Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform vs. Epsilon PeopleCloud vs. Rudderstack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Adobe's Real-Time Customer Data Platform allows marketers to collect, normalize, and unify known and pseudonymous consumer and professional data into real-time profiles. These person or account-based profiles then power B2B, B2C, and hybrid customer experiences at scale.N/A
Epsilon PeopleCloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Epsilon PeopleCloud (formerly the Agility platform with Agility Harmony) is an enterprise-level email marketing and cross-channel campaign management platform competing with Responsys, Cheetah Mail, ExactTarget, etc. The vendor has a strong international presence with staff in 14 countries.N/A
Rudderstack
Score 2.0 out of 10
N/A
Rudderstack is an open source Customer Data Platform (CDP) that provides data pipelines making it easy to collect data from every application, website and SaaS platform.
$600
per month
Pricing
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformEpsilon PeopleCloudRudderstack
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$600
per month
Growth
Custom
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Real-Time CDPEpsilon PeopleCloudRudderstack
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAdobe offers three tiers of Real-Time CDP tailored for any type of business wanting to power their customer experience management strategy with unified customer data. The Business-to-Consumer Edition is for B2C brands wanting to personalize experiences for consumers. The Business-to-Business Edition is for B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for leads and accounts. The Business-to-Person Edition is for combined B2C and B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for the same person across all lines of business.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
7.6
20 Ratings
8% below category average
Epsilon PeopleCloud
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Ratings
Rudderstack
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Ratings
Tag library7.719 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.419 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.819 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring7.517 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page load times7.717 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging7.517 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
8.2
23 Ratings
0% above category average
Epsilon PeopleCloud
-
Ratings
Rudderstack
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Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.323 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.223 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization8.222 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Management
Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
7.8
24 Ratings
7% below category average
Epsilon PeopleCloud
-
Ratings
Rudderstack
-
Ratings
Account Scoring7.819 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Governance7.923 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Connectors8.124 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enhancement7.224 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion8.324 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage7.924 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Visibility7.424 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Data8.424 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Identity Resolution7.523 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformEpsilon PeopleCloudRudderstack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(23 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(23 ratings)
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Usability
8.0
(23 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformEpsilon PeopleCloudRudderstack
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
In any scenario where we have a unique offline and online 'Person ID,' we are able to see great results with profile stitching within CDP. In cases where we do not have a unique Person ID between datasets, we find ourselves at a point where we would need to change our architecture to have the same Person ID to see results.
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Epsilon
Appropriate for large organizations who want customization in their emails. The tool - while intuitive if you have previous background - is hefty and large in scope of capabilities. It's great for organizations who have multiple users and shows the name of person who last made changes. The reporting is really good - but may be a bit overwhelming for organizations who don't need a lot of detailed information
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Rudderstack
Rudderstack is a great platform for capturing events from various systems and tying them all together in once place. This allows you to have a holistic view of your customer and reach them through various downstream platforms. It also enables the activation of data from your data warehouse into other platforms.
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Pros
Adobe
  • Real time segmentation and profiling on high volume of customer data
  • Integration of various customer data sources, ranging from CRM, Web Analytics, EDL and other custom sources
  • Data governance of customer data in the platform, down to attribute based access controls
  • Activation across paid media, marketing automation and experience optimization platforms
  • Easy to use interface for marketers
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Epsilon
  • Fairly intuitive if you have previous experience with high-end email tools.
  • The training opportunities are good - they offer both online and/or live training.
  • The support we receive is very good.
  • The reporting feature is good - a lot of detailed information.
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Rudderstack
  • Event streams
  • Reverse ETL
  • Identity resolution
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Cons
Adobe
  • Some features that are not yet released to all customers are necessary to manage cases like device sharing
  • The methodology of how data is stored and manage is relatively unique and requires some ramp-up to fully understand
  • There are some areas, like deduplication, where the platform doesn't provide the flexibility one would expect
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Epsilon
  • The tool could be improved to "remember" where you last left off (specific user). Having to constantly retrace steps if you get logged out is annoying.
  • Hitting the "back" arrow sends you back to a main section, when it should send you back to where you previously were.
  • It would be nice to see performance reports available within the campaign itself, as well as within the reporting section.
  • Ability to NOT be able to change anything in a campaign after it has launched. This has happened multiple times. We usually copy a previous campaign to start a new one but often, we end up changing content on the version we are copying from -- this is very annoying and dangerous.
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Rudderstack
  • Alerting
  • Destination catalog
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
As I mentioned earlier, there are many reasons such as preparing a unified customer profile so you can easily evaluate your customers, generating segments or audiences for similar types of customers based on city, country, or attributes, and targeting them for campaigns. You can also create individual personalized journeys based on the data available at the customer level.
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Epsilon
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Rudderstack
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Usability
Adobe
Activation - great Segmentation - in UI, there should be the possibility of writing advanced code Tags. Both Mobile and Desktop Data Ingestion - might be pain in the ass. Changing one customer attribute is time-consuming. It should be some super admin or some feature. One user can change some customers' attributes easily. Data Transformation - Maybe there are some modules for that in AJO?
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Epsilon
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Rudderstack
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Its my favorite tool in the entire Adobe Experience Platform ecosystem. I thought that its important to be connected with your customers and the best way to do it its to have a really good description to reveal what they like and prefer, that's the most important thing, so that's why I like Adobe Real-Time CDP
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Epsilon
While both Epsilon Agility Harmony and Oracle Responsys are great for larger organizations that send a lot of emails, I think Epsilon Agility Harmony is more robust than Responsys and is easier to use. It is significantly more complex than HubSpot and requires previous knowledge of using an email tool that has content blocks and or dynamic content.
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Rudderstack
Rudderstack offers a similar core product as Segment but differentiates itself with better reverse ETL and data warehouse integrations. They are also significantly less expensive than Segment. While Segment has more downstream destinations than Rudderstack this didn't negatively impact our use case
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Improved ability to target users across different marketing DSPs
  • Increased click and conversion rate for Adobe Target
  • Lowered opt out and bounce rates for email
  • Decreased time to value on audience segmentation
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Epsilon
  • Increased email production = more communication to customers.
  • Better reporting = determine areas for improvement or scale up efforts.
  • Working on getting our triggered emails optimized - there's a great opportunity for this with this tool.
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Rudderstack
  • Significant savings in developer resources
  • Faster moving product insights
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ScreenShots

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