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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Folloze

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Folloze is an marketing orchestration platform that enables B2B marketing and sales teams to deliver personalized, data-driven buyer experiences across the entire customer journey. The platform supports use cases including ABM/ABX campaigns, digital sales rooms, website personalization, sales development, and event activation.N/A

    HCL Unica

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHCL Unica is available as a cloud or on-premise solution that provides fully integrated marketing automation software for enterprise. It includes enterprise marketing automation tools that optimize marketing activities, to ensure excellent customer experiences and data privacy.N/A
    Pricing
    FollozeHCL Unica
    Editions & Modules
    Folloze
    Contact Sales
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FollozeHCL Unica
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
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    Community Pulse
    FollozeHCL Unica
    Considered Both Products
    Folloze
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    HCLSoftware
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    46 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    FollozeHCL Unica
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    7.7
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Syndicated content7.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalization8.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement data tracking7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    3% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising7.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising7.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad reporting and analytics7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    4% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM sales intelligence7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    6.8
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    3rd party intent signals6.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals7.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account identification6.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM Integrations
    Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    7.5
    9 Ratings
    0% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Automated workflow & orchestration7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.6
    3 Ratings
    21% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Folloze and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Folloze
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.6
    2 Ratings
    23% above category average
    API00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FollozeHCL Unica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (49 ratings)
    10.0
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (49 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (41 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FollozeHCL Unica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Folloze
    I have been using Folloze for a long time, and I will recommend Folloze because of the app's user-friendly interface and responsiveness to customer feedback. It also enhances security with SSO, two-factor authentication, and a personalization tool. Overall, there are more pros, and it increases productivity.
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    I think it is wel suited for a business with a lot of one on one relations in the database. For example a supermarket that sells products to a client and gives a reduction on that product. It is nice if the selection process is not to complex and does not involve to many calculations. It is also nice if it is very clear what you want to follow up. In our environment we have lots of many-to-many relations. for example one product is held by more then one client. And that client might have more of those products with other clients. These kind of situation demands for a lot of calculations with derived fields(*), and there things go far too slow. Unica is probably not such a good solution for us, because our environment is too complex, and so is to process of creating the selection, we often have to change things in the selection flows. Because of the complexity it is difficult to see what the flow is exactly doing afterwoods, it also takes to much time to modify existing campaigns. The interface is not handy to work with, if you have long lists of variables, of tables or derived fields(*) you have to scroll through trough them, you can not really search them or reorder them. You can not drag and drop fields or other objects like derived fields in the flow, what would be easy if you have to make frequent changes to the proces flow. When you copy objects something the content of the object changes because the links with other objects or lost. (*) derived field: field to calculate something
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    Pros
    Folloze
    • Plug into Salesforce. We live in Salesforce, so it's a must!
    • Ease of use when designing boards. We love to all feel like graphic designers.
    • Dashboards showing activity levels of all types.
    • Storing assets within folloze. Makes it super easy to build a board fast.
    • Cloning boards. Time saver!!
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    • Ability to translate Multiple SQL queries into a very easy to use visual GUI.
    • Provides the ability to pre-define segments, run them once in off hours, store them in their own system tables for quick youth and a significant reduction in CPU utilization on the database.
    • It’s use of Reusable objects. Including user variables to pre-define calculations one time, macros that you can create and pass values to parameterize the SQL code And the creation of templates to easily replicate work.
    • It’s ability to bring in external data on the fly that can very easily be mapped into any flowchart.
    • It’s flexibility and creating UNIX script via triggers to automate sending of files to multiple vendors with different FTP sites
    • It’s flexibility in the output layouts that it can create.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Folloze
    • Integrating the contact form with our CRM has been a lengthy and on-going process
    • We use iframe for some of our content pieces and I think it could look better than it does now
    • We need licenses for our salespeople for them to get access to insights of a board. An easier way to send them this info without them needing licenses would be nice
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    • Greater integration of real time (Interact) capabilities with outbound channels, in particular IBM eMessage Email & SMS delivery.
    • Additional outbound channels to be integrated into eMessage, including Facebook Fanpage & Twitter DM broadcasts. At the moment these are possible only through custom additional integration.
    • Support for additional marketing database technology, e.g. MySQL, Exasol, ParAccel, WX2.
    • Provision of database technology with software purchase, as Web technology (IBM WebSphere Express) is supplied for free, but no database is supplied - since IBM also market DB2, which is a supported technology it seems a shame.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Folloze
    Without Folloze, the marketing team would not be able to pivot as quickly as we do to support sellers with deal acceleration and drive executive engagement.
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    There are three main factors to renew a licence: 1) Cost to migrate to another platform would be rather expensive and time consuming, plus the requirement of retraining employees to use a new tool 2) It has been proven time and time again that it is a market leader in the space (10 years +) 3) It can be built upon, with the addition of additional IBM EMM modules - despite theories it does have very strong digital capabilities.
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    Usability
    Folloze
    Its great to be able to customize and build experiences without having to depend web developers or larger content teams. Using Folloze doesn't require a web developer or complicated coding language. Its quite intuitive and easy to figure out after building an experience or two. If you are stuck their support and training materials are quite helpful, as is their support team. Although the tool is great, it would be great to see even more customization possibilities. Also the reporting interface is pretty cumbersome and would benefit from added functionality.
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    HCLSoftware
    Unica provides functionality that is very simple and easy to use. For reporting, we can see Unica system tables. Contact history table, response history tables. We have all the information in one place. Performance-wise, Unica also handles large volumes of data and can run a 5-million-record campaign within minutes. This is something great.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Folloze
    sometimes its not loading pages proper, sometimes some functions are not working within or you need a long time to find out image sizes etc
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Folloze
    pages load slow sometimes
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Folloze
    Great support overall, which is quick to answer any concerns or questions. They're punctual and precise with their responses. I've been very pleased overall. I know if I have a concern or worry that I'll get a response the same day or the day after. Nothing negative comes to mind.
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    I didn't use the Unica support since it is with IBM, only before.
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    Online Training
    Folloze
    5 as we did it with our own people in house and not with Folloze
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Folloze
    I was not involved with the implementation of Folloze. This project was executed before I was hired
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    - We had to rebuild a part of the datamart afterwards to tighten up and simplify the selection process. But as it was too time consuming to rebuild all the existing campaigns, we no run campaigns on different versions of the datamart. - The response tracking of the campaigns never worked out well, it was impossible to implement a direct response where there is a link between the lead and the response in our operational process
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    Alternatives Considered
    Folloze
    Folloze has proven to absolutely stand head and shoulders above its competitors. Folloze actually integrates nicely with 6Sense or Demandbase to pull data from a CRM. Folloze seemed to have a simpler interface, and that was key when it came to enabling our sales org to use Folloze alongside Marketing.
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    The contact history and the response history are so powerful. You can track whatever you want to help the call center to push relevant offers to our customer. In addition, predictive models can be built, with patience, in IBM Campaign. If you have some complaints from the call center about any campaigns, you can easily validate it into the contact or response history.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Folloze
    cannot disclose
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Folloze
    there are still a lot of things that need to be made available within the product
    Incentivized
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    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Folloze
    • A sales were able to give valuable presentations which aided in earning key accounts in O&G & utility industries.
    • A sales exec was able to close a million-dollar sale that she had been working on closing for a year. This board was a great visual to the customer, which helped in closing.
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    HCLSoftware
    • It helps my clients drive their business which in turn, drives more profit for them.
    • It helps my clients determine what works, and what doesn't work, in terms of their social marketing campaigns.
    • It helps navigate proper budgeting through determining what clients' users respond to, and what they find unique.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Folloze Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Folloze Buyer Experience Platform.

