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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

    BlueConic

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ABlueConic, the a pure-play customer data platform, designed to liberate companies’ first-party data from disparate systems and makes it accessible wherever and whenever it is required to transform customer relationships and drive business growth. The vendor states over 300 companies use BlueConic to unify data into persistent, individual-profiles, and then activate it across customer touchpoints and systems in support of a wide range of growth-focused initiatives, including customer…N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe AnalyticsBlueConic
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe AnalyticsBlueConic
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe AnalyticsBlueConic
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
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    BlueConic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    182 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    140 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    182 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    105 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    102 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Adobe AnalyticsBlueConic
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Adobe Analytics and BlueConic
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    8.0
    101 Ratings
    1% below category average
    BlueConic
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking7.592 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement7.798 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting8.499 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking8.697 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking8.397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time6.995 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking8.195 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards8.096 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Adobe Analytics and BlueConic
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    BlueConic
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Tag library00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Page load times00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Adobe Analytics and BlueConic
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    BlueConic
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Adobe Analytics and BlueConic
    Feature
    Adobe Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    BlueConic
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Account Scoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Data Connectors00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Data Enhancement00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Data Ingestion00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Data Storage00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Data Visibility00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Event Data00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Identity Resolution00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Twilio Segment
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lead Forensics
    Score9 out of 10
    Treasure AI
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Treasure AI
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe AnalyticsBlueConic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (282 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (141 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (134 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe AnalyticsBlueConic
    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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    BlueConic
    Where you are looking for agility and product placement - this is a great product. We were able to move $750k in product in a month due to the pure agility in offering more targetted discounts to users at the right moment. If you use the software correctly - this is like giving your core website experience steriods to offer users the right products at the right time. This shouldn't, however, replace comprehensive funnel testing. Think of it more like hyper offer-management service
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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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    BlueConic
    • BlueConic's technology and interface is second to none. They excel at taking potentially difficult tasks and making them easy for users to accomplish without having to stretch the platform's limits or reach out to customer support.
    • The way BlueConic integrates with websites almost seems like magic; by placing a single tag you're able to track almost everything and deploy website personalization.
    • BlueConic releases frequent updates to the platform, like new integrations to other platforms and different tools for tracking data.
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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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    BlueConic
    • They should have the ability to port data beyond O&O properties. This is likely more complex than I make it seem, but a deal w/ a DMP to be able to do so would likely solve the issue.
    • Could have some more "out of the box" APIs.
    • WOuld be great if they had in-house consultants that could come and help set-up best practices with your other existing partnerships (this would be a HUGE ask though; places like Salesforce charge thousands for such services).
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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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    BlueConic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    BlueConic
    I think without a bit of training and knowledge it would be hard to walk right into a role or a task inside of BlueConic - it is kind of hard to comprehend everything that is available and all of the options. The language inside of BlueConic is also very different than other things in the industry, so it was hard to understand what it would line up with.
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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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    BlueConic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    BlueConic
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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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    BlueConic
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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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    BlueConic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    BlueConic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    BlueConic
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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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    BlueConic
    BlueConic is more lightweight and allows for more unique experiences at the same time. Again - this isn't meant to perfect the core UX of your site, but sit on top to deliver unique experiences to control offer management and close rates.
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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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    BlueConic
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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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    BlueConic
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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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    BlueConic
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    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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    BlueConic
    • BlueConic has lead to a deeper understanding of how customers engage with our content
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    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