Amazon Personalize vs. SmartFocus, now part of Actito

Well suited for vast business needs, Less suitable when planning for small limited business requirements. However, if the business is vast & the business requirements become vast, its easy to comprehend with Amazon Personalize, as most of the functions would be pre-built & as users, we can customize to our needs to meet business demands.

Incentivized

Before we used SmartFocus we had a simple bespoke drag and drop builder, where we could add as many "templates" as we wanted. In SmartFocus, the drag and drop builder is smoother and better, but you can't add your own templates. If you are happy with the provided templates, then building newsletters will be really good experience.

Incentivized

• Ingest virtually unlimited quantities of transactional data.
• Provide world-class training capabilities.
• Provide a free-tier to start your project.

Incentivized

• Push newsletters to customers
• Managing campaigns
• Drag and drop builder

Incentivized

• Repetitive Recommendations.
• Needs to improve the search speed.
• Costly to purchase.

Incentivized

• Drag and drop builder
• 2-factor authentication
• Internal integration (the system is too big for an average user what make it hard to use sometimes)
• Image gallery reliability

Incentivized

Easy to integrate with existing applications, Easy to personalize for new users, Batch deploy, good recommendations and good suggestions based on current requirements, business goals get easy prioritized based on user needs and recommendations, it can work with existing tools and easily adapt the details and requirements from the existing tools.

Incentivized

We need a service where we can have support when necessary and a system that will handle a high amount of campaigns, with the functionality where even a junior member of the team can create a campaign from assets provided by the graphic team. SmartFocus has that.

Incentivized

• We managed to analyze huge amounts of data from transactional records.
• We produced 5 different user/profile segments for our marketing team.
• We learned how to power marketing predictions using machine learning.

Incentivized

• By using Smart Focus we massively cut the cost of creating a new e-mail campaign
• On the other hand, the cost of SmartFocus is much higher than a competitor

Incentivized