Ensighten Manage

Overview
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Ensighten Manage
Score 6.8 out of 10
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Ensighten Manage is a popular tag management system used globally, promising to increase page loading speed, accelerate tag deployment, and facilitate omnichannel 1:1 customer engagement across platforms and devices. Ensighten provides tag control by visitor, session, and page, and harmonizes data collection. The company’s Tag Delivery Network serves billions of tags annually for familiar brands like Sony, Staples, Symantec, T-Mobile, and United Airlines.N/A
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Ensighten Manage
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Ensighten Manage
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Ensighten Manage
Chose Ensighten Manage
Ensighten Manage has improved performance and data QA capabilities, preventing errors, page load time impact and less breakage.
Chose Ensighten Manage
We were asked to evaluate Ensighten against GTM and have determined that GTM does not provide the required features that we currently use with Ensighten. Specifically things like vanity URL redirects, tag sequencing, helper frameworks. GTM also does not provide as extensive …
Chose Ensighten Manage
I have only used adobe tag manager which lacked many of the features Ensighten has baked in.
Chose Ensighten Manage
Ensighten Manage has more tagging functionality, facilitating multiple tagging technologies, while Google Tag Manager (GTM) supports only Google Analytics. It has better security configuration, with custom role definitions that can define more detailed access characteristics. …
Chose Ensighten Manage
We were one of the early adopters of Ensighten and selected them since they had a really good UI and an easy way to implement tags back when TMS were relatively new.
Chose Ensighten Manage
  • Flexibility of entitlement
  • Ease of use
  • Improvement of page load times
Chose Ensighten Manage
We've used Ensighten Tag Management since 2013 - before this, we used Adobe's out of the box dynamic tagging solution. Since Ensighten is a purpose-built tool, it provides a great deal more flexibility than that of Adobe. Rule-drived spaces and conditions were not available in …
Chose Ensighten Manage
We did not compare to any other companies, Ensighten was bought without any due diligence being completed, which I raised as an issue when we first got Ensighten but it was too late at this point.
Chose Ensighten Manage
Tagman is the previous platform offered by ensighten. The updated version of their tooling has been a large step forward in flexibility and management of our tagging architecture.
Chose Ensighten Manage
Ensighten had more flexibility at the time of installation with all of our tags, and wasn't just for analytics
Chose Ensighten Manage
We chose (and have stayed) with Ensighten over their competitors because they are tag agnostic and offer great support every step of the way. While other tag managers may have strengths over Ensighten in a particular feature or tag type, Manage is a great overall solution that …
Chose Ensighten Manage
Ensighten Manage offered more reporting options at the time.
Chose Ensighten Manage
Ensighten Manage has better enterprise level management, where you can manage deployments across multiple sites with ease. Ensighten Manage also has better customer service than TagMan had, and is less complex to implement than Tealium.
Chose Ensighten Manage
Tealium seems like it has better support but is more costly.
Chose Ensighten Manage
It was an easy choice...more features, great support, market leader, easy & intuitive.
Chose Ensighten Manage
The products are comparable. Each has strengths and weaknesses. At the end of the day their job is to fire tags and they both do that well.
Chose Ensighten Manage
We also evaluated Tealium. We decided to use Ensighten because of the higher level of code compatibility with Adobe and their consultants are very familiar with Adobe deployment.
Chose Ensighten Manage
I did not select Ensighten, some one else did .....

Chose Ensighten Manage
I have no means for comparison except to say that Manage 2.0 has many improvements from Manage 1.0. The UI improvements alone make it a good switch, and the ability to use the apps to templatize deployments is a great feature.
