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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

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

    $1,380

    per year (purchased via a Creator license)

    Pricing
    Oracle MarketingTableau Desktop
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau Creator License
    $115
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle MarketingTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCX Marketing pricing is a function of usage.All pricing plans are billed annually. A Creator license includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and Tableau Pulse. Discounts sometimes available for volume.
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    Oracle MarketingTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Marketing
    We evaluated Marketo in the fall of 2012 during our evaluation of updating from Eloqua 9 to Eloqua 10. We formed a cross-functional Marketing Automation Council to drive the evaluation process. There were positive points awarded to both platforms in terms of meeting our "day in …
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    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    Features
    Oracle MarketingTableau Desktop
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.3
    133 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    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 Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    8.5
    118 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    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 Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.5
    109 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring9.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing10.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.5
    72 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    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 Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    8.3
    123 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    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 Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    9.5
    120 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    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
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    175 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.0145 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.2174 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    172 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.6167 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.6170 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.1126 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.6165 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    166 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.1155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.2154 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.6120 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.6128 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.078 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    164 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.7162 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.6156 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    9.1
    149 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.1145 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.1125 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.9136 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.210 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.383 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    7.9
    141 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.6130 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.5101 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.5122 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Oracle Marketing and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Oracle Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    7.7
    67 Ratings
    1% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.459 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.653 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.751 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.154 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.448 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Oracle MarketingTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (246 ratings)
    9.1
    (204 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (92 ratings)
    7.5
    (41 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.4
    (73 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    1.0
    (57 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (120 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle MarketingTableau Desktop
    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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    Tableau
    The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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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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    Tableau
    • An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
    • Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
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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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    Tableau
    • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
    • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
    • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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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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    Tableau
    Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.
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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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    No one has experienced any problems with availablity.
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    Tableau
    When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
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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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast
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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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    Tableau
    Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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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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    Tableau
    It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
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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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    Tableau
    I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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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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    Tableau
    Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth 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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    Tableau
    I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.
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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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    Tableau
    • Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
    • Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
    • Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
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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.