Likelihood to Recommend Very appropriate for managing an ELT stack -- Alooma handles the 'E' and 'L' pieces very well. Due to the way transformation is setup, it is more on the lightweight side of things and thus works for this kind of stack. For more traditional ETL stacks, Alooma would probably not be the right fit.
Read full review TrustArc is well suited for a small-to-medium sized digital organization that is concerned about its ability to fulfill data privacy requirements. TrustArc offers an API integration to allow users to handle a larger volume of requests, but I don't have personal experience with this feature. It is a requirement that a cross-functional data privacy team be established in your organization to get the most use out of this product.
Read full review Pros Transformation of data before entering the data warehouse -- allows for a consistent/understandable schema for analytics teams. Adding of additional data sources: Alooma has a large library of pre-built, common 3rd party vendors for which data is often needed to be ETL-ed. Read full review Email verification Frontend UI Flexible configurations Easy-to-follow audit trail - each step of the process is clearly defined Integrated process flow - all communication back to data subject is handled through TrustArc Read full review Cons More tools on managing the data warehouse itself. Although great on the ingest and transformation of data, more help provided by the tool on managing the outputs would be welcome. Increase possibilities in the transformation step, rather than single event transformations. Read full review Notification schemes - allowing different access levels to be notified when certain processes occur Two-factor authentication upon login is a desirable feature not implemented Standardized reporting on home dashboard Read full review Alternatives Considered Haven't used the alternatives, since Alooma was one of the earlier ones to the market. From a cursory viewing, however, the features seem to match relatively similarly.
Read full review OneTrust offers a similar product offering to TrustArc. Our organization had a legacy relationship with TrustArc with respect to its online cookie management preference solution.
OneTrust product offerings do provide much of the same functionality as TrustArc and is worthy of consideration if you are evaluating vendors in this space.
Read full review Return on Investment Allowing for additional data sources to more automation capability around monitoring the business is a huge ROI Read full review Allow organization to be compliant with data privacy laws is a requirement in 2021 Flexible offering allows for control of both digital (cookie) and database record requests Sunk cost - organization requires this type of program, TrustArc is an established vendor in this space Read full review ScreenShots