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    Ensighten Manage

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AEnsighten 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

    IBM watsonx.data

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AWatsonx.data is presented as an open, hybrid and governed data store that makes it possible for enterprises to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture, supported by querying, governance and open data formats to access and share data.N/A
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    Ensighten ManageIBM watsonx.data
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    Free Trial
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Ensighten ManageIBM watsonx.data
    Considered Both Products
    Ensighten
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    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Ensighten ManageIBM watsonx.data
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Ensighten Manage and IBM watsonx.data
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.6
    22 Ratings
    10% below category average
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    Role-based user permissions7.622 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Ensighten Manage and IBM watsonx.data
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    Ensighten Manage
    7.7
    23 Ratings
    5% below category average
    IBM watsonx.data
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    Tag library9.421 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping7.220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags7.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution7.321 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring7.718 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page load times8.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging5.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions8.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Management & Integrity
    Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Ensighten Manage and IBM watsonx.data
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.5
    20 Ratings
    8% below category average
    IBM watsonx.data
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    Event tracking7.216 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile event tracking6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data distribution management7.815 Ratings00 Ratings
    Universal data layer8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated error checking7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ensighten ManageIBM watsonx.data
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (27 ratings)
    8.2
    (34 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
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    8.0
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    Availability
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    8.2
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    Performance
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    8.2
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    9.1
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    Online Training
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    8.2
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    Implementation Rating
    6.5
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
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    Configurability
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    8.2
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    Ease of integration
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    7.3
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    Product Scalability
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    7.3
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    8.2
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Ensighten ManageIBM watsonx.data
    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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    IBM
    Real-time transaction processing (both reads and writes) is where DataStax Enterprise shines. It's very fast with linear scalability should more resources be needed. Additional nodes are added very easily. DataStax Enterprise on its own (without Solr or Spark enabled) isn't well suited for long complicated reports. The data model doesn't support joining multiple tables together which is common in BI reporting.
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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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    IBM
    • Datastax Cassandra provides high availability and good performance for a database. It is built on top of open source Apache Cassandra so you can always somewhat understand the internal functioning and why.
    • Datastax Cassandra is fairly simple to start using, you can install/setup your cluster and be productive in 1 day.
    • Datastax Cassandra provides a lot of good detailed documentation, and when starting, the detailed free videos on the Datastax site and documentation are very helpful.
    • Datastax Enterprise Edition of Cassandra provides more tools, good support, and quick response SLA for enterprise business support.
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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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    IBM
    • Interface do need some improvement to be more intuitive for analysts like me.
    • Configuring multiple data sources can require support, as it isn't easy for new users. So, it can be made easier.
    • Additional ETL features can be added, so users don't have to switch between tools.
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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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    IBM
    As an open source technology Cassandra can be readily used with or without any commercial support. DataStax provides value-added services and features, and in the end it is up to individual situations to strike a balance between the desirability of such support/service versus the associated cost.
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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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    IBM
    DataStax has a good community built around it and has amazing scalability options. Though the initial setup is a bit costly, in the long run, it makes up for it. It also has powerful monitoring tools and a clean UI.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ensighten
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    IBM
    good recovery features
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    Performance
    Ensighten
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    IBM
    scalable product
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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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    IBM
    We have had a few situations where we caused an outage or something has gone wrong and we are able to get a support person to offer live help within minutes. The escalation process is excellent - the best I've seen - and the support team is incredibly strong. Outside of emergencies, the team is very helpful with general questions and working through data model exercises and the subscription I believe still comes with some hours to help get the data model reviewed.
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    Online Training
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    IBM
    easy to follow documentation, support is there when needed
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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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    IBM
    use saas service
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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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    IBM
    Claude is better for troubleshooting actual OPS/REXX but that's not an IBM product so I understand why IBM watsonx.data isn't great for that, but if IBM watsonx.data did help with code then it would be the only product that I use.
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    Scalability
    Ensighten
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    IBM
    cognos integration works great
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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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    IBM
    • for one automation project, we managed to cut cloud storage costs by a third through IBM watsonx.data's lakehouse optimization
    • data integration projects have had a 20 % reduction in turnaround times. Can only imagine how that will improve with the Claude partnership
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