SAP Customer Data Solutions vs. Twilio Segment

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Customer Data Solutions
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The SAP Customer Data Cloud, based on Gigya (acquired by SAP in 2017) is a product suite that allows users to identify consumers, business customers, or partners across devices and channels to drive registrations and engagement; manage access, permission, and consent; and transform data into unified customer profiles.N/A
Twilio Segment
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Segment is a customer data platform that helps engineering teams at companies like Tradesy, TIME, Inc., Gap, Lending Tree, PayPal, and Fender, etc., achieve time and cost savings on their data infrastructure, which was acquired by Twilio November 2020. The vendor says they also enable Product, BI, and Marketing teams to access 200+ tools (Mixpanel, Salesforce, Marketo, Redshift, etc.) to better understand and optimize customer preferences for growth— all integrations are pre-built and…
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Team
$120.00
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Business
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
SAP Customer Data SolutionsTwilio Segment
Considered Both Products
SAP Customer Data Solutions
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
Have not considered others.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
There is a dedicated team for SAP setup that helps in providing specialized or customized services to the user. The platform's accessibility lets us obtain reports and information in real time so we reach clients at the proper moment by optimizing delivery time appealed to us …
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SAP has been the best partner I have worked with during my career. The platform offers highly valuable features for crafting and structuring data presentations, enabling informed decision-making by management.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
They are simply the best team you could hope to have in your back pocket. Once you get the gist of it you can set up almost anything you can think of.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
We carefully looked at different solutions to manage customer data and ultimately chose SAP Customer Data Solutions. What sets it apart is its complete management of customer data, robust analytics, and effortless integration with marketing tools. SAP's user-friendly interface …
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP customer data platform is market leader in data unification. Integration with multiple data channels with real time customer data helped in decision making process.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
Resources and specialized IT personnel is needed for the effective administration and deployment of Informatica Customer 360. This resource-intensive for smaller organizations. Although Informatica has the ability to integrate, the process of setting up and establishing these …
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Twilio Segment
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP Customer Data Solutions differs from many of his competitors since it's the only solution which provides an end-to-end approach that starts directly from the website integration (which is not demanded to whoever manages your website but it's integrated directly), and …
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
This is an industry leading tool which also has matured over the period of time and is better suited for large corporations and mission critical applications.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
I have not used a different App
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
A better integration with out database was the key factor that led our decision to move forward with this tool. Keeping in mind that it was more costly, we knew that it would be a safe bet, would bring a more data-driven culture to our team, the capacity to create laser focused …
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP is bigger and better in all the ways from its competitors. However, when costing is a concern from a client, then they tend to use a budget friendly solution like Hubspot or Salesforce.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
It was the best in the market and many organization's were using this when we looked for the options available in the market. It has best customer ratings and good brand value.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
Ultimately, we chose SAP Customer Data Solutions for several key reasons:
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
Better customer service at SAP. No concerns whatsoever with regards to safety and security of customer data. Timely updation of systems which ensures smooth functioning of the platform with very little down time. Cost of implementation and licensing is something which is a …
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
For better customer support.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
We have used Gigya for a long time. I didn't participate in the selection process.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
Other tools are more marketing oriented and not suitable for Identity Management.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
OAuth and Octa were two possible alternatives. We decided on CDC mainly for the good integration with other SAP products.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP CDC is better for enterprises without too many developers. Also, cover OOB Consent and Identity together
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
The products I evaluated integrate directly and natively with SAP Customer Data Cloud
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
There's no other product I tried as ready to use as SAP CDC. It doesn't offer only endpoints or API to manage authentication but a full suite of functionalities almost ready to be integrated with a few customizations
Twilio Segment
Chose Twilio Segment
Mixpanel and Amplitude offer strong data analytics and Google Analytics is powerful for web data, but their integration capabilities are less extensive compared to Twilio Segment. It's easy-to-use api and data collection and cleaning capabilities Twilio Segment operates as a …
Chose Twilio Segment
We chose Twilio Segment for the good API integration and node resources, I would use Ontraport again, particularly if I didn't have the requirements for API and development/platform integration. Certainly the set up and management is easy and seamless with both the API and the …
