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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A

    Canto

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/ACanto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.N/A
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    Adobe Marketo EngageCanto
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    Adobe Marketo EngageCanto
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—Canto's platform, supported by a flexible and transparent pricing structure, caters to a diverse array of industries. It empowers companies ranging from teams of 50 employees to global enterprises to fuel their content delivery, maximizing their ROI.
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    Adobe Marketo EngageCanto
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    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Canto
    Chose Canto
    Canto had the best features compared to the price of anyone and met our essential needs of ease of use, portals, meta data completeness. Libris came close to Canto in these features, but overall, canto won with pricing terms and portals. Brandfolder was a contender as well but …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
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    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageCanto
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1074 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Canto
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor7.8976 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.3955 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.0927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages7.2995 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.8979 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization6.9939 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.61037 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.51032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.5931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.2
    1036 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Canto
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.51009 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.4985 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.5983 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.8930 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution8.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.9
    962 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Canto
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    Calendaring6.1785 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.6918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    614 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Canto
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns6.4606 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.5
    1036 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Canto
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Dashboards6.2978 Ratings6.810 Ratings
    Standard reports6.71018 Ratings6.69 Ratings
    Custom reports6.4962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content analytics00 Ratings6.59 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1026 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Canto
    -
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    API7.9890 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.4759 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.5908 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.4883 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.4316 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM6.5210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.348 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Features
    Comparison of DAM Features features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Canto
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    Canto
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Uploading assets00 Ratings7.623 Ratings
    Downloading assets00 Ratings8.424 Ratings
    Categories00 Ratings7.423 Ratings
    Asset storage00 Ratings8.223 Ratings
    Asset sharing00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Asset search00 Ratings7.724 Ratings
    Tagging system00 Ratings7.323 Ratings
    Content editing00 Ratings6.416 Ratings
    Embed codes00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Metadata00 Ratings6.820 Ratings
    Collections00 Ratings7.621 Ratings
    User access00 Ratings6.823 Ratings
    DAM Integrations00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    DAM API00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Workflow automations00 Ratings5.99 Ratings
    Related asset discovery00 Ratings6.713 Ratings
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    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Adobe Bridge
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Cloudinary
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageCanto
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (1244 ratings)
    8.1
    (253 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.5
    (147 ratings)
    9.9
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (99 ratings)
    9.0
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (92 ratings)
    7.6
    (157 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Marketo EngageCanto
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is an excellent tool for hosting registration forms and sending out tokenized emails based on a particular person's information within your database. For example, if someone attends an event or webinar and indicates that they'd like to learn more about your product, then Adobe Marketo Engage can easily trigger a specific email template to that person that will be personalized with tokens about them. The pixel tracking that can be applied to any web page is also very helpful. If you want to focus on a more 1:1 type of follow up with a Lead, then the automated emails are not going to be as useful.
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    Canto
    Canto is an excellent tool for organizing assets and searching for them in one location. I also really enjoy using the mobile version of Canto on my smartphone when I am on the go. Canto is robust and fast and it has been a major advancement in the way that my organization stores and shares assets.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage excels at automating complex marketing workflows and delivering personalized customer experiences at scale.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage enables marketers to create targeted campaigns, schedule automated email sequences, and personalize content based on user demographics and interactions, resulting in more relevant customer engagement.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage provides robust analytics and reporting, allowing teams to track campaign performance, monitor conversion rates, and measure return on investment(ROI).
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    Canto
    • Ability to manage several portals and allow different users access to each.
    • Ability to customize each Canto platform or portal to suit all needs.
    • The platform is very easy to use, and while there are more complex components to the platform, users are able to use only the basics and remain very successful.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • The most important thing is the UI; it still looks very old and should be updated to meet current market design standards.
    • Admin Complexity: It should be easy to setup at the first go.
    • Tool Navigation: Navigation should be more easier.
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    Canto
    • The brand templates add-on is very difficult to use. It sounds great on paper, but when you actually try to use it you find out it's very clunky and limited.
    • Adding fonts to style guides is difficult. Would love to see some sort of integration with Adobe and Google fonts.
    • Duplicate finder only finds exact duplicates, so if a file has been run through processing of any sort it doesn't find it (ie Photoshop, Lightroom). Would be great if it could have some sort of optical duplicate finder.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We're likely to renew for several reasons:
    • Now that it's been implemented, I can't imagine not having marketing automation and the easy interface that Marketo provides to run our campaigns
    • Marketo's community and customer service is fantastic; I know that when I need help, I'll get it
    • Marketo continues to improve the product, so I know that I can expect it to be even more useful in the future
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    Canto
    It's a fantastic product and we get a lot of mileage out of Canto. I would 100% say that we plan to renew our subscription and have not explored any other digital asset management tools. It has all the tools we need, seamlessly connects with Adobe products (out primary design tool) and continues to innovate.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    In some aspects, the tool can feel quite clunky in parts. But with the rich feature set it has, it's understandable. There is a lot of room for improvement for the user interface. The system itself doesn't have a slick or modern feel, so the usability could feel nicer to use with these areas considered.
