Ensighten Pulse vs. Rudderstack

Ensighten Pulse is particularly well suited to the type of work Ovative/group does in the marketing attribution space, but is also very well suited to drive the data collection efforts for personalization on-site as well. Pulse is also extremely well suited in scenarios where a client may want to track individuals across many domains or touchpoints

Rudderstack is a great platform for capturing events from various systems and tying them all together in once place. This allows you to have a holistic view of your customer and reach them through various downstream platforms. It also enables the activation of data from your data warehouse into other platforms.

Incentivized

• Pulse is the ultimate tracking tool. Almost anything you want to do with it is enabled and capable.
• Pricing for Pulse was very aggressive as an early buyer.
• The support team for Pulse is always very quick to respond and adapt their product roadmap to meet customer feedback.

• Event streams
• Reverse ETL
• Identity resolution

Incentivized

• Documentation - While Ensighten Pulse itself and the implementation process of the core components are documented rather well, the peripheral implementation steps, i.e. how to use this with a specific marketing platform, are not well documented. That said, the Ensighten support channels have been hugely beneficial in making these steps happen.

• Alerting
• Destination catalog

Incentivized

Rudderstack offers a similar core product as Segment but differentiates itself with better reverse ETL and data warehouse integrations. They are also significantly less expensive than Segment. While Segment has more downstream destinations than Rudderstack this didn't negatively impact our use case

Incentivized

• We identified over 20M impressions that should have been re-allocated due to frequency caps and have utilized our modeling to push more adaptive frequency caps by marketing message through our ad network.
• We will pilot a program where we block 'saturated' users and those exhibiting 'bot-like' behavior through our ad networks to further improve our advertising effectiveness.
• We do have a resource cost in maintaining a separate server and a systems developer to maintain our environment. Where I'd prefer to pay for a full SaaS application and utilize that resource in another area.

• Significant savings in developer resources
• Faster moving product insights

Incentivized