Adobe Journey Optimizer vs. SendPulse

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Journey Optimizer
Score 8.3 out of 10
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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
SendPulse
Score 3.6 out of 10
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SendPulse is an integrated messaging platform providing user communication that includes emails, SMS, web push, SMTP, and user management.. This solution includes 15,000 free emails with up to 2,500 subscribers per month.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing starts from $9 a month and depends on the number of messages sent.
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Community Pulse
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Adobe Journey Optimizer
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Adobe Analytics is head and shoulders about journey analytics. It’s simple an easy to use. It gives you the most accurate real-time data. It’s also the best reporting platform out there in the market. It was so easy to sign up and start using it for our internal reports. …
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Adobe Marketo Engage
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Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Adobe Analytics and Adobe Experience Manager
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no comparison. the connectivity with CDP and AEP sets it above all competitors. The only thing that gives mail chimp and almost all of abobe's competitors and advantage is the simplicity, ease of implementation and ability to upload a quick list and send immediately without a …
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AJO has more capabilities compared to Marketo.
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Because the data is central to Adobe, this helps us flow to market and present ourselves to our prospects as an overall better experience.
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With the AEP ecosystem, AJO will have a real-time impact.
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This is a great product to have in combination with our content management system we use that is Adobe experience manager.
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Adobe Journey Optimizer provides even more personalized unique experiences than Marketo. Adobe Journey Optimizer allows 1:1 personalized journeys using real time behaviour and across more channels like sms, mobile, etc. whereas marketo is more web and email based. Adobe Journey …
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Adobe ANalytics is simplified data and analytics tool, not comparable.
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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 …
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
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Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
SendPulse
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SendPulse was more professionally developed - the better usability. It was a reason we moved to SendPulse from Pipeline. The main problems were discovered during using this software
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For SendPulse's price point, I consider their competition to be the likes of MailChimp, ConstantContact, etc. While SendPulse rates roughly average across the board in all areas, for businesses looking for the cheapest option (which comes with a lack of features/quality), …
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This software has many advanced features which make it my favourite email service for sending newsletters. Its UI is very intuitive and easy to operate. Its drag and drop feature can create beautiful emails in very little time. In this software I can send email in specific …
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Its campaign editor feature makes it my favourite application for email marketing. It is extremely easy to send a campaign in very less time. And the results are very satisfying. So I switched to this application.
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Its integration with sms facility and Viber makes it different from others.
To be very honest I use all three facilities depending upon the content which i need to communicate to my subscribers. I use SendPulse more frequently because of its richness. And it delivers good …
We use SendPulse for different purposes - starting with regular email campaigns and up to push notifications and smart processes for increasing open rate. It's not the only service we use for our email marketing needs, but it's definitely one of the most powerful ones. It was …
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SendPulse's artificial intelligence feature and the easy but powerful A/B Testing feature helps us test many subject ideas for our subscribers. The other similar product in the email marketing field doesn't have push notifications on the browser. Push notification is not and …
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I transitioned recently from Mailchimp to SendPulse because I love to be able to customise my messages more so that emails are sent at the right time for each customer. This for me is a HUGE advantage that SendPulse provides. Additionally, even with a small list, Mailchimp was …
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SendPulse is a great new email provider for your businesses. I have worked with other clients in the past such as Constant Contact and Blue Hornet and haven't found as many talking points as I have with SendPulse.
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Sendpulse is a lot cheaper and has unique features like resend capabilities as well as AI options that others just don't offer. For our company, we need to get the best return on our time and money and with sendpulse's pricing and features we do.
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For me, it was the obvious choice if we compared SendPulse and MailChimp/MailerLite/Aweber. Some of the competitors don't have SMS/push features, some are too simple (MailerLite), some are too complex or not so intuitive. I always preferred more all-in-one tools, because …
Features
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendPulse
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
SendPulse
4.0
Ratings
67% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
List management00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Journey Optimizer
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SendPulse
4.7
Ratings
49% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendPulse
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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1.0
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Likelihood to Renew
7.9
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9.1
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Usability
7.5
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3.0
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Availability
7.3
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Performance
6.4
