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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Marketing

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle CX Marketing (formerly Oracle Marketing Cloud) is a solution designed to enable marketers to plan and execute automated marketing campaigns via email, display search, video advertising, and mobile while delivering a personalized customer experience for their prospects.

    $2,000

    per month

    Oracle Service

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AOracle Service is the help desk and customer experience management platform from Oracle. The technology was developed and supported by RightNow Technologies as RightNow CX for cloud-based call center automation, until that company's acquisition by Oracle in 2011 for about $1.5 billion.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle MarketingOracle Service
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle MarketingOracle Service
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCX Marketing pricing is a function of usage.—
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle MarketingOracle Service
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Marketing
    very similar capabilities
    Incentivized
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Service
    When we chose Service cloud it was because of the robust offerings it had for service, marketing, opportunity tracking and knowledge. These are still very true today. I think without a double the ease of configuration is the number one reason we selected Oracle Service cloud.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    82%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    73%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Oracle MarketingOracle Service
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.3
    133 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Oracle Service
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor10.0117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.0120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content9.0116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.0124 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing10.0118 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization10.0113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.0127 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management9.0126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.0108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    8.5
    118 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Oracle Service
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation10.0110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management8.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks8.089 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.5
    109 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Oracle Service
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring9.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing10.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.5
    72 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Oracle Service
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns10.070 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration9.066 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    8.3
    123 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Oracle Service
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards9.0122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.0120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.0113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.5
    120 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Oracle Service
    -
    Ratings
    API9.0105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals10.089 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability9.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com10.088 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM9.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM10.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Service
    7.7
    78 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.073 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.053 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.057 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.050 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Service
    7.0
    74 Ratings
    13% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings6.065 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Oracle Marketing and Oracle Service
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Service
    8.0
    76 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.069 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.035 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.046 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.054 Ratings
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    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle MarketingOracle Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (246 ratings)
    9.0
    (89 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (92 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (11 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (120 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle MarketingOracle Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    A duration of one and a half years is enough for us to
    recognize the capabilities of a tool and in my opinion, this one is just a
    great tool to manage marketing campaigns of even massive-sized firms. Its
    marketing automation tool and its way of managing campaign and the way it
    executes digital initiatives is enough to get an inkling of its abilities.
    Less favorable for the people who want to have something at
    a cheap price and are more dependent on the reports as its reports have nothing
    much in detail.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Oracle Right (Oracle Service Cloud) was an important evolution in the group's ombudsman channel management processes. We brought the Oracle Service Cloud to digitize the processes for capturing and managing the group's ombudsman channel, no longer operating manually (MS Excel).

