Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform vs. Salesforce Data 360

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
Salesforce Data 360
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Data 360 (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud, or Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.
$108,000
per year per org
Pricing
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
Editions & Modules
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Data Cloud for Marketing
$108000
per year per org
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Real-Time CDPSalesforce Data 360
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
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
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
Considered Both Products
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Compared to competitors like Salesforce Data Cloud and Twilio Segment, RT-CDP is strongest in real-time segmentation, audience activation, and deep integration with digital experience tools. It was purpose-built to stream data, unify profiles, and activate them quickly for …
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Real time access of data
Very popular so no need of marketing
Customer profiles are updated immediately and easy to access multiple customer data
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Tealium CDP is too much simple and works mostly with those type of Business who are not majorly in Adobe's ecosystem. However in data governence Adobe Real-Time CDP is definitely a better product and help business to get robust growth
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
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 …
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Journey Optimizer and Adobe Experience Manager
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe Campaign, Adobe Target and Adobe Analytics
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
CDP enables data management and segment aspects, leveraging data from ADobe Analytics and EDL, while Adobe Target enables us to do A/B Testing and personilation use-cases
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
It is extremely valuable to have AEP as shared data foundation for the different Adobe products
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe takes a very different approach to how profiles are stitched together than these other platforms. There are pros and cons, but there are more pros to the way Adobe has approached it. Also, the Adobe approach is designed from the ground up in the context of the other AEP …
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Because of multiple reason:
1. Supports AI
2. Real time data processing
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe has a better usability, overall better profile governance and a better estimation for audiences. It works great with other Adobe Products
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
The whole stack approach and have everything under the same vendor simplifies things.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe CDP is a very capable product that offers all of the features that its competitors offer and more. The only differences can be noticed while connecting with other external tools. Adobe can help easily connect with tools within its ecosystem: Analytics/Marketo/Target, etc.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
I have no answer for now.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Synerise - All segments are real-time. We do not need to wait for the batch process. Data automations/transformation processes in SAS 360 - do not know well. However, AEP has better UI.
Salesforce Data 360
Chose Salesforce Data 360
Salesforce has different version which can de adequate to smaller companies like ours. It also has a more complete suite than the others, is easier to use and way faster to start using it. Their support and sales team are very friendly and attentive. They're always ready to …
Chose Salesforce Data 360
we have evaluated snowflake, adobe rt-cdp as well. They also offer a very strong capabilities but the Data 360 is more suitable for us because of the same Salesforce ecosystem. The main key factor is without any custom code we were able to include it into our automations. And …
Chose Salesforce Data 360
While SAP, Oracle, Mulesoft and Snowfake provides data ingestion and analytics, they also require complex configuration and custom work. With Salesforce , we can unify the data within Salesforce system from different sources and this also helps in better decision making. With …
Chose Salesforce Data 360
Trust across using the product, features and its usability makes it apart.
Chose Salesforce Data 360
Really, Data Cloud is impulsing or is helping us use agents because of the data that we have collected there and the functionality that we have.
Chose Salesforce Data 360
They are quite similar but it was a decision made amongst other stakeholders as well so I can’t justify the reason from my own department but as I understand salesforce allows better integration and since our CRM is already on salesforce it makes sense for us to unify at all.
Chose Salesforce Data 360
I like Salesforce Data Cloud because like mentioned before, it is easy to use, easy to generate reports, create workflows, keep track of customer data, sales data, house data, etc. You can also import excel sheets with customer data as well and it will create the fields for you …
Chose Salesforce Data 360
One stop solution for all your needs, it's easy to setup and work on. High on analysis and reporting. Minimal error scope and higher quality data analytics which exponentially leads to growth in sales.
Features
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
Salesforce Data 360
-
Ratings
Tag library7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Page load times7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce Data 360
-
Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization8.30 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
Ratings
5% below category average
Salesforce Data 360
-
Ratings
Account Scoring7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Governance8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Connectors8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enhancement7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Visibility7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Data8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Identity Resolution7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.9
Ratings
5% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.8
Ratings
4% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.8
Ratings
1% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
6.9
Ratings
15% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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8.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(0 ratings)
6.0
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Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform is well suited for organisations that have extensive PII data with attributes & consumer behaviors. Also, who wants to run omnichannel customer acquisition and focus on middle- or low-funch campaigns? Also, having multiple digital assets (i.e., website, mobile application, CRM, SMS campaign channels, etc).
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Great tool for client management, sales tracking, cases studies. Using is as the source of truth for all client communication. Allowing more integration options for cc and ACH payments. Right now the options are limited and only integrate with strict processing capabilities that are not always in the businesses best interest.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Allows use to bring external data into Salesforce as zero-copy
  • Is able to present data using standard Salesforce reports familiar to our users
  • Allows us to establish multiple relationships between our CRM data and the external data to contextualize the imported data.
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Cons
  • 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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  • pricing or costing visibilty, we can't estimate what would be consumption this month and suddenly we get surprised
  • CI/CD can be improved, that looks a difficult and hard
  • Also sandbox comes with many limitation so very hard to replicate production like environment to test
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Likelihood to Renew
We will definitely renew the product because we are making business through the software the data management and prediction is easier in this earlier the learning curve was tough but now as I have learnt it It became handy to me. We are successful in retaining previous precious clients now we can offer them discounts on early bookings, entertainment ideas can be discussed to engage people. So definitely I will work with Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform.
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Usability
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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I gave rating 8 because it offers powerful data unification, strong insight , improved customer interaction and reliable performance. This rating also includes overall data visibility and usability across teams. The reason of not giving 10 is its complexity sometimes and costing. This can be less efficient and more complicated for sometimes.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe CDP is a very capable product that offers all of the features that its competitors offer and more. The only differences can be noticed while connecting with other external tools. Adobe can help easily connect with tools within its ecosystem: Analytics/Marketo/Target, etc.
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Salesforce has different version which can de adequate to smaller companies like ours. It also has a more complete suite than the others, is easier to use and way faster to start using it. Their support and sales team are very friendly and attentive. They're always ready to answer our questions, and what I like the most is that humans always respond our question, not AI like most of the other tools assistance.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Salesforce Data Cloud has a positive impact on me as a realtor because it is easy to generate reports on customer data and see what is needed to be bumped to the next level. We have to earn a certain commission by the end of the year and it makes it easy to see how close you are
  • It has a positive impact on keeping track of customers because it is nice to have it all in one place which is a nice time saver
  • I like that you can even see customer info from other agents making it nice to compare and try and pass others
  • Makes the customers journey smooth sailing because everything is in one place
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ScreenShots

Adobe Real-Time CDP Screenshots

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