, so the usability could feel nicer to use with these areas considered.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    I do not ever recall a time when Adobe Analytics was unavailable to me to use in the 8 or so years I have been an end user of the product. My most-used day-to-day analytics tool Parse.ly however, generally has a multiple hours planned offline maintenance every two to four weeks, and sometimes has issues collecting realtime analytics that last anywhere between 15 minutes to an hour, and happen anywhere between 1 to 5 times a month.
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    Adobe
    Marketo provides different way and abilities to connect. If you are having product support or unexplained errors you can get someone on Marketo support 24 hours a day. One of Marketo's greatest assets in my opinion however would be the community. Often times our company is just looking for case success stories from someone else. In the community you can search for problems you are currently facing and see others having the same issue and solutions for those issues. If not, you can pose a question to the whole community and champions of the product and others can chime in to provide suggestions to fix your needs. The community is truly a 24/7 place to get your answers quickly.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    Again, no issues here. Performance within the day updates hourly. other reports are updated overnight and available to access by the next morning. Pages load quickly, the site navigates easily and the UX is quite straightforward to get command over. On this front, I give Adobe kudos for building a great experience to work within
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    Adobe
    There are times when it is slightly slow for us, where we sit on a screen waiting for it to load. This could be our internet since we have had the same issue occasionally with other systems, but it is enough to make you crazy.
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Support for Adobe Analytics is ok, it used to be worse years ago. Now, the technology team at Adobe is way more knowledgeable on the product itself as well as the implementation. They also study your custom implementation and have good knowledge of where your company stands. Dedicated support is something worth considering.
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    Adobe
    On multiple occasions we've had Marketo support (technical and license based) issues. Technical issues were minor and resolved within a day. License based issues (even things encouraged by Marketo for partners, like provisioning another license) took WEEKS. They actually took so long to respond that the client we were working with withdrew from the contract because they were no longer convinced Marketo was capable of supporting their business. As an agency trying to sell the software, you can only explain away so much before they just made us look silly.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    It was a one-day training several years ago that cost the organization several thousand dollars. There were only about 10 people in the training class. Adobe tried to cram so much information into that one-day class that none of our users felt like they really learned anything helpful from the experience. Follow-up training is too expensive
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    Adobe
    Our account rep stopped out in Lincoln, NE to ensure we were properly set up and running. This was very much appreciated. I was very, very new at this point, so I can't comment very much on the extent of what was taught because I was still brand new to the company and the system
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    The online training for Adobe SiteCatalyst consists of short product videos. These are ok, but only go so far. For a while Adobe charged a fee for this, but recently made these available for free. There are many great blog posts that help users learn how to apply the product as well.
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    Adobe
    I had never used Marketo prior to taking this job so online training was my starting point. I was able to follow along, it was interesting and quickly and efficiently taught me what I needed to know without a lot of fluff. It was far from boring and really helped me get my hands dirty with Marketo.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    One of the benefits and obstacles to successfully using Adobe Analytics is a great / more accurate implementation, make sure your analytics group is intimate with the details of the implementation and that the requirements are driven by the business.
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    Adobe
    1. Have a content marketing plan to run in parallel with the marketing automation installation--you'll need a lot of content to make full use of Marketo's capabilities. 2. Work with sales (and ISRs) to define and document a workflow--build your Marketo installation around how you do business--not figure out how to apply your business to the tools 3. Spend time of data cleaning--both an initial project as well as a strategy for ongoing data management. We found some change manaement issues (no more appending ZZZ to the first name to identify contacts who have left the company, for example, or prohibiting the entry of "info@company.com" email addresses). 4. Find some champions in the sales and ISR teams. You'll have both fans and detractors--work with the fans to build some success stories
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    We evaluated and we currently use Mixpanel and we have Google Analytics on a couple of our properties. And honestly, once you get the hang of the Adobe Analytics workspace, the other products really don't stack up against it because the segmentation and the ability to create reports pretty rapidly are invaluable.
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    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is one of the best email sending platforms I have worked with, because there is so much you can do on a lead scoring area and also then connect this to other platforms such as Salesforce. It allows for seamless reporting and working alongside sales colleagues. We chose Adobe Marketo Engage because it allows for more sophisticated audience segmentation and management of ongoing large scale nurture flows across a number of complex criteria.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    Adobe Analytics is relatively affordable compared to other tools, given it provides a range of flexible variables to use that I have not found in any other tools so far. It is worth investing in if your company is medium or large-sized and brings a steady flow of revenue. For small companies, it can be overpriced.
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    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    My organization uses Adobe Analytics across a multitude of brand portfolios. Each brand has multiple websites, mobile apps and some even have connected TV apps/channels on Roku and similar devices. Adobe can handle the multitude of properties that have simple, small(ish) websites and the larger brand properties that include web, mobile and connected TVs/OTT devices.
    Each of those larger brands has multiple categories and channels to keep track of. We can see the data by channel/device or aggregate all the data together. This gives our executive teams the full picture and the departmental teams the view they need to see their own performance.
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    Adobe
    We look at scaleability in a few different ways. First, the speed while using Marketo has remained relatively the same as our database has grown. Though I would say Marketo is slow at times, it has not gotten slower over the last few years. If anything, it has improved, and they are working to improve it. Second, the amount of programs we have developed in Marketo has exponentially grown as well. Marketo has allowed us to drastically increase our output without having to drastically increase our headcount.
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    Professional Services
    Adobe
    The professional services team is one of the best teams for complex adobe analytics implementations, especially for clients having multiple website and mobile applications. However, the cost of professional services is a bit high which makes few clients opt out of it, but for large scale implementations they are very helpful
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • I'd say business results. We tend to see better media and marketing engagement as a result of using Adobe Analytics, and that's largely because we can measure the effectiveness of campaigns and we can figure out which ones are driving better engagement, whether it's top of funnel or bottom of funnel. That's probably the biggest business result we see. It's obviously we even use it for other non-traditional use cases like AB testing to figure out which experience is a better or not, that type of thing.
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    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage automation capabilities have reduced the amount of manual work required to execute campaigns, allowing our marketing team to focus more on strategy and customer engagement rather than repetitive administrative tasks.
    • The platform has helped us generate more qualified leads through personalized campaigns and lead scoring, enabling our sales team to focus on prospects with the highest likelihood of converting.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Analytics Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Alert Builder in Adobe Analytics.Screenshot of an Analysis Workspace Training Tutorial in Adobe AnalyticsScreenshot of attribution in Adobe AnalyticsScreenshot of the Segment Builder in Adobe AnalyticsScreenshot of anomaly detection in Adobe AnalyticsScreenshot of the Alert Builder in Adobe Analytics

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Contact Timeline in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Audience Feature in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Progressive Profiling in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Insights Dashboard in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Sources in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Metrics in Adobe Marketo Engage