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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Optimizely Web Experimentation

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AWhether launching a first test or scaling a sophisticated experimentation program, Optimizely Web Experimentation aims to deliver the insights needed to craft high-performing digital experiences that drive engagement, increase conversions, and accelerate growth.N/A

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Optimizely Web ExperimentationSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Optimizely Web ExperimentationSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Optimizely Web ExperimentationSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Optimizely
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    89 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    69 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    89 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    58 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    Optimizely Web ExperimentationSAP Business Technology Platform
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Optimizely Web Experimentation and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Optimizely Web Experimentation
    8.0
    163 Ratings
    5% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
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    Ratings
    a/b experiment testing9.0163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Split URL testing8.5135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multivariate testing8.4139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing7.9126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing8.197 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app testing8.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test significance8.4147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor8.1133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced code editor7.9125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page surveys6.217 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visitor recordings8.418 Ratings00 Ratings
    Preview mode7.6145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test duration calculator7.9112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler8.2112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval7.890 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation7.574 Ratings00 Ratings
    Client-side tests7.896 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server-side tests7.250 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests8.280 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Optimizely Web Experimentation and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Optimizely Web Experimentation
    8.2
    152 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation8.4147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation7.6122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control9.1144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization7.8111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Optimizely Web Experimentation and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Optimizely Web Experimentation
    8.3
    149 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
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    Ratings
    Heatmap tool9.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics8.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps8.517 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis8.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking8.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking8.2127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting7.9137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results segmentation7.7103 Ratings00 Ratings
    CSV export7.9102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Optimizely Web Experimentation and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Optimizely Web Experimentation
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.0782 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.0780 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.4739 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.7655 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.6748 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.0735 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.9723 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings7.7631 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.0714 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.7633 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.4677 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Optimizely Web ExperimentationSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (254 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (51 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (163 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Optimizely Web ExperimentationSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Optimizely
    I think it can serve the whole spectrum of experiences from people who are just getting used to web experimentation. It's really easy to pick up and use. If you're more experienced then it works well because it just gets out of the way and lets you really focus on the experimentation side of things. So yeah, strongly recommend. I think it is well suited both to small businesses and large enterprises as well. I think it's got a really low barrier to entry. It's very easy to integrate on your website and get results quickly. Likewise, if you are a big business, it's incrementally adoptable, so you can start out with one component of optimizing and you can build there and start to build in things like data CMS to augment experimentation as well. So it's got a really strong a pathway to grow your MarTech platform if you're a small company or a big company.
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    SAP
    If you want to use a well-designed SAP technology to shift into the cloud, you will be more than satisfied with the BTP services overall. There are some improvements for beginners to help them get a better overview of what to do and how to start with their account. My recommendation is to take a foundation training course from the SAP learning hub to prepare for the first steps.
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    Pros
    Optimizely
    • The Platform contains drag-and-drop editor options for creating variations, which ease the A/B tests process, as it does not require any coding or development resources.
    • Establishing it is so simple that even a non-technical person can do it perfectly.
    • It provides real-time results and analytics with robust dashboard access through which you can quickly analyze how different variations perform. With this, your team can easily make data-driven decisions Fastly.
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    SAP
    • It is very easy to use.
    • All the documentation around it is geared towards the enterprise use case, unlike some other hyperscalers' platforms.
    • The SAP Business Technology Platform is very good because it's got the SAP customer and their business processes in mind. Probably my favorite thing about it is how easy it is to get up and running with a new use case and how well it natively connects to an SAP solution.
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    Cons
    Optimizely
    • JavaScript is hard to implement sometimes especially for JQuery elements
    • ROI reporting should be part of the overall experimentation reporting
    • CMP integration: where we can easily show status of test on the HPT request
    • CMS integration
    • More widgets like social proof banners, etc.
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    SAP
    • The Automation Integration service has some outdated workflows
    • New services should be available as entitlements as soon as they are released for a particular region without having to buy them from SAP for zero dollars
    • Any subaccount should be able to change the IAS tenant. Currently, if you set it up for a particular IAS, you cannot change to another tenant and are required to recreate the services in a new subaccount.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Optimizely
    I rated this question because at this stage, Optimizely does most everything we need so I don't foresee a need to migrate to a new tool. We have the infrastructure already in place and it is a sizeable lift to pivot to another tool with no guarantee that it will work as good or even better than Optimizely
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    SAP
    Seamless integration with external system and dashboard to monitor the data flow and analysis are very essential for the business. The way the product is designed and modelled lead to minimum business disruptions. Adopting to the new and modern technology was easy. Keeping the central system as clean and adopting project bases development are advantages.
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    Usability
    Optimizely
    Optimizely Web Experimentation's visual editor is handy for non-technical or quick iterative testing. When it comes to content changes it's as easy as going into wordpress, clicking around, and then seeing your changes live--what you see is what you get. The preview and approval process for sharing built experiments is also handy for sharing experiments across teams for QA purposes or otherwise.
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    SAP
    Okay, so the content that we have built on the platform is limited to specific testing on the iFlows within integration suite. The visualization layer is nice to use and helps with the design elements, however with developers that are more used to markup languages, it doesn't have the same CLI type feel when you want it. Perhaps the majority of users are that deep, but other platforms have a better CLI type developer experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Optimizely
    I would rate Optimizely Web Experimentation's availability as a 10 out of 10. The software is reliable and does not experience any application errors or unplanned outages. Additionally, the customer service and technical support teams are always available to help with any issues or questions.
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    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Performance
    Optimizely
    I would rate Optimizely Web Experimentation's performance as a 9 out of 10. Pages load quickly, reports are complete in a reasonable time frame, and the software does not slow down any other software or systems that it integrates with. Additionally, the customer service and technical support teams are always available to help with any issues or questions.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Optimizely
    They always are quick to respond, and are so friendly and helpful. They always answer the phone right away. And [they are] always willing to not only help you with your problem, but if you need ideas they have suggestions as well.
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    SAP
    The biggest problem we ran into was communication between SAP Business Technology Platform and onsite resources. Unfortunately our SAP Business Technology Platform and Cloud systems are under different customer numbers. I constantly had to open tickets under each customer number because I was unsure of where the issue lied. And having to create a dummy ticket for our ECC systems to open the ECC connections for another ticket under the Cloud customer is a pain.
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    Online Training
    Optimizely
    The tool itself is not very difficult to use so training was not very useful in my opinion. It did not also account for success events more complex than a click (which my company being ecommerce is looking to examine more than a mere click).
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    SAP
    Training material in Developers Community or from Learning hub are really good... also most of the time we route through Discovery center... so materials provided by SAP is really good.
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    Implementation Rating
    Optimizely
    In retrospect: - I think I should have stressed more demo's / workshopping with the Optimizely team at the start. I felt too confident during demo stages, and when came time to actually start, I was a bit lost. (The answer is likely I should have had them on-hand for our first install.. they offered but I thought I was OK.) - Really getting an understanding / asking them prior to install of how to make it really work for checkout pages / one that uses dynamic content or user interaction to determine what the UI does. Could have saved some time by addressing this at the beginning, as some things we needed to create on our site for Optimizely to "use" as a trigger for the variation test. - Having a number of planned/hoped-for tests already in-hand before working with Optimizely team. Sharing those thoughts with them would likely have started conversations on additional things we needed to do to make them work (rather than figuring that out during the actual builds). Since I had development time available, I could have added more things to the baseline installation since my developers were already "looking under the hood" of the site.
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    SAP
    Having a full cloud native environment for devlopment of microservices and digitals solutions while having standardized access to our core data on SAP via cloud connector is one of the main benefits of using BTP over others hypervisors. BTP is the standard hyperscaler as soon as something relies on data from SAP systems in our company now
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    Alternatives Considered
    Optimizely
    The ability to do A/B testing in Optimizely along with the associated statistical modelling and audience segmentation means it is a much better solution than using something like Google Analytics were a lot more effort is required to identify and isolate the specific data you need to confidently make changes
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    SAP
    SAP Concur allows our staff to book, reimburse and remain spend audit compliant. Our Concur system takes feed from Workday and interacts with Credit card vendor. It also makes posting to Accounting and does clearing. SAP Business Technology Platform helped in establishing connection with all these different tools in real time. It helps in getting paid to the card service provider through our Bank through interface, which is built on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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    Scalability
    Optimizely
    We can use it flexibly across lines of business and have it in use across two departments. We have different use cases and slightly different outcomes, but can unify our results based on impact to the bottom line. Finally, we can generate value from anywhere in the org for any stakeholders as needed.
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    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Optimizely
    • We're able to share definitive annualized revenue projections with our team, showing what would happen if we put a test into Production
    • Showing the results of a test on a new page or feature prior to full implementation on a site saves developer time (if a test proves the new element doesn't deliver a significant improvement.
    • Making a change via the WYSIWYG interface allows us to see multiple changes without developer intervention.
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    SAP
    • As we are on public cloud, we haven't had many break issues due to being standardized.
    • Project management and expectations working with developers has been overwhelmingly positive and improved.
    • Improved connectivity with us migrating to other SAP products and easier/more mainstream integration methods.
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    ScreenShots