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Support Rating
6.4
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9.1
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In-Person Training
4.5
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Online Training
4.5
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Implementation Rating
8.2
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8.2
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Configurability
5.5
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Product Scalability
7.3
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Adobe Journey OptimizerSendPulse
Likelihood to Recommend
Unifying all Adobe products and journeys. Omnichannel marketing. We wish it were easier to build emails, but it requires coding. I think once we get more training and use cases, we will be able to leverage it more effectively and get more out of it. We have other Adobe tools to use with it.
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In my department it is very well suited. It is one of the best application for sending weekly newsletters to my clients. I use it to send important market information to my clients on a regular basis. The kind of templates it provides me I fill with adequate information for my clients. It also allows me to present that information in a very organised manner.
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Pros
  • Integration with other AEP products.
  • Easy build emails and journeys as long as there aren't complex integrations from AEM.
  • Integration with AEM to see what AEM Content fragments are in use in what journeys.
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  • I feel its User Interface is one of the strengths. It is very simple to operate. It is not necessary for any user to have good knowledge of newsletters design or e-mailer design to make a good and informative e-mail design on this software.
  • Its technical ability to send user's campaign to customer's Inbox is something which one can rely on. Its deliver-ability is almost 100 percent.
  • It gives detailed analysis of any campaign. And this feature is very necessary for any software to help its users to understand the outcome of that email activity. SendPulse is awesome in this feature. It gives you detailed statistics to analyse your campaign. Users can download these statistics in PDF and Excel format also.
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Cons
  • Intuitive UI design / Ease of accessibility for users with limited experience/subject knowledge.
  • Analytics integration is difficult to navigate.
  • My organization is having a difficult time adopting this platform across all divisions due to resistance to the new technology (accuracy, etc.).
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  • I like its Drag and Drop function to design e-mailers but it lacks in some functionalities. Foe example when I write two different contents in a same box I need a line to show separation between my contents in the same box but this feature is unavailable in SendPulse.
  • They should include more fonts. Every product or service needs different kind of fonts to make a right impact on customers. With limited option of fonts it restricts user's creativity.
  • It is good to have templates to give users some idea for designing campaigns but here SendPluse has nothing much to offer. They have very limited number of templates.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Because I love how easy and intuitive SendPulse is.
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Usability
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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I find that overall SendPulse is very intuitive to use and the support is there to help you out in case you don't find how to do what you wish to do. The drag and drop functionalities make it easy to create the newsletters you want. Every field is explained and small tutorials are included to show you how to create a new template, newsletter, etc. which makes it very easy to use.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Performance
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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Support Rating
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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Every time I contacted the support team with a question or a problem, they were very fast in replying and helping me out solve it. Usually latest within 10 minutes I would receive a first answer, and the problem would get solved on the same day.
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In-Person Training
It didnpt possess anything new from the online version of it, in fact, there were less
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Online Training
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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Implementation Rating
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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When implementing SendPulse, it is a good idea to have a transition phase where you still use both systems, in case anything goes wrong.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe Analytics is head and shoulders about journey analytics. It’s simple an easy to use. It gives you the most accurate real-time data. It’s also the best reporting platform out there in the market. It was so easy to sign up and start using it for our internal reports. Journey optimization uses some of the reporting data but it never shows journey in one go. There is lot of initial setup to do.
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For SendPulse's price point, I consider their competition to be the likes of Mailchimp, ConstantContact, etc. While SendPulse rates roughly average across the board in all areas, for businesses looking for the cheapest option (which comes with a lack of features/quality), ConstantContact beats them. For quality/features/value, I'd say Mailchimp is the best option for small businesses.
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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • Improved customer experience, allowing you to more confidently target customers with greater precision.
  • Ability to run multiple journeys at the same time based on targeted audiences, instead of blindly performing segmentation and targeting.
  • The interface fonts and icons are sometimes small and may require drilling down to several levels to configure a journey flow. E.g., Applying the right filter when sending an email with the right matching key requires multiple clicks, driving deeper into different levels of schema attributes.
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  • Tapping NRI clients with this software helps me in generating good revenue in last financial year.
  • I grow my NRI database by 60 in last year. And this software played a major role in doing so.
  • It made brand building very easy among my clients.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Journey Optimizer Screenshots

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SendPulse Screenshots

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