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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Journey Optimizer

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Journey Optimizer is a customer engagement solution, enabling brands to orchestrate and deliver personalized customer engagement across all channels — including email, web, app, mobile, and more — in the moments that matter to customers.N/A

    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Bronto Marketing Platform was an email marketing solution from Oracle which was acquired from NetSuite in 2016. It was optimized for creating automated, yet personalized emails, and subscriber profile segments, analyzing click and visit behavior, and tracking geolocation. It has since been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Journey OptimizerBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsRequest pricing at info@bronto.com.
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    43 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    68%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
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    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Journey Optimizer and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    -
    Ratings
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.050 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings6.450 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.449 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings4.525 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings9.055 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.850 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.458 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings7.456 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.448 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Journey Optimizer and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    -
    Ratings
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.857 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.856 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.143 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Journey OptimizerBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    8.1
    (60 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (49 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Journey Optimizer is really good for tracking journeys. It can tell you exactly where users are clicking, which pages they are visiting, and even link to physical location visits. It’s not well-suited for open-ended journeys where the user can take multiple paths to success. In such scenarios, it does not visualize or track the journey very well.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    If you're a mid-size to larger business and rely on regular email engagement from customers, then Bronto Marketing Platform could be a potentially great partner if not game-changer for how you've been doing email campaign management previously. Their automation tools and development interface is amicable. The amount of data that's collected and available from engagement with subscribers through their tools can be overwhelming. Still, if you enjoy digging into every kernel of possible user activity information, you'll love it.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • API based response and ability to invoke the results need via API.
    • Business friendly management of offer priority , the rule assignments.
    • Data Collection from interactions and ability to utilize them without much latency.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • It's easy to work with – it has seamless integration across all platforms, which helps when you're working with big clientele.
    • It's logically organized, which can't be said of all ESP's.
    • It has the LIVE CHAT support. A lot of email marketing clients simply don't have that. It's the little things!
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • The email building experience could be better when integrating AEM content fragments.
    • Not great at organizing content in each area. Could make better use of metadata to limit the content the end user has to wade through.
    • Content life cycle management could be more robust.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • Segmenting- although there's a lot that can be done with segmenting audiences, there's a bit of a learning curve when it comes to setting up segments. Wish it was more intuitive.
    • Workflows- setting up automation workflows requires some practice and I've needed to consult a Bronto support person each time I set up a new workflow.
    • Bronto Pop-up manager- we use this feature, not sure how common it is among Bronto clients, but there is overall some improvement needed with this tool. There is limited capability to update the look and feel of the pop-up manager, and we've run into some conflicts with other pop-ups on our website interfering with the Bronto pop-up.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    It has been working very well, and actually it is a reliable tool for audience segmentation and everything that needs to be done for a campaign to deploy correctly
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Never really had any issues that caused out-of-the-ordinary frustration levels. Of course, you'll have days where the learning curve of using a tool gets challenging. Still, I don't remember ever really coming across an obstacle or roadblock while using the tool because of a feature or function it just couldn't do successfully or at all. Customer support was always available as needed, and it was generally easy to find answers to questions when they arose.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    AJO certainly requires a firm understanding of how Adobe expects data to be architected. AJO should not be an organizations first experience with an Adobe product. We benefited from ~18 months of experience with RTCDP prior to bringing on AJO. Engageable profiles, data storage, profile usage limits, all factor in when using an omnichannel solution. Marketers must be careful to bring in only the data required for business use cases, and continually evaluate these needs in the face of a changing marketing ecosystem.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Usability is great. Very intuitive drag-and-drip metaphor for building automations. And the UI is very user-centric. It constantly prompts you with suggestions and next steps such that you hardly have to refer to the (excellent) documentation.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    I do not rate it perfect because there are times that is not perfectly realiable, and it stops working when you need it the most, especially because the audiences take so long to evaluate and 2 times a dat to do them quickly is really not enough
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    I never experienced any downtime.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    I really think this is something that can be improved, especially the querrys, sometimes it takes too long for them to run
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No issues.
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Sometimes when the manager connects to a support representative, even though the response is very immediate, they are not always able to provide a solution and we end up resolving the issue other ways
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    They used to be good, but they've evolved into a monolithic bureaucratic nightmare after the Netsuite / Oracle acquisition. Can't talk to anyone that actually knows the system and support tickets seem to go days or weeks without responses and resolution.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    It didnpt possess anything new from the online version of it, in fact, there were less
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Adobe
    I give it this rating of 5 because the truth is I started the training with the pages in Adobe and is far more complete and has more explanations that the online training and you can revisit it as many times as you want to, the online non live version is better
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    They have lots of videos on list importing / segmentation / report customization etc. when you sign on they give a link to online tutorials and documentation which is very helpful. They have very helpful PDFs on how to import / set up platform
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    The only thing I wanted to mention is that when going into the email edition, when adding labels, I was able to copy and paste the labels before, and now it has changed and I am no longer able to do it without editing the label itself
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Easy to set up.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Adobe Journey Optimizer takes the lead because it integrates the functionality of several disparate systems, such as Adobe Marketo Engage (content creation/campaign operations) and Adobe Analytics (data, reporting, trends, predictions), to provide a comprehensive approach to campaign coordination and delivery, through reporting and informing our future campaign strategy. All of the products we use are valuable in different contexts. Adobe Journey Optimizer is a true silver bullet for delivering the most engaging, targeted marketing & communications campaigns!
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Bronto hits the sweet spot for us. It is most similar to the Salesforce family of products. Salesforce however can feel cluttered and configuration and setup can be time consuming and confusing. Bronto is much more streamlined and also has features built in that may require additional purchases in the Salesforce world. Adobe Campaign is a very powerful solution and can do many things hard to achieve in Bronto. However, Campaign is much more of a developer tool where Bronto is easy to learn and use right out of the box.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    I didnpt help purchase
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Adobe
    This is very functional, is has been great to work with pleople from different areas and being able to show them how adobe journey optimizer works for the team
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Adobe
    very professional
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Multichannel onboarding journey improving the engagement of freshmen in the business, resulting in a decrease in the dropout rate.
    • Separate business of anticipation of receivables from suppliers that used to be manual and now I have connected this entire operation via the S3 connector, less manual work and significant gains in conversions and payments
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • Offering great reporting for tracking everything. I can see what emails are working (I track on a monthly basis) and what people are clicking.
    • A/B split testing lets us try different things. Try this and that.
    • Creating lists and segments of subscribers lets us look at who is the best performing contacts. Really get 'into the data' and understand what is working and what is not.
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    ScreenShots

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