Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform vs. Pulsar RESEARCH

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Score 8.3 out of 10
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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
Pulsar RESEARCH
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Pulsar RESEARCH, from Pulsar headquartered in London, includes continuous and one-off research programs integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies, to turn audience data into strategic insight.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Real-Time CDPPulsar RESEARCH
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo 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
Pulsar RESEARCH
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Ratings
Tag library7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.419 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.819 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring7.517 Ratings00 Ratings
Page load times7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging7.517 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
Pulsar RESEARCH
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Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.323 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.223 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization8.222 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
Pulsar RESEARCH
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Ratings
Account Scoring7.819 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Governance7.923 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Connectors8.124 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enhancement7.224 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion8.324 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Visibility7.424 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Data8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
Identity Resolution7.523 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformPulsar RESEARCH
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(23 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(23 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(23 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformPulsar RESEARCH
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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Pulsar
Pulsar is well suited for delivering social listening campaign insights and reporting over a longer period of time. The information and report we create are great... eventually, but it takes a long time to feel like they have gathered enough content that we can readily use. If they were able to speed up the delivery of the data and insights that would be incredibly helpful for our teams in many instances where we have a short runway to providing insights for our clients.
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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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Pulsar
  • Social listening across multiple platforms
  • Identifies target audiences with easily understood data visualizations
  • Provides customizable, engaging reports with impressive quality assets
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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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Pulsar
  • Pulsar is awesome. However it would be great if they were able to pull data and insights across a few other social platforms that we know our targets are using.
  • Having easily accessible "Hot To" videos on platform use would have definitely helped us get off the ground faster.
  • They should do away with the need to have to use boolean information in order to access deeper dives into searches.
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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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Pulsar
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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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Pulsar
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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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Pulsar
Pulsar does an excellent job standing up to and standing out from their competition. The thing that attracted us to the platform is its ongoing platform updates and improvements. A lot of SAS platforms get people to sign up and then they don't continue to refine their platform. They don't stay ahead of the curve in delivering leading-edge solutions. Pulsar has continued to modify and expand its solutions. That's really important - especially when you are recommending platform investments for your company... that last thing you want is to talk something up and then it doesn't deliver. Pulsar definitely has delivered.
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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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Pulsar
  • Ease of use
  • Great data visualization options
  • Increased client engagement during reporting and presentations
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ScreenShots

Adobe Real-Time CDP Screenshots

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