Folloze harnesses buyer insights, sales orchestration and AI to empower sales and marketing teams. It is used to create personalized experiences and micro-targeted campaigns that engages today’s B2B buyer across the entire customer journey.Screenshot of Collaborative Marketing and Sales motions.

Folloze provides a ‘closed loop’ orchestration process to target, orchestrate, personalize and measure tailored account experiences. These micro-targeted campaigns increase engagement to impact revenue across the customer lifecycle.Screenshot of Folloze page views, opens and clicks.

Folloze produces insights that measure a target customers’ interest in offerings, such as number and duration of content views, forwarding or sharing, call-to-action executions, which ones they share with colleagues – for each and every asset they engage with throughout their journey.Screenshot of The interface to build microsites and landing pages.

B2B marketer can launch sophisticated, ‍personalized buyer journeys that let target audiences choose what relevant content interests them, without guessing what buyers will like.Screenshot of Account Engagement Analytics
Folloze analytics aggregates engagement activities by account and contact across all touchpoints. Sellers and marketing teams understand account topics of interest, can measure the impact and ROI of their account-based marketing programs, and inform campaign strategy and next best actions.Screenshot of Intelligent content nomination.

Folloze offers artificial intelligence to recommend content at both build time as well as in real-time, and automatically delivers relevant and high performing content, dynamic messaging, and specific imagery, that accounts and contacts will find valuable and engaging.

    HCL Unica Screenshots

    Screenshot of HCL Unica Deliver is the email marketing and messaging execution module of the HCL Unica platform.

Its scalable digital messaging engine helps enterprise marketers design, personalize, and send high-volume, data-driven communications across multiple customer engagement channels.

It’s built for complex and compliant omni-channel campaigns with advanced segmentation, behavioral triggers, and real-time customer data.

Key channels supported include:
• Email — for personalized bulk and trigger-based mailings.
• SMS — send text messages to mobile subscribers.
• WhatsApp — conversational and promotional messaging.
• In-app and Push notifications — mobile push alerts via apps.