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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    APSIS Pro

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAPSIS Pro is an email marketing solution that drives measurable ROI through personalized emails and organized workflows.N/A

    Braze

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and brands. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns.N/A
    Pricing
    APSIS ProBraze
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    APSIS ProBraze
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    APSIS ProBraze
    Considered Both Products
    APSIS International AB
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    Braze
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    119 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    158 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    91 Answers
    Features
    APSIS ProBraze
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of APSIS Pro and Braze
    Feature
    APSIS Pro
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of APSIS Pro and Braze
    Feature
    APSIS Pro
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    154% below category average
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.4 out of 10
    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    APSIS ProBraze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (162 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (129 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    APSIS ProBraze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    APSIS International AB
    Works well, relatively easy to use - but lacks some up-to-date and modern features as well as look and feel. The support provided is OK but not world class. It is too bad as APSIS as a company is quite good at inspiring and providing insights into trends in email marketing.
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    Braze
    If you're looking for a reliable, automated system to run customer feedback programme like the NPS, Braze offers possibly the best platform to operate such kind of a campaign. In addition, if you are looking to build email campaigns for existing clients with the goal of retention or relationship-building, Braze offers much better email delivery and engagement rates.
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    Pros
    APSIS International AB
    • We have a pre-designed template and pre-build elements and thus it is quite easy to compose nice looking newsletters.
    • Doing split-tests on subject, clicks etc. is quite easy and requires no tech help.
    • Imporing new contacts and adding to the list is straight forward.
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    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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    Cons
    APSIS International AB
    • The user interface is not good. Too much scrolling and too many menues to navigate. Half of the pages are updated to a "new" look with the rest still being the (really) old design. This badly needs a make-over.
    • There is no one-click "send reminder to those who did not open". To send reminders, it is nescessary to build a filter a do a new send using the filter. Such a simple and often repeated task should be automated.
    • It is not possible to add a "Why did you leave us?"-page for opt-outs... Really misses this.
    • The statistics are too limited and to difficult to use - mostly due to the UI design as described above.
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    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Likelihood to Renew
    APSIS International AB
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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    Usability
    APSIS International AB
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    From my experience thus far, Braze is able to deeply integrate into a variety of tools and I haven't found a use case where Braze cannot offer a solution to an integration requirement. Integrations have been very easy to setup and developers have been able to manage and upgrade these seamlessly.
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    Support Rating
    APSIS International AB
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    Online Training
    APSIS International AB
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    It's really well explained, there are lots of documentation about all topics. When we want to perform in a specific area, there are always a dedicated path. For each new feature, there is always some videos explaining the purpose and the new functionalities. Also I used to do the certification which allows me to show my achievements in my business environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    APSIS International AB
    MailChimp offers more flexibilty but also seems a bit more complicated to use. We did not use it long enough to really get an idea of the positive and negative.
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    Braze
    Braze is a cross-channel and data-driven tool. It is much more intuitive and easier to use. It supports a high volume of sending. Braze team provides excellent follow-up and support, and we are part of a large community of clients who share knowledge and help.
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    Return on Investment
    APSIS International AB
    • We are still trying to figure out how to use this medium for sales. We have had some success with Black Monday sales, but in general we do not have much response to our emails.
    • We have increases our visibility with our customers by making sure to land in their mailbox regulary with nice looking messages.
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    Braze
    • We saved a couple of million by switching from Salesforce to Braze.
    • We increased our engagement for a limited-time promo by 33% by simply running a 4-variant subject line test.
    • We managed to reduce our unsubscribe volume by 18% by excluding dormant users.
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