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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Target

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management products.N/A

    Airship

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AThe Airship Experience Platform provides an end-to-end solution for unifying experiences across channels and capturing value across the entire customer lifecycle.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe TargetAirship
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe TargetAirship
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe TargetAirship
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    47%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Adobe TargetAirship
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Adobe Target and Airship
    Feature
    Adobe Target
    8.0
    18 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Airship
    -
    Ratings
    a/b experiment testing9.318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Split URL testing8.717 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multivariate testing7.817 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app testing8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test significance8.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced code editor6.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page surveys8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visitor recordings8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Preview mode8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test duration calculator7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler8.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation7.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Client-side tests7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server-side tests7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Adobe Target and Airship
    Feature
    Adobe Target
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Airship
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control8.418 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization9.216 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Adobe Target and Airship
    Feature
    Adobe Target
    8.0
    18 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Airship
    -
    Ratings
    Heatmap tool7.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics7.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis8.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking8.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking8.117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results segmentation8.216 Ratings00 Ratings
    CSV export8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard7.218 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Adobe TargetAirship
    Small Businesses
    Google Optimize
    Score6.7 out of 10
    EZ Texting
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Wingify Experimentation (formerly AB Tasty)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Attentive
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe TargetAirship
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (46 ratings)
    8.9
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.3
    (24 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (14 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    6.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.5
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe TargetAirship
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    If you're using the Adobe stack and tools to power your website, Target is a great solution to implement. I've utilized Target within two organizations, one running on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and the other on Adobe Magento. I don't see how companies could harness the full capacity of Target without also having Adobe Analytics integrated. This is their 'secret sauce' and might not be a good solution for companies who are invested in Google Analytics 360. Integration was straightforward but did require support from the Adobe team to implement successfully. While Target is a great tool for digital teams to support, you'll need your tech team aligned and available to support implementation.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    Well-Suited for: 1. Mobile App Notifications: Ideal for targeted push notifications in apps. 2. Customer Segmentation: Effective for personalized marketing campaigns based on user data. 3. Event-Triggered Automation: Great for automated messaging based on user actions. 4. A/B Testing: Useful for optimizing campaign messages and strategies. Less Appropriate for: 1. Non-Mobile Channels: Less effective if the primary focus is on non-mobile communications like email or direct mail. 2. Basic Email Marketing: Other platforms might be better suited for simple, broad email campaigns without complex segmentation or personalization needs.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • This application gives us an incredible integration with Adobe Analytics that allows its operation to be the best and determine the performance of our website.
    • It offers us an analysis based on user behavior and a web page customization option to adapt and meet the needs of those users.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    • The marketing push notifications are very effective, and it gives us free hand to define different business criteria to target user groups
    • The user experience or the message content could differ from Android and iOS, and this is a huge benefit for us
    • As an Architect, troubleshooting an issue is very detailed and the time it takes to troubleshoot an issue is considerably less from our previous product
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • This is something a lot of testing tools struggle with, but I think the WYSIWYG ("What you see is what you get") editor - or Visual Experience Composer (VEC) in Adobe terminology - could definitely use some work. It's a struggle to execute many tests beyond simple copy, color, placement changes, and even the features that do exist are often clunky if not altogether broken.
    • The interface itself can be a bit counterintuitive in certain parts. If you are familiar with other tools, it's likely middle of the road in this respect; think much easier to understand than Monetate for instance, but a far cry from the simplicity of an Optimizely.
    • It can be a bit buggy from time to time. The worst example is the frequency at which the tool will fail to save due to an error, but not inform you of this until you try to save, at which point your only option is to log out, log back in, and make all of your updates once again. It can become an extreme pain point at times, and I personally have just gotten into the habit of saving every couple of minutes to avoid a massive loss of productivity.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    • The automated A/B testing winner selection and application should be added
    • The flexibility of message shape, specifically incorporating transparency so messages do not need to be a rectangular shape
    • Faster and more reliable servers around the globe
    • Making more detailed use cases and tutorials to be followed can simplify things for users
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We have a team of people trained on how to use the application and it integrates well with the other Adobe products we use. Our future roadmap of testing will require some complex scenarios which we hope Target will be able to accomplish
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
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    Usability
    Adobe
    The recent UI update is a complete mess. It is difficult to navigate and find features that previously existed. The reactiveness of the page depending on window size is also ridiculous and it is absurd that depending on how large your window is, entire columns of functions will disappear with no indication that they are missing. The usability of the tool has fallen off a cliff.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    The interface takes a bit getting used to in order to know how to take advantage of everything. Some of the analytics that are available are particularly hard to find, so it's important to pay attention when customer support reviews everything, but everything I'd want and need in terms of Push and In-App messaging is all there.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    i don't think we use the full functionalities of the tool, but to use the full functions, it's almost impossible (Too hard)
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Adobe
    The bottleneck is never the software program
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    On several occasions, we have had the need to ask for help from the Adobe Target support team, and I must say that they have provided us with an excellent experience, as they take care of solving the problems quickly and with high precision
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    I have not had to interact much with customer support as I have been able to find the vast majority of the answers I'm looking for within their documentation, which I very much appreciate because it saves me a lot of time. Customer support has been responsive and helpful for the most part during the couple of interactions I've had.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    The instructor that came to train us was awesome and this training was very useful. I would recommend it for anyone who is going to be using this software. I only mark it lower because it is an added expense to an already expensive product, and a lot of the training covered the "Target" portion of the software (which again, we didn't use)
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Adobe
    The training was very easy to understand, however it would have been more useful to my development team than me. It was also primarily over-the-phone, which is never as easy to follow as in-person. We ended up scheduling and paying for an in-person training session to supplement the online/phone training because it wasn't helpful enough.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Implement using a global mBox on the page so you can change any and everything over the traditional method. Traditional method is good if you do not have technical web dev resources, do not know Javascript/jQuery, or you have money to blow on mBox calls. Global deployment reduces mBox calls and allows you to touch many parts of the page easily. A lot more customizable
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    We seriously considered another software but because we use so many other Adobe products this made the most sense for us. If you are not dependent on other Adobe software and are a smaller company, in my opinion, Target may not be the best fit.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    We've tested a bunch of different CRM tools over the years and Airship has been a winner for its functionality, features, cost, and ability to integrate with other softwares that we use. It has been great for SMS and mobile in particular. It could certainly be a one stop shop for CRM.
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • We have been able to run specific A/B tests that have shown an increase in conversion, which in turn has led to very large banked sales numbers for the year.
    • We have been able to prove that using and automated Merchandising process did not decrease conversion. This allowed us to greatly increase efficiency by opening up resource time.
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    Airship (formerly Urban Airship)
    • The ROI has increased more than approx. 50% (exact details to be confirmed) based on cross-channel orchestration
    • Using push notifications alone, we have seen a huge increase in app engagement which was a challenge before to nudge users to get back to the App after initial download
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