    Oracle Service Cloud (Right Now) brought about an important evolution in the management processes of the group's ombudsman channel, where activities that were performed manually, repetitively and with risk of errors, are now operated by the Right Now platform itself, whether by API, or by automation of the tool.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • We can look for the behavior of our clients on our website and mobile application using the analytics it provides.
    • It is highly customizable.
    • It presents data in a form that is easily understandable and reports are highly beneficial for us.
    • Analytics in the form of graphs.
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    • We can access the best-in-class features for cross-channel contact center management amd field service management.
    • It provides a great way to mobilize agents and boost collaboration within the office which in turn improves the overall customer experience.
    • Automation of back of the office repetitive tasks leading to a faster way of addressing customer concerns.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Integration options outside of auto-syncs. I am currently having an issue trying to find an adapter to use with Eloqua to API into our data warehouse but keep the functionality on the Eloqua side.
    • To provide more transparency and visual details of the syncs (integrations of outside data) from any other system that is feeding Eloqua, like what is being updated or changed, better explanations of errors, drill down to newly created records.
    • Custom Objects - Need to have a way to create CDOs outside of just form submissions and uploading of lists, like if you needed to import a file nightly to feed that CDO data but automate the import and make sure it maps to a contact record.
    • Import of data from a file on SFTP - There is no way to filter or create logic to control what is being fed into Eloqua. Currently, that manipulation has to be done by the IT side first. Less flexibility.
    • Better auditing capabilities within the canvas. meaning, sometimes if something is changed or not working the problem may not necessarily show up in immediately, the pattern could take a while to present itself. For example, the feeders into the program. If there is a problem, I don't know that maybe contacts are not entering the program until we do reporting that month and realize there was a lull of contacts going through. Then we have a whole month of missed records or other potential data issues. When you get do large and your Eloqua machine is very robust, the harder it is to see everything
    • Be able to add more than 250 custom contact records. That definitely inhibits my organization in how we need to use that record.
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    • Oracle Service Cloud needs a better built in integration with Oracle Social Cloud or it needs to build in more Social network capabilities.
    • SMS is handle via a third party application but could be built in as part of the product.
    • The knowledge foundation product needs a better way to handle multiple languages. Currently you have to purchase an additional interface for each language. You can purchase the more expensive Knowledge Advance which does have a better language feature.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    We have been able to automate so many marketing processes with Eloqua over the past 5 years that the only direction would be to adopt the latest and greatest features Eloqua adds. The alternative would be to go back to the marketing stone-age and start over again. And we would rather move forward with increased automation and efficiency.
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    Oracle
    Although RightNow is extremely flexible, the flexibility comes with a price. It is often not intuitive which settings you need to change (and under which menus these setting are buried) to enable the system to do what you want. Also, sometimes the system can do things you need, but you don't initially realize it. When RightNow sells a system to a new customer, I think it should come with X hours of consulting time with a RightNow expert. The customer should be able to consult with this expert over the next year to get advice concerning how to configure the system to achieve desired needs. Often RightNow Support would just answer "no" when I asked if I could do something, but then I would find another way to achieve my goals after talking with other companies using RightNow.
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    Usability
    Oracle
    Personally, I find it quite easy to use. But for those members of our team who have little or no testing experience, it's been a bit more difficult. There's also training required for development teams in order to have your campaigns coded and set up in the most efficient way. Our developers have been able to do basic and intermediate tests with no difficulty, and they find the interface itself quite intuitive... it's just the extremely complex tests that require a bit more understanding.
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    Oracle
    The learning curve is fairly steep; but for something that has this much capability, it's nearly impossible to make it "easy". The layout and organization are at least reasonably intuitive. The hardest part-- the "weakest link"-- is the portal development (where you can build help centers and other end-user pages.) The capabilities there are significant, but the learning curve for that part is especially steep and it takes a fair amount of expertise to be able to update it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    No one has experienced any problems with availablity.
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    Oracle
    We have never had issues with downtime or it not being available. Upgrades and maintenance also happens in weekends or at night.
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    Performance
    Oracle
    There are occasional complaints about slowness to refresh a screen or build a report. However, this is as much a factor of network access speeds as the system itself, since often the complaints occur when someone is accessing on a wireless network.
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    Oracle
    We use a lot of tabs and fields on our incident workspace, which should slow the system down, but it's still quite fast, and we continue to optimize whatever is possible.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    We found that we often were telling support people how the system worked. Because we were on E9 that created a lot of support issues as well since few people on the support team seemed to know how E9 worked. That was mostly okay except when we had major system issues (like SSO preventing us from logging in after an update), it became really hard to get answers that weren't vague. It was always the issues that had the highest visibility within the organization (like with Sales) that seemed to take forever to resolve and didn't have a clear escalation path. When Oracle switched Eloqua over to the Oracle support portal it just got worse
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    Oracle
    Technicians seem to be assessed based solely on how quickly they close the issues. I've had to reopen requests multiple times because they didn't actually solve my problem. Also, when the issue has even a moderate amount of complexity, the technicians often instruct me to "open another SR" to handle the other issue. I'm the customer, I shouldn't have to follow their processes, they should handle that for me. But even when I create the new SR, it seems like their right hand isn't talking to their left - they aren't reading back to the previous issue for context. So I get bounced around a lot, and I have to tell them how to do their job
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    They offer very basic classes which are required for master certification.

