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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Experience Manager

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering marketing content.N/A

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Marketo Engage
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Marketo Engage
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Marketo Engage
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    We chose Adobe Experience Manager over these platforms for security and Time to market. It was difficult to manage multi-site in other CMS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    In terms of usability for building sites, Adobe Experience Manager is probably the most difficult, least intuitive tool I've used. However, it does allow for easier multi-site management vs other platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    Ease to use, Component development is easier if you have Java knowledge
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    Adobe Experience Manager is more secure and robust so we moved to it but its more complex and costly as well, need lot of resources
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    AEM is the leader in this segment due to easy of use and flexibility of the platform with lots of OOTB features
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    Adobe Experience Manager is an enterprise digital marketing platform that has an edge over other CMS platforms in multiple ways 1. Easy content authoring 2. Pre-defined authoring and publishing workflows 3. In-built multi-site authoring 4. Support for multi-lingual websites.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    Flawless management of digital assets and content supporting personalized content delivery. Seamless navigation and user experience on AEM platform WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor makes AEM stands out from the crowd which is not available in the Drupal Headless …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    We started with Wordpress and Hubspot and we outgrew both very quickly. Our landing pages transition from Hubspot into Marketo, but AEM's uptime was much better at the time and we moved everything to AEM. For what we wanted to do, there wasn't much out there that really could …
    Incentivized
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Not even clise Marketo is such a better tool. Forms alone. In Marketo you could set one form with an ID and market could use the referring URL as attribution SFMC forces us to remake each and every form for proper attribution. As simple changes need to roll out the level of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud can't touch the features of Marketo with a 10 foot pole. Marketo is a full feature MAP while SFDC MC (Pardot) requires you to purchase the entire SDFDC tech stack to start to get comparable features. Marketo natively integrates with the Adobe martec …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    180 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    283 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    145 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    239 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    184 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    291 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    113 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    189 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Marketo Engage
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.4
    38 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.438 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.0
    33 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1026 Ratings
    1% above category average
    API7.829 Ratings7.9890 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.4759 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.5908 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings8.4883 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.4316 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings6.5210 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.348 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.5
    38 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.433 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.734 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.637 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.835 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.629 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.3
    37 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.731 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.236 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1074 Ratings
    1% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.8976 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings7.3955 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.0927 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings7.2995 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.8979 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.9939 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.61037 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.51032 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.5931 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.2
    1036 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.51009 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.4985 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings7.5983 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.8930 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.9
    962 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings6.1785 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.6918 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    614 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings6.4606 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings7.2375 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.5
    1036 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.2978 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.81018 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.4962 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Marketo Engage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (220 ratings)
    8.7
    (1244 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    4.5
    (147 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (181 ratings)
    5.0
    (99 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    8.6
    (92 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Marketo Engage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    I'll answer the second one because I mean, the first one I don't have an issue with. The second scenario is we oftentimes have the need to spin off very small campaign style sites or sites that generate leads but are unbranded and that sort of thing. So that's hard to do in AEM because you have to then create another organization within AEM to do that. And we're talking about sites that are maybe five to 10 pages in size. So we've been investigating Edge, but then that's a different workflow, so we'd have to train people on that. So it would be nice if there was something within the AEM structure that could allow you to do something very similar to Edge, where you make some small micro sites that are not necessarily branded, that you could still host within the platform and not have to retrain everybody on a completely different platform.
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    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is an excellent tool for hosting registration forms and sending out tokenized emails based on a particular person's information within your database. For example, if someone attends an event or webinar and indicates that they'd like to learn more about your product, then Adobe Marketo Engage can easily trigger a specific email template to that person that will be personalized with tokens about them. The pixel tracking that can be applied to any web page is also very helpful. If you want to focus on a more 1:1 type of follow up with a Lead, then the automated emails are not going to be as useful.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • It allows us to scale so that we can make a change on a global footer. And it applies to all of the different property websites. It allows us to set up components and compartmentalize things in a way. The big thing is that it's scalable. And then it also ties into Adobe Analytics and other Adobe products. So we are a complete Adobe shop. Every Adobe product that we can use, we use. I don't think we do it for marketing so much, but for doing target testing and analytics, data scientists are using the same product and so it all speaks.
