Adobe Analytics vs. Tealium Customer Data Hub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Analytics
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Adobe 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
Tealium Customer Data Hub
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The Tealium Customer Data Hub powers capabilities across the data supply chain. Tealium universally collects customer data from any source including; websites, mobile applications, devices, kiosks, servers, and files. Data collected is then standardized in the data layer, which drives usage of data for customer engagement and analysis.N/A
Pricing
Adobe AnalyticsTealium Customer Data Hub
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe AnalyticsTealium Customer Data Hub
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe AnalyticsTealium Customer Data Hub
Considered Both Products
Adobe Analytics
Chose Adobe Analytics
I think Adobe's been around longer as a product but Tealium, from when I did research, it has auto-tagging. So one of my biggest pet peeves is when I'm rolling out new features, and whether it's an app or a website, is that I have to go speak with our metrics team or tagging …
Chose Adobe Analytics
When it comes to reporting on a website, Adobe Analytics is by far the most superior tool in my opinion. It is also very good when you have several platforms like web, mweb and app. Then you can see the customer data across all platforms in one tool.

But if it's just an app you …
Chose Adobe Analytics
Adobe and Google are the market leaders and way ahead in market share as compared to other providers in the market. Between Adobe and Google, there are few nuances that differentiate at the feature level. If an organization is using other products of Adobe experience cloud, …
Chose Adobe Analytics
Adobe has good journey monitoring and is easy to connect to marketing automation, has a strong API and good visualization.
Tealium Customer Data Hub
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium Customer Data Hub is the clear leader in real-time capabilities, its platform agnostic approach means that it works well with everybody and doesn't require necessary features to be built or still be on the roadmap, or require custom workarounds to function.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Privacy features that Tealium Customer Data Hub offers that Adobe was lacking.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium has a more robust visitor profile than Target has, and we can pass in Tealium data into Target as opposed to the other way around.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium Customer Data Hub is superior as it’s not a science project.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
We were not happy with Ensighten support model and they lacked timely updates.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium offers integrations between our various tech stack vendors without having to go "all-in" with one specific SaaS company.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium is better than Google Tag Manager from every angle:
  • Tealium offers world class support while GTM has no support.
  • Tealium offers the ability to fully customize the data being collected and sent to tags.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Superior and knowledgeable
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
The Tealium CDP brings flexibility for configuration and customization that is not easily matched. Along with this comes the need for spending time for designing carefully the CDP attributes before deploying. So having a first version can take some time but pays off with …
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium Customer Data Hub can use 1P IDs and that is the main reason we selected it. with hindsight it was a good choice in this respect Tealium Customer Data Hub can process and forward event data via api, which AAM cannot AAM connectors can be set up with a few clicks …
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Tealium Customer Data Hub was able to meet our needs at a price point which was on par with our incumbent software.
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Neither Adobe Tag Manager nor UberTags had what we considered to be an enterprise worthy platform at the time we evaluated them. Although I believe that's changed for both Adobe and UberTags, Tealium is highly focused on TM as well as being forward-looking regarding data …
Chose Tealium Customer Data Hub
Google tag manager. Tealium offers a much more user friendly interface, as well as capabilities.
Features
Adobe AnalyticsTealium Customer Data Hub
Web Analytics
Comparison of Web Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Analytics
7.9
99 Ratings
2% below category average
Tealium Customer Data Hub
-
Ratings
Lead Conversion Tracking7.590 Ratings00 Ratings
Bounce Rate Measurement7.796 Ratings00 Ratings
Device and Browser Reporting8.497 Ratings00 Ratings
Pageview Tracking8.695 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Tracking8.495 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting in real-time6.993 Ratings00 Ratings
Referral Source Tracking8.093 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Dashboards8.294 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Analytics
-
Ratings
Tealium Customer Data Hub
8.2
12 Ratings
0% below category average
Tag library00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Tag variable mapping00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings9.112 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings4.311 Ratings
Page load times00 Ratings8.911 Ratings
Mobile app tagging00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings9.911 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe AnalyticsTealium Customer Data Hub
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(280 ratings)
8.2
(130 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(139 ratings)
9.2
(20 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(132 ratings)
9.0
(12 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(12 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(11 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(42 ratings)
8.1
(83 ratings)
In-Person Training
1.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.0
(11 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.3
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
7.9
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe AnalyticsTealium Customer Data Hub
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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Tealium