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    Canto
    Canto is about as easy to use as it gets. I have personally trained a handful of employees who are unfamiliar with DAM/marketing SaaS technology on how to use the platform for their needs. These trainings only take about half an hour (given they are using a very limited set of Canto's features), and afterward, they are pretty well-equipped to use the platform.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Marketo provides different way and abilities to connect. If you are having product support or unexplained errors you can get someone on Marketo support 24 hours a day. One of Marketo's greatest assets in my opinion however would be the community. Often times our company is just looking for case success stories from someone else. In the community you can search for problems you are currently facing and see others having the same issue and solutions for those issues. If not, you can pose a question to the whole community and champions of the product and others can chime in to provide suggestions to fix your needs. The community is truly a 24/7 place to get your answers quickly.
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    Canto
    Canto is usually available, though sometimes goes down for 30 min - 1 hr. Usually resolved quickly
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    Performance
    Adobe
    There are times when it is slightly slow for us, where we sit on a screen waiting for it to load. This could be our internet since we have had the same issue occasionally with other systems, but it is enough to make you crazy.
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    Canto
    I've satisfied with the performance
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    On multiple occasions we've had Marketo support (technical and license based) issues. Technical issues were minor and resolved within a day. License based issues (even things encouraged by Marketo for partners, like provisioning another license) took WEEKS. They actually took so long to respond that the client we were working with withdrew from the contract because they were no longer convinced Marketo was capable of supporting their business. As an agency trying to sell the software, you can only explain away so much before they just made us look silly.
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    Canto
    I think Canto's onboarding process was really helpful. Our employees were able to utilize the system without excess training sessions which isn't always the case with some software. I also think that their customer support has proven to be super helpful when minor issues arise
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    Our account rep stopped out in Lincoln, NE to ensure we were properly set up and running. This was very much appreciated. I was very, very new at this point, so I can't comment very much on the extent of what was taught because I was still brand new to the company and the system
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    Canto
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Adobe
    I had never used Marketo prior to taking this job so online training was my starting point. I was able to follow along, it was interesting and quickly and efficiently taught me what I needed to know without a lot of fluff. It was far from boring and really helped me get my hands dirty with Marketo.
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    Canto
    Very knowledgable and accommodating trainers who listen to what you're asking and provide detailed yet simple instructions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    1. Have a content marketing plan to run in parallel with the marketing automation installation--you'll need a lot of content to make full use of Marketo's capabilities. 2. Work with sales (and ISRs) to define and document a workflow--build your Marketo installation around how you do business--not figure out how to apply your business to the tools 3. Spend time of data cleaning--both an initial project as well as a strategy for ongoing data management. We found some change manaement issues (no more appending ZZZ to the first name to identify contacts who have left the company, for example, or prohibiting the entry of "info@company.com" email addresses). 4. Find some champions in the sales and ISR teams. You'll have both fans and detractors--work with the fans to build some success stories
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    Canto
    We didn't have a thorough enough plan for ownership of uploading and tagging and some of our tags were inconsistent which led to some regression in our usage. We tightened up that plan on our end and spoke with support team on Canto's end to establish some best practices and have a much better workflow now.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is one of the best email sending platforms I have worked with, because there is so much you can do on a lead scoring area and also then connect this to other platforms such as Salesforce. It allows for seamless reporting and working alongside sales colleagues. We chose Adobe Marketo Engage because it allows for more sophisticated audience segmentation and management of ongoing large scale nurture flows across a number of complex criteria.
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    Canto
    Dropbox is not as organized as Canto is. This is very impactful to help us stay consistent and to stay proper when managing our digital assets. Moreover, the ease of navigation is a lot better than Dropbox ever was, this is a big reason why our company has been using Canto for SEVERAL years.We do not want to leave Canto!
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
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    Canto
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Adobe
    We look at scaleability in a few different ways. First, the speed while using Marketo has remained relatively the same as our database has grown. Though I would say Marketo is slow at times, it has not gotten slower over the last few years. If anything, it has improved, and they are working to improve it. Second, the amount of programs we have developed in Marketo has exponentially grown as well. Marketo has allowed us to drastically increase our output without having to drastically increase our headcount.
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    Canto
    Canto is based on the West coast, so occasionally patches and planned outages happen during East coast working hours
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage automation capabilities have reduced the amount of manual work required to execute campaigns, allowing our marketing team to focus more on strategy and customer engagement rather than repetitive administrative tasks.
    • The platform has helped us generate more qualified leads through personalized campaigns and lead scoring, enabling our sales team to focus on prospects with the highest likelihood of converting.
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    Canto
    • Covid: We all worked from home. It was a major impact for us to stop using a sketchy VPN that is slow and painful. We all became so much more efficient in our work.
    • Sharing assets: Our company has grown substantially in the past 3 years. Having Canto means that we can easily share assets with our worldwide divisions. We are leading the way on this as the companies we acquired are using archaic servers. We will bring everyone in the Canto world to better manage our assets.
    • Control: Prior to Canto, people were misusing images - not using the right ones, not using watermarks. Now it's all preventable and we are seeing better quality images used appropriately.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Contact Timeline in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Audience Feature in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Progressive Profiling in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Insights Dashboard in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Sources in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Metrics in Adobe Marketo Engage

    Canto Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Canto AI Visual Search to discover digital assets faster.Screenshot of asset discovery with AI Visual Search, using natural language to instantly find the most relevant images and videos in Canto.Screenshot of Canto's integrations, including Adobe Creative Suite, Hootsuite, Canva, and monday.com.Screenshot of sharing tools to push on-brand digital content to teams, channels, and platforms while maintaining control with access controls and digital rights management.Screenshot of the organized, searchable content hub, where everyone can always find what they need, when they need it.