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    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage excels at automating complex marketing workflows and delivering personalized customer experiences at scale.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage enables marketers to create targeted campaigns, schedule automated email sequences, and personalize content based on user demographics and interactions, resulting in more relevant customer engagement.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage provides robust analytics and reporting, allowing teams to track campaign performance, monitor conversion rates, and measure return on investment(ROI).
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • There are some glitches in permissions inheritance that require us to toggle a save on permissions in groups that inherit from a group that was recently updated.
    • Large packages require stopping the workflow launcher OSGi components or many workflows will slow down the server.
    • Locked pages are hard to find unless I use /siteadmin... I often hear that the CQ tools will go away, but if we lose that, some small things might be harder to do, like finding locked pages.
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    Adobe
    • The most important thing is the UI; it still looks very old and should be updated to meet current market design standards.
    • Admin Complexity: It should be easy to setup at the first go.
    • Tool Navigation: Navigation should be more easier.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We had and still have a fantastic experience using Adobe CQ. Lots of flexibility, great integration with other Adobe products we already use and a powerful technology make it a great fit for our corporate environment. Also as the community grows, it makes it easier to network with other developers and users to get new ideas on how to continue to get the best out of the software.
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    Adobe
    We're likely to renew for several reasons:
    • Now that it's been implemented, I can't imagine not having marketing automation and the easy interface that Marketo provides to run our campaigns
    • Marketo's community and customer service is fantastic; I know that when I need help, I'll get it
    • Marketo continues to improve the product, so I know that I can expect it to be even more useful in the future
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Adobe Experience Manager overall is fairly easy to use and caters to a wide range of users when it comes to their technical abilities. It has the flexibility to enable UI/UX designers to pop in and easily design new content with drop in components. It also has sufficient capabilities for those who are more technically inclined and want to dig more into custom code or solutions
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    Adobe
    In some aspects, the tool can feel quite clunky in parts. But with the rich feature set it has, it's understandable. There is a lot of room for improvement for the user interface. The system itself doesn't have a slick or modern feel, so the usability could feel nicer to use with these areas considered.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Being part of Adobe Suite means you are already notified when the tool has any outages. However, I have never faced unplanned outages. Whenever you face any issue with the site, it is clearly stated if there were any planned outages and how quickly you will be back to normal. So, I will say that even the outages are planned and managed in a great way like their other services.
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    Adobe
    Marketo provides different way and abilities to connect. If you are having product support or unexplained errors you can get someone on Marketo support 24 hours a day. One of Marketo's greatest assets in my opinion however would be the community. Often times our company is just looking for case success stories from someone else. In the community you can search for problems you are currently facing and see others having the same issue and solutions for those issues. If not, you can pose a question to the whole community and champions of the product and others can chime in to provide suggestions to fix your needs. The community is truly a 24/7 place to get your answers quickly.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    With respect to performance, Adobe experience manager is one of the best in the CMS space. We didn't observe frequent slowness on platform, however the systems which are accessing experience manager should be of good specifications without which slowness would be observed. Adobe experience manager works well in integration with other solutions, unless the destination application is designed to trigger frequent calls to AEM.
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    Adobe
    There are times when it is slightly slow for us, where we sit on a screen waiting for it to load. This could be our internet since we have had the same issue occasionally with other systems, but it is enough to make you crazy.
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Adobe Experience Manager, in all its capacity, is a great alternative to any other CMS you are using. It helps in rapid development and makes life easier for maintaining the website for multi-language sites. Technical know-how is eliminated at content authoring. Better documentation in terms of live examples with videos would be appreciated.