Chose Twilio Segment
Tealium was slow to set up and unreliable. It has better pricing but took significantly more Dev time to implement. We also could not debug issues and their support was slow to assist.
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment is considerably cheaper but doesn't have the GUI for non-SQL users. GA Premium doesn't have all the data connectors, and can be more difficult to configure on SPAs.
Chose Twilio Segment
I'm not sure these are "official competitors" (or alternatives) to Segment, but we use them in parallel for different goals. We use Datadog for logging and monitoring and we use Mixpanel to perform data analysis based on the data we gather using Segment (and other sources). I …
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment is far more versatile than Mixpanel alone. We still use Mixpanel, but it wouldn't be nearly as useful without Segement.
Chose Twilio Segment
We tried to set up our entire data analytics process through these tools but there were some parts of the data capture, set-up, analytics that was missing with these tools. None of them could provide the ease of setting up with a complete picture of the data and analytics like …
Chose Twilio Segment
It's much more personalized and user-focused data available in real-time, and immediately exported to an external database. It's provided more control over how the information is used and displayed for actionable insights.
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment is not really suitable for most websites that have more than 10k MTU - If you run a semi-popular website, there are many tools out there that will do basic web analytics, like Google Analytics. Google Analytics provides simple resources for tracking user growth, …
Chose Twilio Segment
Segment syncs different data than those apps, making it a useful addition to the stack.
Chose Twilio Segment
The competitors above either charge a lot if you want to warehouse your data, don't allow data warehousing, or make it very difficult to warehouse your data (requiring you to write custom scripts and run them on schedulers). Segment makes it easy to warehouse your application's …
Chose Twilio Segment
There were no other solutions like Segment that I evaluated. I've never even heard of a comparable solution.
Chose Twilio Segment
Similar offering, since I didn't go with them I couldn't a more in depth response.
Chose Twilio Segment
See my previous response. Google Tag Manager is great if you are firmly in the Google ecosphere. But they don't have as many integrations as Segment.io
Chose Twilio Segment
Looked at Google Tag Manager, but too complicated. Segment.io mostly competes with each individual martech tool of implementing all the event tracking yourself for each tool.
Features
SAP Customer Data SolutionsTwilio Segment
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Customer Data Solutions
7.8
Ratings
5% below category average
Twilio Segment
7.6
Ratings
8% below category average
Tag library7.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Tag variable mapping7.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.80 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Page load times7.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging7.50 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions7.60 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Customer Data Solutions
7.5
Ratings
8% below category average
Twilio Segment
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
Standard visitor segmentation8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Traffic allocation control4.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Website personalization9.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer Data Management
Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Customer Data Solutions
6.5
Ratings
23% below category average
Twilio Segment
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Account Scoring7.90 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Customer Data Governance8.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Connectors4.50 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data Enhancement5.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion6.20 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data Storage2.80 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Data Visibility8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Event Data6.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Identity Resolution8.90 Ratings7.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
9.5
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Usability
9.1
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Availability
9.0
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Performance
7.3
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Support Rating
9.1
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7.7
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In-Person Training
9.1
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
7.3
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Configurability
9.1
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Ease of integration
9.1
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Product Scalability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
4.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It's best suited for business business to turn digital interaction in to richer and high value and experience that reach across computing platform also it offers a holistic and integrated approach to managing customer data and enhancing and personalized experience.it also draw actionable insights.because it offers wide range of products . perfect customer insight data solutions
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Best suited: - Merging emails coming from: Facebook leads forms, Unbounce or landing pages forms, Google forms, any other kind of lead generation tool and bundling all that information together for a single user "profile". - Passing events generated in multiple applications by the same user (product selected in web, product discarded in cart, etc) and delivering those events into other applications (like a CRM) Less appropriate: - Reading/updating data directly from segment from a frontend application
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Pros
  • The CIAM solution offers a single point of collections for registered users, streamlined on all websites configured
  • Social access is made easy since it's handled directly by the CIAM and supports more than 50 social networks
