Adobe Journey Optimizer vs. Sendblaster

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Journey Optimizer
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Adobe 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
Sendblaster
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
SendBlaster is the eponymous lean, list management / newsletter-centric email marketing software from the Italian company founded in 2006, basically for creating newsletters in a WYSIWYG editor and sending them out to the multitudes, with tools facilitating this: programmable tags, personalization, link checking, embedded image support, file importing, templates, and help from partner Mailstyler (free) for newsletter optimization and styling. Bulk mailing is managed for free with Sendblaster…N/A
Pricing
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendblaster
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendblaster
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendblaster
Features
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendblaster
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Journey Optimizer
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Ratings
Sendblaster
8.6
2 Ratings
7% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
List management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Journey Optimizer
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Ratings
Sendblaster
8.0
1 Ratings
4% above category average
Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
User Ratings
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendblaster
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(49 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(49 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendblaster
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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Sendblaster
Sendblaster is a great tool for any environment. It's particularly good in organizations that do not have a full featured CRM that manages bulk email marketing and communication. Even if an organization has a great CRM, Sendblaster is still great for those marketing or communication campaigns that go out to recipients who are not already in the CRM, custom groups, bulk sending that you want to keep separate from your other CRM(s), etc.
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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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Sendblaster
  • Rendering HTML source code
  • Managing mailing lists
  • You can control the speed of email broadcasts
  • Ease of importing lists
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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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Sendblaster
  • The user interface could be more polished. It's very easy to use, but the appearance of the user interface looks a little old fashioned for a desktop software. Of course recipients don't see that interface, so that is not very consequential.
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
Doesn't apply.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
I didnpt help purchase
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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
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Professional Services
Adobe
very professional
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Sendblaster
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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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Sendblaster
  • Customer service was greatly improved because of Sendblaster. We were able to design our communication exactly the way we wanted to improve communication effectiveness.
  • Sendblaster helped our brand because email recipients have been very impressed by the polished visual appearance of our outgoing messages, consistent branding and use of logo, wordmark, and other identifiers, etc.
  • We saved a lot of money with Sendblaster. Our organization can send unlimited messages, and the Sendblaster software we paid for places no limit on messages sent. So, since there are no ongoing subscription fees or volume fees after paying for the the software, we saved a lot. Other "software as a service" options would have cost a minimum of $50 per month, and potentially a lot more than that for high-volume email communication.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Journey Optimizer Screenshots

Screenshot of Channel Setup in Adobe Journey OptimizerScreenshot of Content Accelerator in Adobe Journey OptimizerScreenshot of In App Message Designer in Adobe Journey OptimizerScreenshot of Screenshot of Profiles Dashboard in Adobe Journey OptimizerScreenshot of SMS Journey in Adobe Journey Optimizer