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 8.4 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
No answers on this topic
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
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
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
Considered Both Products
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Chose Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
Adobe has a better usability, overall better profile governance and a better estimation for audiences. It works great with other Adobe Products
Salesforce Data 360
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 …
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
7.6
21 Ratings
8% below category average
Salesforce Data 360
-
Ratings
Tag library7.720 Ratings00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.420 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.820 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring7.518 Ratings00 Ratings
Page load times7.718 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging7.518 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
24 Ratings
0% above category average
Salesforce Data 360
-
Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.324 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization8.223 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
25 Ratings
7% below category average
Salesforce Data 360
-
Ratings
Account Scoring7.820 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Governance7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Connectors8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enhancement7.225 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage7.925 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Visibility7.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Data8.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Identity Resolution7.524 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
7.3
5 Ratings
12% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings6.83 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
5 Ratings
3% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.9
5 Ratings
1% above category average
Data model creation00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.5
5 Ratings
6% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(21 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(21 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(21 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data 360
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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Salesforce
If your organization is using vast list of system and then if you want to consolidate all those system data in one unified system then you should go with this. These requires a bit of expertise in Salesforce so if you don't have any team then it would be very hard to architect this.
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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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Salesforce
  • Easy to integrate with other software's. For example, I can gather customer data on another website or excel and import it easy onto Salesforce
  • Easy to use and learn
  • Easy to compare customer data and sales so easy to do reporting and updates instantly
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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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Salesforce
  • Integration with multiple systems
  • Sometimes the cost and the negotiations becomes hectic, because of sharing all the details to the vendor
  • Risk assessments and adoption
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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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
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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Salesforce
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
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
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Salesforce
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.
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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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Salesforce
  • I would say some sort of time utilization redueced because it gives everything on a single view rather than to go multiple
  • Some automated workflow can be integrated
  • Still it looks like a costly in terms of finance
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ScreenShots

Adobe Real-Time CDP Screenshots

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