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    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is an integrated marketing management solution for marketing operation, planning, execution, and analytics across all channels—digital, social, and traditional. Capabilities include marketing resource management, multichannel campaign management, lead management, sales collaboration, social marketing, and marketing analytics. Microsoft acquired MarketingPilot, an SMB-focused marketing automation product, in 2012. MarketingPilot IMM (integrated marketing…

    $1,200

    per month

    Uptempo

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AUptempo is marketing planning software used by enterprise marketing teams to centralize campaign and budget planning, track spending, predict and monitor performance, and pivot plans in real-time to enable marketing agility.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 MarketingUptempo
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 MarketingUptempo
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    User Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 MarketingUptempo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (8 ratings)
    8.7
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 MarketingUptempo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Having used both Salesforce and Microsoft Marketing, the integration is much tighter and the automation and workflow is much tighter using PowerAutomate. Reporting on tasks is better in Salesforce, but the ability to fully and quickly integrate into the Microsoft Azure stack is well worth the hassle of quickly generating reports.
    Incentivized
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    Although the Analytics part is already available it could be improved. So for now Allocadia is very recommended if you are looking for a data maintenance software but less appropriate as a analysis tool. Ask yourself what is it you are looking for (analysis or controlling) and for which purposes (management level or specialists). The costs are very resonable and an absolute Plus!
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Builds dynamic audiences using real-time CRM and behavioral data without manual list maintenance.
    • Triggers communications based on actions such as purchase, visit date, or post-visit timing.
    • Manages high-volume transactional and lifecycle emails with consistent governance and compliance.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    • The user interface is clean, well-thought out, and easy for marketers to use. It behaves like their spreadsheets in all the right ways...without the baggage of having budgets locked into separate spreadsheets.
    • Allocadia knows that revenue attribution is important, and has great out-of-the-box adapters to flow actual spend and actual performance in to the tool.
    • The reporting engine is both substance and style. Data is accurate, can be sliced-and-diced, and is easy for marketers to get what they want in an ad hoc fashion, if a canned report does not already exist. The visuals are also excellent, which promotes the use of analysis.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Currently marketing is more contact centric, should add the flexibility of doing segmentation as well as customer journey on leads without associating with contact
    • Pricing is based on number of contact, even if you are not marketing all of them.
    • Cannot reuse the existing marketing lists created in CRM for marketing as seamlessly as in ClickDimensions, even though both uses the same Dataverse
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    • Integrate the marketing department closer to the other companies departments output.
    • Connect to more markets for customer acquisition and care as well as customer satisfaction and experience enhancements.
    • We think it can get even closer to SAP Marketing Cloud at less investments and more ROI.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    I wouldn't even think of renewing our use of Marketing 365. It's worthless
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    I am hesitant to comment on renewal in detail because we haven't been using the system for very long. But I am encouraged by the speed and ease of implementation, and look forward to getting to know the system better.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is extremely usable in order to manage all of my organization's customer information across the organization. Further we use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing to manage all of our marketing campaigns from beginning to end. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing makes my organization more able to run a professional marketing strategy.
    Incentivized
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    Easy to use and allows you to track just about anything that's important to your business
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Like all Microsoft corporation products, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing comes with the extremely high-quality customer support that Microsoft corporation has become well known for. Whether it is the availability of twenty-four/seven customer support or the highly-trained, very friendly customer support personnel, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing has the support you are looking for.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    While the cost was significantly more than other vendors we looked at, the tools are similar to our previous tool so conversion would be (somewhat) easy. We chose it because it directly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - which we integrated at the same time.
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    Uptempo can integrate with other helpful tools, making it so powerful in achieving tasks. The cost of licensing is relatively cheaper compared to other software. It is also more efficient and saves a lot of time. The sales team also offered us a lot of training.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It took a few months to get things in order and I believe I could’ve gotten started sooner, but I had to learn about it first
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    Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
    • We have been able to more effectively look at our buys and see how they are performing on an ROI basis. Previously our spend data and leads were in two different places but this has allowed us to combine them.
    • We have only been in the software for five months so I think we will continue to see the ROI impact as we build out reports. Right now we're still trying to find the reports that will help us the most in our optimization.
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    ScreenShots

    Uptempo Screenshots

    Screenshot of Uptempo's Marketing & Campaign Planning interface, which provides full visibility and control over activity planning across teams and channels.Screenshot of Uptempo's Impact Modeller, which translates planned activities into projected outcomes based on conversation rate and deal velocity data.Screenshot of Uptempo's Marketing Budget Management interface, which provides the ability to plan, iterate, control, and optimize budgets.Screenshot of Uptempo's Investments interface tracks actuals and reconciles them with planned marketing spend to ensure teams stay within budgets.Screenshot of Uptempo Work & Resource Management, the a central platform that manages, controls, and optimizes workflows across the marketing team's workload.Screenshot of Uptempo Brand Management, which forms the central platform to access, adapt, and order timely, correct, and brand-compliant media for every touchpoint.