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    Piano Activation

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APiano Composer, from Piano Software in New York, allows users to design, test, deploy, and manage audience experiences based on scenarios, rules, triggers, and conditions, all without IT. It presents out of the box loyalty and engagement solutions, and allows users to engage customer segments on the content they find most interesting and valuable - based on page attributes, metadata, or URL conditions.N/A

    Smaply

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Smaply app enables teams to digitize, centralize and standardize their customer experience insights. Teams can together work on journey maps, personas and stakeholder maps, collect feedback from others, and create professional exports. Its training program helps teams to understand and apply human-centered approaches.

    $19

    per month per user

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    Piano ActivationSmaply
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    19 EUR
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    Pro
    29 EUR
    per month per user
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    Piano ActivationSmaply
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Piano ActivationSmaply
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    User Testimonials
    Piano ActivationSmaply
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Piano Software
    Piano Composer is well suited to news publishers in particular currently, but in theory this tool could be used by any organisation that relies on a paywall or advertising to generate revenue. Their increasingly powerful segmentation tool would also be very useful to many companies, as you can target particular users very easily or rely on their algorithms to do it for you and learn to optimise over time. I also think that if you have a sales pipeline/funnel that you want to nurture users through, Piano Composer can help you to do that.
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    Smaply
    The solution is suitable for complex journeys with many touchpoints.
    The tool has the advantage of being easy to use.
    On the other hand, I have not found any data import solutions avoiding re-entering all the data from Excel for example. It could save a lot of time. Indeed, for me, the tool is a tool for formalizing discoveries but other solutions can be used before
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    Pros
    Piano Software
    • Very easy to use interface
    • Powerful algorithms to improve targeting
    • Great engagement with clients about improvements and future roadmaps
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    Smaply
    • User journey map
    • Personas templates
    • Stakeholder maps
    • Free online courses
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    Cons
    Piano Software
    • Acquires companies often and integration of these sometimes cause bugs and outages
    • Can be slow to load sometimes
    • Any custom work you need done by their developers takes far too long
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    Smaply
    • Global look and feel
    • Export format
    • Text formating in sticky notes
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    Piano Software
    Optimizely is a great platform for A/B testing with multiple variants and across a range of devices, browsers etc. What makes Piano Composer different is that you can add tests within your flows - specifying exactly where and why you want things to happen, whilst still building the rest of your experiences around this. The other huge benefit to Piano Composer is that it contains their Customer Segmentation engine and processing this data with their proprietary algorithms, so it is taking everything it knows about your users and including this in the segmentation process, which I think it much more powerful.
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    Smaply
    It’s [easier] to deal with user journey and persons thanks to Smaply. Templates and already created and there is a lot of functionalities to make a complete journey map. It’s very intuitive and we can send it easily to our team. Stakeholder map is a feature that [not many software] have and that is very useful so I’m happy to have it in Smaply
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    Return on Investment
    Piano Software
    • Increased digital subscriptions substantially
    • Enables quick and easy testing, which saves lots of time
    • Is quite expensive as a tool overall, so you need to balance the benefits to the number of users you have
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    Smaply
    • Time saving
    • Clarity for stakeholders
    • Sharing best practices
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    Screenshot of Airport Experience Example Journey Map in Smaply EditorScreenshot of Airport Experience Example Journey Map ExportScreenshot of Airport Experience Example Journey Map A4 ExportScreenshot of Persona EditorScreenshot of Persona ExportScreenshot of Stakeholder Map Editor