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    Akeneo

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAkeneo is a Product Experience Management (PXM) solution from the French company of the same name, that helps merchants and brands deliver customer experiences across all sales channels, including eCommerce, mobile, print, and retail points of sale. Akeneo’s open source enterprise PIM, and product data intelligence solutions, aim to improve product data quality and accuracy while simplifying and accelerating product catalog management.N/A

    Salsify

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Salsify is designed to enable suppliers to send their product content to retailers. The solution provides a central place to create, manage and publish product information - including product attributes, marketing copy, datasheets and other files.N/A

    Uptempo

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AUptempo is marketing planning software used by enterprise marketing teams to centralize campaign and budget planning, track spending, predict and monitor performance, and pivot plans in real-time to enable marketing agility.N/A
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Akeneo
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    Salsify
    Chose Salsify
    Salsify was the clear winner when it came to a simple interface that allowed a multitude of uses for the organization. The others weren't structured in a way that we could easily allow new users in and were intimidating at the start. The syndication abilities and continual …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    AkeneoSalsifyUptempo
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    8.7
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akeneo
    It's well suited to an environment which has multiple users working on product information at the same time. For smaller organisations, it would be easy to segregate products for the different users to focus on their span of work, but this has been somewhat tricky in a multi-company environment like ours where we have different users working on the same / similar products. Overall though, we're happy with the product.
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    Salsify
    If you're looking for a tool to be able to syndicate singular products to other platforms, Salsify does well. Where it falls down a bit is when you're creating kits or bundles and trying to pass that data along to other applications. Overall, it's the best syndication platform we've found in the market.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    Although the Analytics part is already available it could be improved. So for now Allocadia is very recommended if you are looking for a data maintenance software but less appropriate as a analysis tool. Ask yourself what is it you are looking for (analysis or controlling) and for which purposes (management level or specialists). The costs are very resonable and an absolute Plus!
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    Pros
    Akeneo
    • Product Data Management
    • Product Asset Management
    • Data Quality & Consistency
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    Salsify
    • The customer service is AMAZING! They walked us through everything step by step... multiple times. They are also working with us on how to identify our goals.
    • The platform is extremely user friendly.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    • The user interface is clean, well-thought out, and easy for marketers to use. It behaves like their spreadsheets in all the right ways...without the baggage of having budgets locked into separate spreadsheets.
    • Allocadia knows that revenue attribution is important, and has great out-of-the-box adapters to flow actual spend and actual performance in to the tool.
    • The reporting engine is both substance and style. Data is accurate, can be sliced-and-diced, and is easy for marketers to get what they want in an ad hoc fashion, if a canned report does not already exist. The visuals are also excellent, which promotes the use of analysis.
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    Cons
    Akeneo
    • Product approval & multi-tier workflow for larger organisations
    • Table attributes are limiting
    • Access rights and product segmentation to user groups
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    Salsify
    • A better GUI interface
    • Better support as at times it takes a while to hear back from them
    • More user training have better efficiency on using the software
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    • Integrate the marketing department closer to the other companies departments output.
    • Connect to more markets for customer acquisition and care as well as customer satisfaction and experience enhancements.
    • We think it can get even closer to SAP Marketing Cloud at less investments and more ROI.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akeneo
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    Salsify
    The team is very helpful and the product is very useful to us.
    Incentivized
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    I am hesitant to comment on renewal in detail because we haven't been using the system for very long. But I am encouraged by the speed and ease of implementation, and look forward to getting to know the system better.
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    Usability
    Akeneo
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    Salsify
    I am only giving it a 9 because they are working on streamlining the uploading process to make things easier on our end - once this is complete I would most likely give it a 10!
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    Easy to use and allows you to track just about anything that's important to your business
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    Support Rating
    Akeneo
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    Salsify
    The team is extremely friendly and helpful. They came in for an in-house training and schedule calls to walk us through new features, etc.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
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    Implementation Rating
    Akeneo
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    Salsify
    The team at Salsify is the best to work with!!!
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akeneo
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    Salsify
    I was not directly involved in the purchase decision process to acquire Salsify as we started using it after it, but I can tell the Team decided on Salsify for a number of solid reasons including functionalities, price, integration options, and usability. Otherwise, we would have kept the older tool or decided on a different provider. Salsify took the lead as the ideal solution for us earlier this year.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    Uptempo can integrate with other helpful tools, making it so powerful in achieving tasks. The cost of licensing is relatively cheaper compared to other software. It is also more efficient and saves a lot of time. The sales team also offered us a lot of training.
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    Return on Investment
    Akeneo
    • Time to market has reduced
    • Increased efficiencies due to the reduction of duplicate work
    • Increase in data quality
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    Salsify
    • Increased the productivity of the publish process.
    • 5x products are published per partner in the same time it took earlier.
    • Product information like pricing and images can be downloaded in a click.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    • We have been able to more effectively look at our buys and see how they are performing on an ROI basis. Previously our spend data and leads were in two different places but this has allowed us to combine them.
    • We have only been in the software for five months so I think we will continue to see the ROI impact as we build out reports. Right now we're still trying to find the reports that will help us the most in our optimization.
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    Screenshot of Uptempo's Marketing & Campaign Planning interface, which provides full visibility and control over activity planning across teams and channels.Screenshot of Uptempo's Impact Modeller, which translates planned activities into projected outcomes based on conversation rate and deal velocity data.Screenshot of Uptempo's Marketing Budget Management interface, which provides the ability to plan, iterate, control, and optimize budgets.Screenshot of Uptempo's Investments interface tracks actuals and reconciles them with planned marketing spend to ensure teams stay within budgets.Screenshot of Uptempo Work & Resource Management, the a central platform that manages, controls, and optimizes workflows across the marketing team's workload.Screenshot of Uptempo Brand Management, which forms the central platform to access, adapt, and order timely, correct, and brand-compliant media for every touchpoint.