Adobe Audience Manager vs. Adobe Experience Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Audience Manager
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Audience Manager is a data management platform (DMP) that is integrated into the Adobe Marketing Cloud.N/A
Adobe Experience Platform
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
The Adobe Experience Platform is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) serving as the foundation of the Adobe Experience Cloud, and is provided as a customer experience management platform with real-time customer profiles, continuous intelligence, and an open and extensible architecture that enables delivering personalized experiences at scale.N/A
Pricing
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform
Features
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform
Data Collection
Comparison of Data Collection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.6
16 Ratings
5% above category average
Adobe Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Collection of first-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Collection of third-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Access to Third-party Data Providers9.616 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Classification
Comparison of Data Classification features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
7.3
16 Ratings
12% below category average
Adobe Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Audience taxonomy7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management6.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Analysis Dashboard7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.9
16 Ratings
11% above category average
Adobe Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Data Transfer8.916 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
DMP Analytics
Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
6.8
16 Ratings
14% below category average
Adobe Experience Platform
-
Ratings
Campaign Analytics5.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Analytics8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
-
Ratings
Adobe Experience Platform
7.0
2 Ratings
11% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(16 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(10 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(10 ratings)
3.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
If you are already using multiple other pieces of the Adobe Experience Cloud stack, adobe audience manager is an easy choice. It allows for quick and easy data activation for your first and potentially brokered 2nd party data. However this product will likely be absorbed into the adobe experience platform (AEP) soon. In the end I would wait to see where adobe is truly headed with this product before investing heavily without additional heavy adobe investments.
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Adobe
The Adobe Experience Platform is well suited for companies that are maturing or have matured in their digital offerings and are looking for very sophisticated tools to elevate to the next level. It's also for well resourced teams, both financially and head count to take advantage of the deep functionality and integrations.
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Pros
Adobe
  • We are able to generate reports that provide valuable insights into potential customer behavior, allowing us to better focus our marketing efforts.
  • By allowing us to understand who are key audiences are and how they overlap with other brands and products, AAM allows us to get a fuller picture of how we should target our audience.
  • Reporting in AAM is wonderful in that it is easy to understand and exportable. The use of graphics and updates make it easier to share insights with various team members--even those with minimum experience in marketing and analytics.
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Adobe
  • Host online/offline data with common IDs
  • Ease of profile activation to destinations
  • Flexibility around how many sources and destinations can be used to move data
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Cons
Adobe
  • Biggest challenge we faced is teaching the use of it to our employees how to use it. The UI Should be easy and to understand for all fields.
  • The AdWords integration is not easy to do.
  • UI is sometimes slow and doesn't load Analyticals for more than 24 hours.
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Adobe
  • the slowness of the website sometimes
  • the structure
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Adobe
It is useful when executed properly
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Usability
Adobe
Overall usability is great, as are most of Adobe's software. Maybe a UI refresh could make it a bit easier to do advanced functions or reporting but, overall, it works very well. This is something you take for granted with Adobe solutions because when you try another vendor you realize how bad it can be.
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Adobe
Overall I really like the Adobe Experience Cloud after a couple years of figuring out various tools. They are extremely powerful. The time commitment to learn them is high since it's not a tool you can easily begin using without much training.
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Support Rating
Adobe
AAM has good support, but the support is not as available, due to waiting time and queue. The instructions presented are available, but it navigation is not easy between pages. However, instructions are usually direct and straightforward, but any underlying thoughts or questions won’t be easily answered without support from their service.
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Adobe
Adobe has support at all levels and for each product but beyond tool questions you'll often be told they can help but it requires some paid consulting hours. So you either hire Adobe consultants or find 3rd part consultants who know their products well.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
I personally like the Adobe Audience Manager interface and it's easier to use for beginners. It also has some features that Google does not, nor do its other competitors. It is worth the money and time spent, overall. I feel like it gives a bigger and more in-depth picture to our company's audience than other programs.
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Adobe
We are more integrated with other Adobe products and so it was an easy decision
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Overall a Positive Return for Business who go All in on the Adobe Stack
  • Solid work for brokering and anonymously sharing data between first and second parties
  • The death of TRUE 3rd party data has lessened the effectiveness of all DMPs
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Adobe
  • More leads from profile activations and lookalike audiences
  • Better understanding of our data with CJA
  • Better journey orchestration using AJO
  • Higher conversions and sales due to better understanding of customer pain points
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