    After having been through it, I would not consider anyone with a master certification any more qualified, unlike Salesforce.com certification which is a more difficult thing to acquire. For example, one of the classes towards certification was around social media. I would have expected examples of how to incorporate into campaigns in the product, with a demo and hands-on test. Instead, it was a powerpoint slideshow that went on way too long and covered really basic stuff like “what is Facebook, what is Twitter”
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    Oracle
    Most of our training was given while doing user acceptance testing, and getting the system approved by the market. When ever we were in doubt, our implementer helped us along. Later on we started exploring by our selves.
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    Ok, so, this sounds like it could be horrible because it was all remote, but we loved it... the Adobe training environment was easy to use, and the trainers were engaging. It was simple to switch back and forth between the meeting and the hands-on exercises in their training instances. We took the fundamentals training early in our implementation-- before the consultants came onsite-- and I know this made a big difference in our implementation, because we were able to ask informed questions throughout
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    Oracle
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    I give it a 10 because the only issue we had was a result of not following the guidance we were given. Maxymiser provided a customized implementation guide for each site where we were adding the code. On our site implementations when we followed that guide to the letter, it was extremely fast and easy and has worked very well.
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    Oracle
    Work with a RightNow expert during the implementation. Explain features that would you like to have. Often, somebody who really knows the system can show you what you need to do to achieve the desired results. Where a RightNow support engineer or a consultant might say "the system can't do that," a RightNow application engineer will listen to what you need, and often come up with an alternate path to achieve it
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    It was quite complex to generate segments with Adobe
    analytics and I wasn’t personally satisfied with the overall performance of
    Adobe Analytics and wasn’t enough flexible in any way. So we decided to switch
    to something else better than Adobe Analytics and is available in the market at
    a cheap rate and we ended up doing our research for the most suitable tool at
    Oracle Infinity and we don’t regret our decision.
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    Oracle
    TCS' customers who also selected Oracle Service Cloud over Salesforce Service Cloud and GE's ServiceMax in the Mfg. vertical in which I work, did so because of the robust ability of Oracle Service Cloud and its APIs to integrate with other value-add solutions for manufacturers such as IoT applications, Big Data Analytics, and Field Service applications.
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    Eloqua is definitely good for larger companies that have 100,000+ contacts and complex marketing workflows and data. Personalization is fairly robust with Eloqua for larger campaigns with smart content and features. Scaling across channels is also seamless - as the platform has great options for non-email channels like SMS, Direct Mail, Chat, etc.
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    Oracle
    We have never had any down time, slowness or anything. Any error or instability that has occurrred has so far has been caused by user errors.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • We are able to use it to help our clients scale through testing
    • We have been able to measure the impact of our events and sales events so we can determine which events to continue in the future and determine future investment
    • Launch a new brand out of Eloqua and measure awareness
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    Oracle
    • Since its, it has significantly reduced our training time of new agents. What used to take 6 weeks in the class room, went to 4 weeks.
    • Service Cloud allows us to easily gather data to report to the other departments quickly.
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    ScreenShots

    Oracle Marketing Screenshots

    Screenshot of Marketing intelligence gives everyone insights into marketing campaign impact on qualified sales leads, pipeline, and ROI.Screenshot of Oracle Eloqua's industry-leading marketing automation helps you create and execute brilliant B2B campaigns to drive engagement across each stage of the customer experience, from the simplest to the most sophisticated buying cycles.Screenshot of Oracle Responsys makes it easy for B2C marketing teams to produce sophisticated cross-channel customer experiences that deliver value at the time of need to each individual based on their interests, preferences, and shopping habits.Screenshot of Oracle Maxymiser’s advanced website testing and personalization solutions help marketers make data-driven decisions on websites and mobile apps; create seamless, connected customer experiences; and deliver higher marketing ROI.Screenshot of Oracle Infinity helps you optimize a customer’s real-time digital journey. The system brings in online behavioral data, applies intelligence to that data, and dynamically surfaces recommended actions you could take to enhance the digital customer experience—at the exact right moment.Screenshot of Oracle CX Audience provides a solution for large-scale audience segmentation, data management, and analytics as part of Oracle’s comprehensive cloud platform. Input simple or complex omnichannel data into CX Audience and get segmentation and analytics to help optimize marketing performance.

    Oracle Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of A pixel-perfect Customer Portal organizes self-service content in a way that makes sense to your customers.Screenshot of Customers can search, email, chat, and call your business from their mobile devices for immediate resolution.Screenshot of Bring omnichannel interactions together into an intuitive, unified agent desktop.Screenshot of A fully integrated knowledge solution is the backbone of all seamless and consistent service experiences.Screenshot of Tailor customer experiences with contextualized and personalized service using dynamic interviews.Screenshot of Predictive forecasting tools increase field service operational efficiencies to ensure timely job completion.