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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

    MadKudu

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMadKudu is an AI Sales Copilot that helps sellers book more meetings. By automating the research of internal data and external signals, MadKudu removes the tedious work of prospecting.N/A

    TechTarget Priority Engine

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APriority Engine is TechTarget's primary intent data offering. The vendor aims to enable marketing and sales teams by providing behavior insights for high priority accounts and leads.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageMadKuduTechTarget Priority Engine
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Select
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    Prime
    Pricing based on database size.
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageMadKuduTechTarget Priority Engine
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageMadKuduTechTarget Priority Engine
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
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    HG Insights
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    TechTarget
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    283 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageMadKuduTechTarget Priority Engine
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1074 Ratings
    2% below category average
    MadKudu
    -
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
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    WYSIWYG email editor7.8976 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.3955 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.0927 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages7.2995 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.8979 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization6.9939 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.51037 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.51032 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.5931 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.2
    1036 Ratings
    3% above category average
    MadKudu
    -
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
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    Lead nurturing automation8.51009 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.4985 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.5983 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.8930 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution8.954 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    962 Ratings
    11% below category average
    MadKudu
    -
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
    -
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    Calendaring6.0785 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.6918 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    614 Ratings
    11% below category average
    MadKudu
    -
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
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    Social sharing and campaigns6.4606 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.5
    1036 Ratings
    14% below category average
    MadKudu
    -
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
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    Dashboards6.2978 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.71018 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.4962 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1026 Ratings
    0% below category average
    MadKudu
    -
    Ratings
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    -
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    API7.9890 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.4759 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.5908 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.4883 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.4316 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM6.5210 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.348 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
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    MadKudu
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
    10.0
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Contact information00 Ratings00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Industry information00 Ratings00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Adobe Marketo Engage and MadKudu and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    MadKudu
    -
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    TechTarget Priority Engine
    7.5
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Web Personalization00 Ratings00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    3rd party intent signals00 Ratings00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals00 Ratings00 Ratings5.74 Ratings
    Account identification00 Ratings00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Buyer journey tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Revenue forecasts00 Ratings00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Audience segmentation00 Ratings00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Conversion optimization00 Ratings00 Ratings5.36 Ratings
    Content Syndication00 Ratings00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Conversica
    Score4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageMadKuduTechTarget Priority Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (1244 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.5
    (147 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (99 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.6
    (92 ratings)
    -
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    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Configurability
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Ease of integration
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Marketo EngageMadKuduTechTarget Priority Engine
    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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    HG Insights
    MadKudu has seamless integration capabilities and automations.
    Effectiveness of the software in sales and leads tracking.
    Software simplicity and flexibility.
    Availability of brilliant customer support services.
    MadKudu has a clean user interface and easy to use features.
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    TechTarget
    TechTarget would notify us when prospects looked us up by name or specifically researched areas where our product would prove beneficial. It did a great job gauging legitimate interest from the prospect and gave an idea of a timeline as well so that we could understand their urgency.
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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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    HG Insights
    • Software accuracy in lead scoring and nurturing.
    • Easy integration of the software into our various lead models and multi data sources.
    • Availability of amazing customer success team.
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    TechTarget
    • Contact Info is pretty good. I've occasionally found better data than I can get from our chosen lead solution.
    • I don't know of another alternative source, but TechTarget provides data on content that people are researching.
    • TechTarget provides current tech stack for companies that I'm researching.
    Incentivized
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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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    HG Insights
    • The product is very expensive and not affordable to small organisations and start-ups.
    • MadKudu supports only one language which is English. This limits its usability.
    • The software has limited customization.
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    TechTarget
    • It is not particularly intuitive
    • Too many steps to get where I need to go
    • Needs to provide more depth to help determine urgency and intent to buy
    • Response rate from contacting leads based on search behaviors was almost nil. This may be partially due to messaging on our end.
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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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
    Ability of the software in fully automating time consuming processes and ensuring lesser time of doing tedious tasks. Madkudu has considerably quality customer support services providers that ensure seamless product implementation by offering real-time support services.
    The software has well elaborated tutorials that enhance its usability to beginners.
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    TechTarget
    Usability is great, we would love to see how strong the intent is for every keywords
    Incentivized
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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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    I'm just a business user of TechTarget so I really haven't had the chance to gauge what the support is from a customer standpoint. Given that we recently rolled it out and everyone is utilizing it daily I would assume that their support is strong enough for us to continues to use it.
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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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    HG Insights
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    TechTarget
    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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    HG Insights
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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    TechTargets Priority Engine's interface and customizable features were easier to use and better organized than ZoomInfo's. I like the custom alerts that TechTarget provided, and I'm not sure ZoomInfo had the same feature. I would get email alerts any time a target customer read a white paper or downloaded a brochure, which made my timing for prospecting much easier. I do believe ZoomInfo's company directories are more robust and wide-spread
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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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
    • Use of the software in our organisation has increased customer engagement and enhanced lead generation.
    • The product has helped in streamlining our sales and market workflows.
    • Introduction of MadKudu in our organisation has ensured comprehensive tracking of website visitors and sales pipelines management.
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    TechTarget
    • It is best when used in conjunction with all of our other tooling and not used alone
    • It has enabled my team to have a better feel for what is happening at a prospect's company
    • It sometimes consumes too many hours in the day waiting on data to load, and time is wasted toggling between pages
    Incentivized
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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