Well suited: Any company that has a variety of data interspersed across multiple systems and is trying to get a more unified understanding of their customer profile—that enriched customer view of having all these disparate data sources and wanting to bring them together in a relatively seamless manner, and then having that more nuanced understanding of the entirety of the customer and being able to action off of it. Which again, I feel like is a core marketing use case.
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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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Tealium
  • Activation in real time - it's really good and you can literally see the information being activated in all other technologies that my clients use, like TikTok, Facebook, Google, et cetera. At the time that a client arrives on your website, you have instant data to enrich the profiles and activate on this channel. So this is really good and it's something that Tealium give us the control in order to do that.
  • The other thing is that you have the power to choose what data you want to collect and what data you do not want to collect. Tealium is particularly very good on doing that.
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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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Tealium
  • Audiences—don't they technically exist in Tealium? They are just streamed—no count, no backfill, etc.
  • Working backward to identify issues involves lots of clicking in the UI, going from audience to audience attribute, badge to event attribute, and so on.
  • You have to wait for a Real-Time event to see the payload. There is no sample or other option.
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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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Tealium
I already know that my company has no plans to discontinue use of Tealium. We are heavily reliant on it due to a huge number of product teams and developers we would have to work with to place tags across many pages. Tealium is already there on the pages, and our application/product teams are familiar with how to integrate it. It is just the simplest way to ensure that new data requirements are implemented in a timely manner.
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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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Tealium
Once you understand how it works and how to implement things, it is a dream and very user friendly. There is the initial learning curve but there are oceans of helpers available to you to help you bridge that initial gap and get going. Take the time to learn it up front and you will never have any problems. And support is great and available to answer questions
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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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Tealium
It's been flawless as far as I am concerned.
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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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Tealium
Sometimes publishing can take longer than expected
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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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Tealium
The support team often is so quick to respond and so helpful when it comes to working with the needs of my clients and being able to resolve potential shortcomings or technical issues or surrounding the tool. There have been times more recently that I’ve gotten more generic service rather than the tailored experience that I have come to expect.
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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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Tealium
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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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Tealium
Did what we needed to onboard us onto the platform
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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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Tealium
Implementation had some bumps in the road and it was new for all of us, but for the most part, it was easier than many other implementations we've done with other technologies.
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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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Tealium
Tealium Customer Data Hub can do it all in one. Whereas, I think by using multiple Tealium Customer Data Hubs, we can utilize what each tool is really good at. In an ideal world, we'd like to use Tealium Customer Data Hub for everything, but one thing that we struggle with is Audience Segmentation, and we are looking for a one touch solution, without a lot of the work since the data is already there.
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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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Tealium
Like anything it could be cheaper but we still feel we get value from it.
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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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Tealium
Never had an issue, scales as we use it.
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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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Tealium
Very easy to work with and relatively cost effective
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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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Tealium
  • There has been a near immeasurable return on customer data and improvement of our quality for our physical products due to be in tune with the customer. This has changed our way of doing things for the better to gain a better flow and overall workplace experience.
  • A negative is that Tealium AudienceStream becomes harder to manuever and use data analytics for when a database has been existing for a fairly large amount of time. It goes from an agile ship to a huge vessel that takes many components to be able to move.
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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

Tealium Customer Data Hub Screenshots

Screenshot of Data Supply ChainScreenshot of Data LayerScreenshot of Connector MarketplaceScreenshot of Live Event TrackingScreenshot of AudienceStream Dashboard