Adobe Target vs. Pega Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Target
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Adobe 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
Pega Platform
Score 5.9 out of 10
N/A
Pega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Pricing
Adobe TargetPega Platform
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Low-code Factory Edition
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Standard Edition
$90
per month per user* (or $0.80 per case**)
Enterprise Edition
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe TargetPega Platform
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details*500 named user minimum. Additional users available in blocks of 100. Billed annually. Based on a 3-year term. **350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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Community Pulse
Adobe TargetPega Platform
Considered Both Products
Adobe Target

No answer on this topic

Pega Platform
Chose Pega Platform
Cheaper than TIBCO and has a better front-end as compared to TIBCO.
Cheaper than Salesforce when the target audience is the internal customers like call center agents and claim specialists.
Chose Pega Platform
Pega has more customer's recent interaction/lifecycle base.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Adobe TargetPega Platform
Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.1
9 Ratings
6% below category average
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
a/b experiment testing8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Split URL testing8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Multivariate testing8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing7.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app testing8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Test significance7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced code editor8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Page surveys7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Visitor recordings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Preview mode8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Test duration calculator8.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment scheduler8.19 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Client-side tests8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Server-side tests7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.4
9 Ratings
5% below category average
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.1
9 Ratings
5% below category average
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
Heatmap tool8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Form fill analysis8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Test reporting8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Results segmentation8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
CSV export7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
8.7
62 Ratings
7% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.061 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.661 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.660 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
8.7
64 Ratings
3% above category average
Process designer00 Ratings9.463 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings9.655 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings9.663 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings7.049 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings9.447 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings9.658 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings9.854 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
8.0
49 Ratings
2% below category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
4.4
9 Ratings
60% below category average
Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe TargetPega Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
6.8
(36 ratings)
4.4
(72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.3
(24 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
1.1
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
6.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.5
(9 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.1
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe TargetPega Platform
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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Pegasystems
Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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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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Pegasystems
  • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
  • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
  • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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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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Pegasystems
  • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
  • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
  • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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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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Pegasystems
Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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Usability
Adobe
Can be difficult to learn, but once you understand Mboxes and the nuances of the system it's very user friendly
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Pegasystems
Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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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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Pegasystems
No answers on this topic
Performance
Adobe
The bottleneck is never the software program
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Pegasystems
No answers on this topic
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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Pegasystems
It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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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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Pegasystems
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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Pegasystems
The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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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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Pegasystems
Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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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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Pegasystems
We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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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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Pegasystems
  • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
  • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
  • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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