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Features
Ensighten Manage
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Ensighten Manage
7.6
22 Ratings
12% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.622 Ratings
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Ensighten Manage
7.7
23 Ratings
4% below category average
Tag library9.421 Ratings
Tag variable mapping7.220 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.423 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.321 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring7.718 Ratings
Page load times8.420 Ratings
Mobile app tagging5.48 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions8.612 Ratings
Data Management & Integrity
Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Product A and Product B
Ensighten Manage
7.5
20 Ratings
10% below category average
Event tracking7.216 Ratings
Mobile event tracking6.910 Ratings
Data distribution management7.815 Ratings
Universal data layer8.020 Ratings
Automated error checking7.717 Ratings
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Small Businesses
Google Tag Manager
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Google Tag Manager
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Tealium Customer Data Hub
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User Ratings
Ensighten Manage
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(27 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(4 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.5
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Ensighten Manage
Likelihood to Recommend
Ensighten
Ensighten manage can be setup to be used by non technical business users. However the product provides a lot of flexibility by the way of custom custom Javascript and HTML tags, and advanced features like events, which needs coding experience as well as understanding of web technologies. Ensighten mobile is also a promising tool, but so far we have not had any luck setting it up, mainly due to challenges with Android setup
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Pros
Ensighten
  • Supports typical software development life cycle (SDLC) process by facilitating DEV, QA and PROD deployment stages through spaces.
  • Roles and security can be thoroughly defined.
  • Very good selection of tagging technologies.
  • Site is stable, no availability concerns.
  • GUI in general is straightforward.
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Cons
Ensighten
  • While the code templates that are already existent provide an easy interface to leverage existing code sets, custom codes still need to be written a lot of times since the templatized versions apply them to a global scope only and not for individual URLs or regex's for specific use cases for pixel vendors. Also, the library needs to be updated more frequently with new pixel vendors injecting their own variations of codes
  • Professional services (both the shared and dedicated model) definitely needs a lot of improvement since this is something that we have been immensely challenged with as a client of Ensighten in general. General response times and availability of support hours both from an account management standpoint and professional services/support standpoint have been quite challenging in the past year or two and there has been no real progress on this front
  • Ensighten Manage uses its own best practices to modify certain code sets from say JavaScript to Jquery for instance as it may be more compatible within its platform. This needs to change so that the tool is more nimble, agile and flexible in accepting and executing on different vendor codes
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Likelihood to Renew
Ensighten
For the volume of tracking pixels that we plan to implement it only makes sense for us to continue. At this point, development is benefiting significantly from not being bogged down with writing tracking pixel code and the marketing team(s) enjoy being able to stay connected to their tool deployments. As the portfolio of tracking methods increases, the usage of Ensighten will increase with it.
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Usability
Ensighten
The GUI looks professional and is overall very usable. Menu and buttons are laid out well and easy to view. Wizard-like tag configuration is pleasant. Color scheme is pleasant to view, lacking fatiguing colors. Page load progress indicator is reassuring. Filters on past-visited screens are remembered, very handy. Filter options are flexible.
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Support Rating
Ensighten
The Ensighten Manage support team has been helpful and dedicated to assisting us solve problems that come up with tag deployments even when the issues are completely unrelated to the core Manage product itself. They seem to have the right mix of tag-specific subject matter experts and general support resources.
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Implementation Rating
Ensighten
Ensighten is a great tool, and as good as any in the industry with strong workflow capabilities, an admin API and a friendly interface. It does have some limitations and is not entirely "marketer friendly" as they claim. Also, note we've experienced some performance/load time issues with the Ensighten data layer, which we are addressing with them.
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Alternatives Considered
Ensighten
We've used Ensighten Tag Management since 2013 - before this, we used Adobe's out of the box dynamic tagging solution. Since Ensighten is a purpose-built tool, it provides a great deal more flexibility than that of Adobe. Rule-drived spaces and conditions were not available in Adobe's tag container. Ensighten's visual tagger is unique in its ability to place MBOXes on the page for A/B testing. Finally, mobile tagging is simply not possible without going through the release process, which Ensighten has freed us from
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Return on Investment
Ensighten
  • Increased complexity when debugging so bug are taking longer to fix when they are related to Ensighten
  • Our sites are loading about 10 seconds faster and have opened our eyes as to how much javascript we are rendering onto our sites which is no longer needed.
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