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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Audience Manager

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Audience Manager is a data management platform (DMP) that is integrated into the Adobe Marketing Cloud.N/A

    Airship

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Airship Experience Platform provides an end-to-end solution for unifying experiences across channels and capturing value across the entire customer lifecycle.N/A

    Braze

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and brands. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Audience ManagerAirshipBraze
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
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    Easy user interface and seamless integration. Great Customer engagement
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    Braze
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Adobe Audience ManagerAirshipBraze
    Data Collection
    Comparison of Data Collection features of Adobe Audience Manager and Airship and Braze
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    8.6
    16 Ratings
    5% above category average
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    Collection of first-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collection of third-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access to Third-party Data Providers9.616 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Classification
    Comparison of Data Classification features of Adobe Audience Manager and Airship and Braze
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    7.3
    16 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Airship
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    Braze
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    Audience taxonomy7.916 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management6.215 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Analysis Dashboard7.816 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Adobe Audience Manager and Airship and Braze
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    8.9
    16 Ratings
    11% above category average
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    Data Transfer8.916 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    DSP integration8.815 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    DMP Analytics
    Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Adobe Audience Manager and Airship and Braze
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    6.8
    16 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Airship
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    Braze
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    Campaign Analytics5.516 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Analytics8.116 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    EZ Texting
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Simplify360
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lotame
    Score8.8 out of 10
    EZ Texting
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Customer.io
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Audience ManagerAirshipBraze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (16 ratings)
    8.9
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    8.9
    (162 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.1
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    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (129 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
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    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Audience ManagerAirshipBraze
    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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    Well-Suited for: 1. Mobile App Notifications: Ideal for targeted push notifications in apps. 2. Customer Segmentation: Effective for personalized marketing campaigns based on user data. 3. Event-Triggered Automation: Great for automated messaging based on user actions. 4. A/B Testing: Useful for optimizing campaign messages and strategies. Less Appropriate for: 1. Non-Mobile Channels: Less effective if the primary focus is on non-mobile communications like email or direct mail. 2. Basic Email Marketing: Other platforms might be better suited for simple, broad email campaigns without complex segmentation or personalization needs.
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    Braze
    If you're looking for a reliable, automated system to run customer feedback programme like the NPS, Braze offers possibly the best platform to operate such kind of a campaign. In addition, if you are looking to build email campaigns for existing clients with the goal of retention or relationship-building, Braze offers much better email delivery and engagement rates.
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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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    • The marketing push notifications are very effective, and it gives us free hand to define different business criteria to target user groups
    • The user experience or the message content could differ from Android and iOS, and this is a huge benefit for us
    • As an Architect, troubleshooting an issue is very detailed and the time it takes to troubleshoot an issue is considerably less from our previous product
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    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    • The automated A/B testing winner selection and application should be added
    • The flexibility of message shape, specifically incorporating transparency so messages do not need to be a rectangular shape
    • Faster and more reliable servers around the globe
    • Making more detailed use cases and tutorials to be followed can simplify things for users
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    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
    Incentivized
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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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    The interface takes a bit getting used to in order to know how to take advantage of everything. Some of the analytics that are available are particularly hard to find, so it's important to pay attention when customer support reviews everything, but everything I'd want and need in terms of Push and In-App messaging is all there.
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    Braze
    From my experience thus far, Braze is able to deeply integrate into a variety of tools and I haven't found a use case where Braze cannot offer a solution to an integration requirement. Integrations have been very easy to setup and developers have been able to manage and upgrade these seamlessly.
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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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    I have not had to interact much with customer support as I have been able to find the vast majority of the answers I'm looking for within their documentation, which I very much appreciate because it saves me a lot of time. Customer support has been responsive and helpful for the most part during the couple of interactions I've had.
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    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    It's really well explained, there are lots of documentation about all topics. When we want to perform in a specific area, there are always a dedicated path. For each new feature, there is always some videos explaining the purpose and the new functionalities. Also I used to do the certification which allows me to show my achievements in my business environment.
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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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    We've tested a bunch of different CRM tools over the years and Airship has been a winner for its functionality, features, cost, and ability to integrate with other softwares that we use. It has been great for SMS and mobile in particular. It could certainly be a one stop shop for CRM.
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    Braze
    Braze is a cross-channel and data-driven tool. It is much more intuitive and easier to use. It supports a high volume of sending. Braze team provides excellent follow-up and support, and we are part of a large community of clients who share knowledge and help.
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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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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    • The ROI has increased more than approx. 50% (exact details to be confirmed) based on cross-channel orchestration
    • Using push notifications alone, we have seen a huge increase in app engagement which was a challenge before to nudge users to get back to the App after initial download
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    Braze
    • We saved a couple of million by switching from Salesforce to Braze.
    • We increased our engagement for a limited-time promo by 33% by simply running a 4-variant subject line test.
    • We managed to reduce our unsubscribe volume by 18% by excluding dormant users.
    Incentivized
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