Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.
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Mailbutler
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Mailbutler is an email extension designed to help professionals and teams manage their emails better and improve customer relations.
Adobe Campaign stands out as a powerful solution for efficiently handling multi-channel marketing campaigns, allowing me to connect with my audience through various channels such as email, mobile, social media, and more. Its centralized platform serves as a command centre, empowering to effortlessly design, implement, and track campaigns across diverse channels, ensuring a consistent and precisely targeted messaging approach.
Mailbutler is well suited to people who predominantly use their Mac for email. It adds a rich feature set to macOS Mail's native features. Mailbutler is less useful to people who frequently process email on iOS/iPadOS. Only a limited subset of Mailbutler's functionality is available on iOS/iPadOS as Apple doesn't currently provide a way for third parties to extend the iOS/iPadOS Mail app.
If we already have a list of subscribers to whom we want to send private newsletters about certain updates in our products and services, it is very easy to import them into the platform through text document formats, or directly from cloud platforms that have allowed us to save their information
It integrates very well with platforms oriented to the development of help desk operations, as in the case of Zendesk, where we store all the information of the customers that communicate with us to improve their user experience through technical assistance, and to have a better feedback with them.
Adobe Campaign allows us to create our own forms that can be added to the company's page, so that depending on the type of potential customer that is accessing them, we can show personalized information that is of interest to them as customers, and thus ensure more business.
We have had problems with the usability of their platform. When we communicate with the integrated technical support via e-mail, it takes hours to respond.
On the other hand, the application does not allow us to multitask, your platform becomes very slow.
Also, it is a bit complicated to adapt to using the application completely.
Mailbutler occasionally conflicts with other macOS Mail plug-ins. Though, in most (if not all) cases the issue tends to be with other plugins.
The Mail app for iOS/iPadOS doesn't support plugins, making it necessary to use Mailbutler's own app to access a limited subset of the functionality on macOS/iPadOS.
Once you go for Neolane you are a bit stuck with it, so we will most likely stay with Neolane. Cost of investment and training are the main factors at work here. We havesimply have invested too much in the product to stop using it after 2 years. That said, my score of 8 does not imply that the product is worthy of getting an 8 but reflects our willingness to renew. Given that upgrading to a new version will cost again a substantial sum, we most likely will keep using the current version we are on which is 6X.
Thanks to this tool we are taking more internal control of the creation and deployment of campaigns with less dependency on an ESP. We can pre-program marketing publications, being able to concentrate on the target audience. It helps me manage email campaigns with real-time tracking.
Adobe Campaign has supported our marketing campaigns with 100% assurance of positive results. It has the capability to boost company growth within a short period of time as compared to other marketing tools. It has automated marketing campaigns and reached a large group of our targeted customers. The customer support team has been reliable and when we request support they respond quickly.
All these applications are very similar, adobe has a differential for the company's expertise, for the way cloud services and their specialists are treated. I believe that it also has a differential in the metrics and management of flows where it is possible to have a broader view of the entire process. The availability to be able to manage everything on several different channels is also an important point.
I'm not aware of any other products that provide the same functionality within the macOS Mail client. There are some third-party email apps for macOS and iOS/iPadOS that have some of Mailbutler's features, but my preference is to stay with Apple's Mail client, partially for security reasons.
The licensing terms after purchasing this platform are manageable. The set price is relatively low as compared to that of similar products and there is a guarantee in Returns on Investment after the agreed period of time. We are able to manage the billing frequency without any failure due to the stability and positive performance of this platform in marketing campaigns.
Saved the three business units we have of huge marketing automation platform costs for three years
Streamlined and centralised our marketing automation operations
The downside is that due to the varying nature of businesses and sales cycles of the three business units of the enterprise I worked for, it became hard to tweak one platform into 3 varying, different needs and so many different business models and scenarios.
