Adobe Experience Platform vs. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Experience Platform
Score 8.7 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
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is an integrated marketing management solution for marketing operation, planning, execution, and analytics across all channels—digital, social, and traditional. Capabilities include marketing resource management, multichannel campaign management, lead management, sales collaboration, social marketing, and marketing analytics. Microsoft acquired MarketingPilot, an SMB-focused marketing automation product, in 2012. MarketingPilot IMM (integrated marketing…
$1,200
per month
Pricing
Adobe Experience PlatformMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Experience PlatformMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Adobe Experience PlatformMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Experience Platform
7.0
2 Ratings
10% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Experience PlatformMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(2 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
5.9
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
3.0
(2 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Experience PlatformMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Microsoft
Having used both Salesforce and Microsoft Marketing, the integration is much tighter and the automation and workflow is much tighter using PowerAutomate. Reporting on tasks is better in Salesforce, but the ability to fully and quickly integrate into the Microsoft Azure stack is well worth the hassle of quickly generating reports.
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Pros
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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Microsoft
  • Builds dynamic audiences using real-time CRM and behavioral data without manual list maintenance.
  • Triggers communications based on actions such as purchase, visit date, or post-visit timing.
  • Manages high-volume transactional and lifecycle emails with consistent governance and compliance.
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Cons
Adobe
  • the slowness of the website sometimes
  • the structure
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Microsoft
  • Currently marketing is more contact centric, should add the flexibility of doing segmentation as well as customer journey on leads without associating with contact
  • Pricing is based on number of contact, even if you are not marketing all of them.
  • Cannot reuse the existing marketing lists created in CRM for marketing as seamlessly as in ClickDimensions, even though both uses the same Dataverse
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
It is useful when executed properly
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Microsoft
I wouldn't even think of renewing our use of Marketing 365. It's worthless
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Usability
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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Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is extremely usable in order to manage all of my organization's customer information across the organization. Further we use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing to manage all of our marketing campaigns from beginning to end. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing makes my organization more able to run a professional marketing strategy.
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Support Rating
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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Microsoft
Like all Microsoft corporation products, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing comes with the extremely high-quality customer support that Microsoft corporation has become well known for. Whether it is the availability of twenty-four/seven customer support or the highly-trained, very friendly customer support personnel, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing has the support you are looking for.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
We are more integrated with other Adobe products and so it was an easy decision
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Microsoft
While the cost was significantly more than other vendors we looked at, the tools are similar to our previous tool so conversion would be (somewhat) easy. We chose it because it directly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - which we integrated at the same time.
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Return on Investment
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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Microsoft
  • It took a few months to get things in order and I believe I could’ve gotten started sooner, but I had to learn about it first
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