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    Foundry ABM

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFoundry ABM is an account based marketing platform that creates campaigns for ads, web personalization, and sales. Foundry’s proprietary database complements an organization’s first party data to provide the best data to reach, engage, and convert more stakeholders in target accounts.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
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    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Foundry ABMHCL Unica
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Foundry ABMHCL Unica
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    34 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    74%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
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    Features
    Foundry ABMHCL Unica
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Syndicated content7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalization7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement data tracking7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    7.2
    10 Ratings
    0% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation6.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising6.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad reporting and analytics7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM sales intelligence6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    3rd party intent signals7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account identification7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM Integrations
    Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    Automated workflow & orchestration8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.6
    3 Ratings
    22% 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 Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    22% 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 Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    27% 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 Foundry ABM and HCL Unica
    Feature
    Foundry ABM
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Unica
    9.6
    2 Ratings
    24% 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
    Foundry ABMHCL Unica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (48 ratings)
    10.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (40 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Foundry ABMHCL Unica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Foundry ABM
    I think it's good for companies who have a built out marketing program. I know our marketing team knows the software very well. As someone on the sales side, I struggle to understand some concepts. However they have a great support team and they help with reports that make things very easy to understand.
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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
    Foundry ABM
    • It has paved the way in creating an audience for our respective campaigns that are easy to set and customize.
    • This tool has a high configuration aspect which helps and facilitates [the business thoroughly] in their cases.
    • It helps you in interacting with any third-party websites or arbitrators for API calls and web solutions.
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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.
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    Cons
    Foundry ABM
    • The ability to separate budgets by dept. currently, you have one pot of money but can set limits based on campaigns. This is fine for a single user but gets messy with multiple users.
    • Campaigns with multiple steps, I do hear this is in the works.
    • It would be nice if each area did not open a new tab, navigating pages within the same page would be nice.
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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
    Foundry ABM
    We continue to have a good experience with Triblio, and they continue to deliver value for our money. If they would do a better job with analytics, then it'd be easier for me to tie campaign activities to the bottom line.
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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
    Foundry ABM
    The Triblio platform makes it easy for non-technical users to get around and figure out what we need relatively quickly. Of course, a basic training or tutorial is needed initially for you to know where everything is. We paid for managed services which is great since we have an account director who can operate the platform better than any outsider can, and she can also give us recommendations on best practices.
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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
    Foundry ABM
    The platform has always been available, and the occasional system updates aside, there have been no downtime issues with Triblio. The platform has always been available when I needed it, and campaigns were launched timely
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    HCLSoftware
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    Performance
    Foundry ABM
    Triblio pages, campaign performances, and platforms have not slowed us down at all. If anything, Triblio has enhanced how we engage with our target accounts. There has been no speed performance issues, or lag due to system limitations. Triblio tracking on our site has not slowed our page performances significantly, so there has been on effect on speed
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    HCLSoftware
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    Support Rating
    Foundry ABM
    Triblio makes it possible for a small SaaS company without a lot of manpower to implement ABM strategies to help compete in a world where the sales motion is now very different - requiring more targeted messaging and education before prospects are willing to engage with a salesperson. We believe that as we continue to spin up our ABM strategies, Triblio is helping us be in the right place and at the right time for the right audience for a reasonable CPC.
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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
    Foundry ABM
    We had our Account management team online to provide training to the marketing team, ADR team, and the AE team, which was helpful as each team had their own sets of questions and needs from the platform. Having the Triblio experts on the call and knowing that they are available for questions later on was reassuring to everyone in the trainings.
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    HCLSoftware
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    Implementation Rating
    Foundry ABM
    Definitely have a dedicated technical team work on the implementation full time with the Triblio team. There are requirements on both ends of the pipe that needs to be done. It is much easier to have both teams work together full time as opposed to part time duty; it would take much longer than doing it all in one shot.
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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
    Foundry ABM
    Terminus appears to be the cheapest on the surface but with the least amount of capabilities, clunky (lots of manual stuff they have to do on the back end to launch your campaign), very low CTR due to the DSP they use (TradeDesk) which also carries a media upcharge. Terminus also cannot figure out their analytics - they are out of whack across various screens in the tool. 6sense is expensive and very limiting (you get X of this, and Y of that - nothing is unlimited, feels like being nickeled and dimed). A very pushy sales team, you are under pressure to book the next meeting or to provide a date when you will sign. The tool appears to have nice capabilities but it is the people, at the end of the day, you will be working with - and I got concerns with that experience. Metadata - nice sales team, low/no pressure to buy. The demo of their platform also looks like it has interesting capabilities. The team appears to be very small, the communications from the salesperson were random and I had to take the lead asking for the next call to see more. This is concerning when it comes to supporting - will they have enough people to support their customer base if they drag their feet in the sales process? None of these tools had ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE to Triblio's orchestration capabilities, so none of them were strong competitors.
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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.
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    Scalability
    Foundry ABM
    The Triblio platform works fairly reliably since we have implemented it into our instance. There are the occasionally wishes that they have more functionalities, but those are feature requests which can be accommodated in future product enhancements. In terms of flexibility and scalability, we chose Triblio since we wanted to scale our ABM efforts, so that was a big part of our consideration.
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    HCLSoftware
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    Return on Investment
    Foundry ABM
    • Triblio is extremely powerful in terms of increasing conversion rates and we've tripled conversion rates using their targeted modals versus less targeted approaches with less sophisticated products, such as HelloBar.
    • Though it is hard to quantify, Triblio has increased the speed to market with which we can introduce targeted promotions. Campaigns can be spun up with Triblio in less than one day.
    • There have been no negative impacts to ROI from Triblio.
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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.
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    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.