Cheetah Digital Customer Engagement Suite (discontinued) vs. Iterable

I think that Cheetah is specifically well suited for personalized, relevant messaging to customers. They help provide tools to give users the ability to create campaigns that will generate positive interpretations and help move your business forward.

Incentivized

While we sometimes laugh and joke and call Iterable "irritable", the truth is that it's the best system out there for large enterprise needs. We've tested out a slew of other solutions that make a lot of big promises, but fail to deliver. That is why 7 out of 7 of my directly-controlled newsletters operate out of the Iterable platform. That said, it is the best of the best, and it isn't cheap. Smaller organizations that have small lists or haven't yet mastered monetizing their lists would have a hard time absorbing these costs and staying in the black. It's amazing, but you kind of have to "grow into it."

Incentivized

• It offers social media tracking, which is a big competitive advantage against its rivals.
• Email targeting options are better than MailChimp.
• Good price.

Incentivized

• Iterable's customer support, both through the account manager and their live chat and email responses, is great.
• The flexibility with third-party integrations made getting our project off the ground fairly simple.
• The handlebar logic that can be used within the templates was much easier to understand than on some other platforms.

Incentivized

• I would love more ability to create programmatic campaigns that follow customers on a lifecycle.
• Continue to improve the user interface to make all features more usable to their users.

Incentivized

• Some of Iterable's user interface in Journey is a little confusing. This is a personal preference.
• Their image uploading is very basic - but they are working on releasing a new version soon.
• It's difficult to look up a specific contact by only being able to search their email. I wish I could search by name without having to use segmentation

Incentivized

Extremely easy to use, deeply integrated into our infrastructure

Iterable very easy to learn and use. It's a great platform for both a new email marketer and a marketer that's been working in email for 20+ years.

Incentivized

Iterable is there like 99.9% of the time. However, when it goes down, it grinds us to a halt. Most of the time, outages are an hour or less, but if that's at a peak time, it can be a nightmare. That said, when the worst does happen, there are frequent updates and an easy situation tracker that give you an estimate of how much longer you'll have to wait for the issue to be resolved.

Incentivized

The API is super quick. The UI can be a little sluggish depending on what you're loading, but overall Iterable performs great. Iterable appears to do a good job of making processes async so that one action isn't blocking another.

Incentivized

Cheetah has never been known for its customer service and the few times I had to contact the answers I got were either incomplete or not really useful for the problem I was having at the moment. I think there is a lot of room for improvement in this aspect.

Incentivized

I've never experienced any issues with Iterable. As I and my colleagues have learnt the system and it's features, response to questions and advice from our account manager is always quick. Kevin knows the product well, and with the few tricky questions has hasn't been able to answer he's been quick to get back to us.

Incentivized

They are very comparable to each other. Cheetah is a little more user-friendly and the customer service is much better, but Responsys had more features that I liked to use.

Incentivized

The visualization tools in iterable for creating journeys are so much easier to use and adjust than in Marketo, Mailgun, or Mailjet. We have better performance metrics tracking in particular than in Mailjet or Marketo. It is also easier to see where we have made mistakes in emails and to adjust the code visually than in any of the other platforms

Incentivized

We've never run into any issues with volume. Iterable is always able to handle everything we throw at it. We utilize webhooks and emails. Both perform very well. Webhooks actually perform too quickly and downstream systems need to be able to handle the volume throughput that Iterable can send.

Incentivized

• It has raised costs due to its price, reducing ROI.
• However, we have gotten good results and great CPAs with them, improving margins.
• It has allowed us to be faster on testing, improving ROI in the long term.

Incentivized

• We have scaled subscription reactivations from a small organic trickle to targeted campaigns, allowing us to create a much higher flow of reactivation month over month
• We have scaled lead conversion into thousands of daily sign-ups through customized communication journeys
• We have saved time and costs for our engineering teams because we're able to build messaging journeys through Iterable rather than having to encode them within the product itself

Incentivized