Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform vs. SessionM

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
SessionM
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
SessionM is a customer engagement platform that combines customer data management, loyalty program and offer management, and cross-channel campaign management (SMS, email, push, and in-app messages).N/A
Pricing
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSessionM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Real-Time CDPSessionM
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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Features
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSessionM
Tag Management
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Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
7.6
21 Ratings
8% below category average
SessionM
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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
SessionM
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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
SessionM
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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
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User Ratings
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSessionM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(21 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(21 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSessionM
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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SessionM
SessionM is ideal for enterprise restaurants, brands, and organizations to build and drive loyal behaviors via technology platforms. They've built their system via robust APIs integrations, but are now diving into a white label app system that allows smaller brands (100 units+) to utilize their incredible technology in their own brand, as opposed to just bigger players. They're the best at what they do.
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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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SessionM
  • Using data science to determine guest tendencies and actions: their system is incredibly smart and tracks historical actions to guess/estimate future actions, and creating programs to influence those actions.
  • Integrated communication platforms to speak to all of our guests within various tactics—email, push notifications, text messages, in-app messages, etc.
  • Loyalty management & CRM: creating and managing a program that runs consistently across the system.
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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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SessionM
  • Some improvement could be made on their integrations process with all platforms (olo, monkey media, etc.).
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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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SessionM
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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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SessionM
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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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SessionM
SessionM was light years ahead of Fishbowl, in the data science tendency assumptions that are built into the system, plus they don't offer an app for your brand to use. You'd have to employ a 3rd vendor to manage that. It's also important to note that SessionM sees ALL guests and POS content in the system, not just loyalty identified transactions.
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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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SessionM
  • Our work with SessionM has been so incredibly impactful to our brand loyal guests, and the value they bring to our brand. For example, our loyal guests are worth $100+ more than our non-loyalty guests.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Real-Time CDP Screenshots

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