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    Monetate

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMonetate (formerly Kibo Personalization, powered by Monetate and Certona) is an ecommerce personalization software for consumer-facing brands. Monetate enables brands to create individualized experiences for site visitors, with the goal of improving engagement and business performance. Founded in 2008, Monetate services Adidas, Lufthansa, Office Depot, Reebok, Wolseley, and other companies.N/A

    Optimizely One

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AOptimizely One is a digital experience platform, helping marketing and product teams accelerate digital growth, powering the marketing and digital lifecycle from planning to analysis through a unified workflow. Optimizely One accelerates every step of the process with embedded AI.N/A
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    MonetateOptimizely One
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
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    MonetateOptimizely One
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    Monetate
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    82%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    84%
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    Happy with the feature set
    87%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
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    Implementation went as expected
    72%
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    MonetateOptimizely One
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    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    Dynamic Yield
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MonetateOptimizely One
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.4
    (117 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (24 ratings)
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    Usability
    6.4
    (17 ratings)
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    Availability
    10.0
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    Performance
    10.0
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    8.0
    (16 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    10.0
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
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    Vendor post-sale
    5.8
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    User Testimonials
    MonetateOptimizely One
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Monetate
    Monetate is a fully functional space to generate multiple marketing campaigns for your company on the web, many of the functions found in this program are a contribution to manage your content correctly and give it the space you are looking for, we We recommend it one hundred percent. We feel very comfortable with everything we have been able to achieve thanks to this program.
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    Optimizely
    It is well suited for heavy-duty A/B testing where management would like to see and quantitatively determine the effect of a change. It is not so efficient to try for a single page simple form, except when the form is part of a larger workflow. The security model is not very well understood, including RBAC and protection against injection attacks.
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    Pros
    Monetate
    • Audience segmentation is relatively painless. They provide a robust way to granularly target visitors by device type, location, weather, demographics, etc.
    • Our CSM has been very engaged and detailed in supporting our partnership. She provides very prompt responses and clearly works hard to push the Kibo team when possible.
    • The User Interface to develop new actions is not terrible.
    • Supports Single Sign On, which is the preferred method of managing users at my organization.
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    Optimizely
    • Provides quicker release cycle for the way the product cards should be displayed.
    • Provides feedback for new product introduction and how it'll be perceived.
    • Allows rapid blackout from user experience changes that alters traffic flow.
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    Cons
    Monetate
    • We'd like to be able to use the Monetate resources to help us set up tests that require web dev (to get it out of our backlog), but they also have wait times similar to our internal ones. I realize resources are hard to come by, but this is an area we'd love to be able to utilize more if the turnaround were quicker.
    • IE is always a problem. I know it's not Monetate-specific though, and many tools struggle with IE.
    • We have a large percentage of our users who use IE, and I'd like to provide more experiences in IE without and additional hassle.
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    Optimizely
    • Can use better interface for managing test, including scheduling and notification.
    • Feels too heavy for simple projects, though this isn't a factor once past the PoC stage.
    • Notification on various aspects can be made more powerful and granular if such a need arise.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Monetate
    I had never worked within a company that had a tool like this. It made my life as a designer and a creative manager much easier with it's easy to use interface and limitless possibilities in terms of creative. I would highly recommend taking Monetate for a test drive, you will not be disappointed.
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    Usability
    Monetate
    Part of what I love about Monetate is how intuitive the tool is. Very very easy to use - based on the basics - Who/What/When/Where concept. Anyone can jump right in and start using the tool. And very easy to copy campaigns and tweak to continue to build experiences. We recently added Monetate on mobile and similar experience - easy to jump back and forth between platforms. Also love the analytics dashboard...easily quantifiable and easy to get tidbits that are digestible for others not as familiar with tool.
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    Support Rating
    Monetate
    Monetate support team meets with use weekly, answers emails daily and promptly. They are proactive about getting answers for us when we need it and offering suggestions based on observations they have or learnings they want to share from other partners. Monetate's support is top notch.
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    Optimizely
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    Implementation Rating
    Monetate
    Monetate installs easily and sets up personalization with just a few clicks. We never used the recommendation engine but the multivariant testing was great.
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    Optimizely
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    Alternatives Considered
    Monetate
    At the time of selection, it was the best tool to fit our business needs. The day-to-day users were able to create some experiences on their own and did not require much oversight. We also had developer support built into our contract along with internal developer support so most experiences were achievable. We believed it was as good and in some ways better than the other comparable tools on the market.
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    Optimizely
    There is a big difference between the two: Google Optimize uses Bayesian analysis while Optimizely uses Frequenting. There is a risk of counting multiple visits. Google Optimize data isn't available instantly (if I remember correctly). Optimizely's analyses dashboard is a lot richer and offers a better experience, though it may get intimidating.
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    Return on Investment
    Monetate
    • We are really starting to understand our audience and what they prefer on our website. One example is on our product display pages, we learned that our visitors convert about 35% more when content is laid out in one fashion versus another. Another example is our promotional banners perform better when it takes up the width of the page versus the margins pulled in more.
    • At first, Monetate was a negative ROI - we were paying for a service we weren't getting, and not understanding the full power of the program. With the new optimization firm however, we are now really able to churn out more tests, have a clean and direct test plan, and finally seeing tangible results.
    • As an aside, Monetate has helped us just save time and money on creating our promotional banners now so we don't have to get with our development team each time we want to put one up. Even without running a test, it has let us add content to our site when we need to (as we already have the experiments set up as we need it to and we can quickly duplicate it) without our developers getting in there to make those short-lived changes.
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    Optimizely
    • Almost immediate payoff in terms of the benefit.
    • Easy to justify the TTM benefits to upper management.
    • Still somewhat hard to justify ROI, though this is not my expertise.
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    Optimizely One Screenshots

    Screenshot of admin centerScreenshot of an Optimizely Content Management System content previewScreenshot of the integrations app directoryScreenshot of the reporting dashboardScreenshot of the Content Management System Visual Builder, used to create and edit dynamic experiences in the Visual Builder, no coding required.Screenshot of Content Marketing Platform Calendar: Gain full visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.