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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

    Zoho Campaigns

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AZoho Campaigns is an email marketing and social networking campaigning tool for smaller companies that helps create, send, and track effective email campaigns. It features list management and segmentation, A/B Testing, tracking and reporting, automation, and mobile campaign management.

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    Pricing
    Adobe Journey OptimizerZoho Campaigns
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Forever Free
    $0
    Standard Plan
    $3 for 500 contacts
    per month
    Professional Plan
    $4.5 for 500 contacts
    per month
    Pay as you go
    $14 for 500 contacts
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Journey OptimizerZoho Campaigns
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Journey OptimizerZoho Campaigns
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
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    Zoho
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    43 Answers
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    68%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Journey OptimizerZoho Campaigns
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Journey Optimizer and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Campaigns
    9.3
    26 Ratings
    14% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.725 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings9.718 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings9.822 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings5.024 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.726 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.925 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.820 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Journey Optimizer and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Campaigns
    9.8
    26 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.825 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Adobe Journey Optimizer and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Campaigns
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings4.94 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Journey OptimizerZoho Campaigns
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    9.8
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (49 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 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)
    -
    (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
    Adobe Journey OptimizerZoho Campaigns
    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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    Zoho
    It is well suited in scenarios:
    1. Well-defined static list with proper info.
    2. Not building email templates from scratch
    3. Litmus testing involved
    4. Easy to use simple automation journeys involved
    Not well-suited scenarios:
    1. Complex Customer journeys
    2. Dynamic content involved
    3. Integration with other products other than the ZOHO suite
    4. Testing API limits
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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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    Zoho
    • The best thing about this software is its integration with G-suite.
    • It's user interface is so easy that any user can learn it quickly. And it is very easy to operate.
    • It helps users to engage subscribers via various social media platforms.
    • It allows users to compare various email campaigns.
    Incentivized
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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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    Zoho
    • Zoho should start by throwing this tool in the trash and then recreate it from scratch. There are so many flaws I would be here all year trying to list them all. Start by the fact that creating templates is an absolute nightmare. You'll find over and over again that something that should be easily executed can't be done. It is NOT a plug and play program. Everything is trial and error.
    • The reporting SUCKS bad. It gives you basics, but if you want any real insights... I have to export all my data into my own spreadsheets to compare results from multiple campaigns.
    • Customer service is B.A.D. You'll spend HOURS upon HOURS with a tech support team that knows less than you. The only time anything gets accomplished is when you work with a programmer. BUT, you'll seriously waste 1-2 hours explaining a problem to someone who is only taking notes. You'll get so frustrated when they try to show you how they think it works and you respond with... "I know how this works because I have used it for a year - the problem is that it stopped working the way it always did before. They will argue with you. You will respond accordingly. They will close tickets without resolution. Speaking of tickets, you'll never get one. They say they will take care of it and a week later you will follow-up and no one will have any idea what is going on. You'll start from scratch and be even more frustrated. You will learn to "fix" it on your own or deal with it, broken.
    • After two years, I'm still not sure if my emails even make it to an inbox. When asked, you'll be told that you need to write better subject lines. I call bull****. Don't rely on this product to deliver your email. And don't question Zoho, as it will always be your fault.
    • You can't use this tool to send to ANY group email addresses. You can't even override the system. I have a lot of clients that use info@xxx.com or sales@xxx.com, etc. and I have to send them personal emails since this will not allow them to be sent. They say it is to protect them from getting blacklisted. I call bull**** again.
    • The templates offered by the system are crap - unless you only send holiday emails. Not a large selection of just generic templates. You'll be pulling your hair out trying to use their builder to create your own. In the end, you'll end up sending emails with nothing "pretty" about them.
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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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    Zoho
    Because I am a single user organization and the subscription is free for up to 3 users.
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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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    Zoho
    Zoho Campaigns is a powerful email sending tool. Zoho Campaigns is highly user-friendly and intuitive software. Complex email marketing tasks are simplified by Zoho Campaigns. Best part of Zoho Campaigns is that when you upload the email addresses it verifies that emails are valid or not. I have never seen this feature except in Zoho Campaigns.
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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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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    It didnpt possess anything new from the online version of it, in fact, there were less
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    Zoho
    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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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zoho
    Zoho Campaigns is not for beginners to email marketing, but it’s an excellent choice for those who want to send out a lot of emails with few restrictions and great reporting. It’s a no-brainer if you’re already a Zoho user, as Campaigns is included in Zoho One subscriptions and integrates nicely with other Zoho apps.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    I didnpt help purchase
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    Zoho
    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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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Adobe
    very professional
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    Zoho
    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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    Zoho
    • It allows us to communicate with all our customers or lists together or individually, and to track how successful our campaigns are.
    • Customer Service is a target area of why we use Zoho Campaigns, and it meets our needs greatly.
    • To date we have not really measured the ROI or impact that Zoho Campaigns has on our marketing efforts but with this product it certainly has the means to do such.
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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 OptimizerProduct screenshotScreenshot of Profiles Dashboard in Adobe Journey OptimizerScreenshot of SMS Journey in Adobe Journey Optimizer

    Zoho Campaigns Screenshots

    Screenshot of Template editorScreenshot of Real-time analyticsScreenshot of List managementScreenshot of Send time optimizationScreenshot of Automation—WorkflowsScreenshot of Dashboard