    Optimizely Web Experimentation Screenshots

    Screenshot of AI-Powered Experimentation with Opal:

- Instant Test Ideas: Generates high-quality A/B test ideas based on any goals and audience insights.
- Smarter Experimentation: The AI can suggest impactful variations, reducing guesswork and increasing test velocity.
- More Than Just Ideas: From hypothesis generation to analyzing results, Opal helps optimize every stage of the experimentation process.Screenshot of the new Visual Editor with an AI Variation Development Agent

Create simple or advanced website changes fast without writing a line of code with our AI Development Agent.

Use natural language to build out your ideas and apply brand styles to your experiments instantly.Screenshot of Advanced Audience Targeting:

- Delivers personalized experiences by targeting users based on behaviors, attributes, and real-time conditions.
- Defines precise audience segments using first-party data, geolocation, and device type.
- Can test and optimize for different audience groups to maximize impact and engagement.Screenshot of Variation Template

Library of experience templates that you can access right within the Visual Editor. Customize these templates or create your own to easily reuse throughout your experimentation program.

- Offers pre-built templates for common test setups.
- Standardized variations and maintains brand integrity with reusable templates.
- Templates can be customized visually or tweak them with code for full flexibility.Screenshot of Web Experimentation Results Page:

- Data visualizations help interpret experiment performance.
- Displays which variations are winning with built-in statistical significance calculations.
- Results can be filtered by audience segments, events, and conversions to uncover key trends.Screenshot of the custom code editor for JavaScript & CSS changes, used to build complex tests.

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service