  • GDPR and similar laws are handled out-of-the-box
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  • Unmatched insight into the customer journey when they come into contact with our business.
  • The ability for it to break down data in a way that allows us to analyse customer engagement.
  • It efficiently integrates with my current softwares eg Shopify.
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Cons
  • I find the interface a bit complex and challenging to navigate. I remember having difficultly grasping it completely especially when I was new to the system. Simplifying the user experience would make it more accessible for everyone, making tasks quicker and more intuitive.
  • integrating it seamlessly with other software and platforms could enhance its functionality. I would really really love an integration between BenchMark email marketing tool.
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  • Potentially, it could "warn" the developers/product about areas in our code that are not covered by events (and let us decide if it's "be design" or we missed it).
  • It's difficult to get accumulated history data exported out in order to analyze it.
  • There's no easy way to compare data from 2 sources (our main target is to compare the same events between our test environment and prod environment).
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Likelihood to Renew
We use SAP CDC since it was Gigya and not a SAP solution. In these years, we only lost one customer, all others are happy with this solution and how we integrate it.
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Usability
We mostly work with the API which is of very good quality and is well documented.However, some of our success is also due to having very talented developers on staff, and also understanding advanced gamification design. The tool supports a talented team! It won't actually do everything for you automatically.
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Reliability and Availability
I don't have personal experience or the capability to rate specific software's availability. SAP Customer Data Solutions' availability can vary depending on factors like the implementation, infrastructure, and maintenance by the organization using it. To assess its availability, it's best to refer to performance data and user feedback within the specific organization.
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Performance
There are some latency issues. The 24 hour caching problem mentioned earlier is a problem. Sometimes the Gigya system makes two calls instead of a single call if we go directly to the social platform. For this reason, it's sometimes more efficient to go direct rather than use Gigya.
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Support Rating
We have had multiple instances of help from Gigya to get our custom implementation working, including detailed technical assistance to a third party. We have found Gigya to be thorough and timely in their responses to all queries, which are consistently excellent.
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Over the period it took us to set up, we kept going back to their enablement team to help us with the setup, and they were always ready and were very helpful in the entire process. Even with their documentation, they took the time out to help us work through the process. We've never had a message/email unanswered for more than an hour on working days.
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In-Person Training
because it was made directly in the company
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Online Training
They trained me in a train the trainer model. I then trained the internal team. Total training was about two hours, with an additional two hours for system setup.
Training was maybe a little thin, but the system was fairly easy to learn and this wasn't really a problem.
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Implementation Rating
There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, and perhaps we were unclear on some of our requirements. Once they figured out what we wanted though, things went pretty smoothly. Just some minor hiccups in the beginning
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Alternatives Considered
There is a dedicated team for SAP setup that helps in providing specialized or customized services to the user. The platform's accessibility lets us obtain reports and information in real time so we reach clients at the proper moment by optimizing delivery time appealed to us the most.
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Segment is not really suitable for most websites that have more than 10k MTU - If you run a semi-popular website, there are many tools out there that will do basic web analytics, like Google Analytics. Google Analytics provides simple resources for tracking user growth, demographics, and conversion rates of websites, which is more suitable for companies that are looking for simpler analytics data.
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Scalability
because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
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Return on Investment
  • We've been able to curate highly targeted marketing campaigns that resonate with our audience and have improved customer engagement and conversion rates.
  • Using insights from the software, we refined our marketing plans and campaigns for better impact.
  • Our marketing strategies were enhanced through our seamless integration with other marketing tools and platforms, promoting efficiency and accuracy in our marketing initiatives.
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  • Event tracking lets you take ownership of your own data, which in part makes it easy to craft metrics and do deep dives to see how your product is working. This has a huge ROI, because without metrics you're basically flying blind.
  • You can also use Segment's event tracking to fuel your experimentation and AB testing strategies. AB testing is the best way to ship features in a tech product with confidence that you're making a positive impact.
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ScreenShots

SAP Customer Data Solutions Screenshots

Screenshot of Customer Login in SAP Enterprise Consent and Preference ManagementScreenshot of User Identities report dashboardScreenshot of Search by Custom Fields windowScreenshot of Customer Data DataflowScreenshot of Account InformationScreenshot of SAP Customer Data Platform

Twilio Segment Screenshots

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