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    Adobe
    On multiple occasions we've had Marketo support (technical and license based) issues. Technical issues were minor and resolved within a day. License based issues (even things encouraged by Marketo for partners, like provisioning another license) took WEEKS. They actually took so long to respond that the client we were working with withdrew from the contract because they were no longer convinced Marketo was capable of supporting their business. As an agency trying to sell the software, you can only explain away so much before they just made us look silly.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    Our account rep stopped out in Lincoln, NE to ensure we were properly set up and running. This was very much appreciated. I was very, very new at this point, so I can't comment very much on the extent of what was taught because I was still brand new to the company and the system
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    I had never used Marketo prior to taking this job so online training was my starting point. I was able to follow along, it was interesting and quickly and efficiently taught me what I needed to know without a lot of fluff. It was far from boring and really helped me get my hands dirty with Marketo.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Depending on your individual needs, It is really quite simple to create an authoring experience for a website that looks really good. I have been part of many implementations and many teams and have seen many projects that were super successful and others that were not implemented well. AEM has room for a lot of flexibility in the implementation process compared to other CMS like SharePoint
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    Adobe
    1. Have a content marketing plan to run in parallel with the marketing automation installation--you'll need a lot of content to make full use of Marketo's capabilities. 2. Work with sales (and ISRs) to define and document a workflow--build your Marketo installation around how you do business--not figure out how to apply your business to the tools 3. Spend time of data cleaning--both an initial project as well as a strategy for ongoing data management. We found some change manaement issues (no more appending ZZZ to the first name to identify contacts who have left the company, for example, or prohibiting the entry of "info@company.com" email addresses). 4. Find some champions in the sales and ISR teams. You'll have both fans and detractors--work with the fans to build some success stories
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    SSO is one fits all, so we don't have to have a separate SSO for each application of Adobe The integration with Analytics works perfectly and bring directly value really quickly Target remains more complicated to set up, but can also bring a lot of value once integrated with the rest of the Adobe platform The fact that the solution is Cloud services is also a big advantage for maintenance
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    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is one of the best email sending platforms I have worked with, because there is so much you can do on a lead scoring area and also then connect this to other platforms such as Salesforce. It allows for seamless reporting and working alongside sales colleagues. We chose Adobe Marketo Engage because it allows for more sophisticated audience segmentation and management of ongoing large scale nurture flows across a number of complex criteria.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    Instead of being directly involved in the tool purchase, I am involved in analysis or what we can use to maximize the tool. Small organizations may find it expensive. However, if the team or organization focuses more on your ROI or the features you will get, then it will definitely be worth it. Pricing is based on a number of factors, including team size or the use of the tool. The user can select the pricing option that best fits their needs based on the number of form submissions they make or the number of pages they wish to publish on their global/multisite sites.
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    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    We look at scaleability in a few different ways. First, the speed while using Marketo has remained relatively the same as our database has grown. Though I would say Marketo is slow at times, it has not gotten slower over the last few years. If anything, it has improved, and they are working to improve it. Second, the amount of programs we have developed in Marketo has exponentially grown as well. Marketo has allowed us to drastically increase our output without having to drastically increase our headcount.
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    Professional Services
    Adobe
    The professional services team within adobe is one of the best in terms of technical and solutioning knowledge. However, considering the billing charges of adobe professional services team, it is always recommended to involve them during platform initial setup or when a complex solution is to be built with platform customizations.
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • too soon to tell on increased conversion rates based on external marketing factors in play but having increased visibility into customer engagement trends will most likely lead to improvement of our conversion rates.
    • There have been productivity gains from the perspective of actually migrating all of our externally managed sites to the same in-house Adobe Experience Manager platform and then being able to utilize those universal components.
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    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage automation capabilities have reduced the amount of manual work required to execute campaigns, allowing our marketing team to focus more on strategy and customer engagement rather than repetitive administrative tasks.
    • The platform has helped us generate more qualified leads through personalized campaigns and lead scoring, enabling our sales team to focus on prospects with the highest likelihood of converting.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Experience Manager Screenshots

    Screenshot of AEM Forms - Creates an adaptive formScreenshot of AEM Forms - themes libraryScreenshot of AEM Forms - where to create a templateScreenshot of AEM Forms - the interactive communications editorScreenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - document-based authoring enables marketers to create and publish content with familiar tools.Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - Universal Editor, an advanced visual editor, empowers marketers to edit and publish content.

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Contact Timeline in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Audience Feature in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Progressive Profiling in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Insights Dashboard in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Sources in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Metrics in Adobe Marketo Engage