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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Customer Data Solutions

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AUnivention Corporate Server (UCS) is an open integration platform which, with Nubus, offers centralized Identity and Access Management with a web portal for easy access to applications and enables the management of heterogeneous IT domains through comprehensive Active Directory functions. - Portal with Single Sign- On - Integrated Identity and Access Management - Packaged integrations - App Center with enterprise applications - Active Directory…

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    Pricing
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    UCS Core Edition
    $0.00
    per installation
    UCS Core Edition
    $0.00
    per installation
    UCS Base Subscription
    $382.00
    per installation
    UCS Base Subscription
    $382.00
    per installation
    UCS Standard Subscription
    $1295.00
    per installation
    UCS Standard Subscription
    $1295.00
    per installation
    UCS Premium Subscription
    $2250.00
    per installation
    UCS Premium Subscription
    $2250.00
    per installation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—The core edition of UCS is free, but does not offer a great deal of support. There are three different subscription options (for either On-Premise- or SAAS deplyoment) which include the installation of UCS and apps, support and maintainance via phone, security updates and hotfixes, domain services and much more.
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Univention
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of SAP Customer Data Solutions and Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.8
    27 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
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    Ratings
    Tag library7.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping7.824 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags7.825 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution7.825 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page load times7.925 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging7.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions7.623 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of SAP Customer Data Solutions and Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.5
    28 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
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    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation8.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control4.227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization9.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of SAP Customer Data Solutions and Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    6.4
    29 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
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    Ratings
    Account Scoring8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance8.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Connectors4.329 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enhancement5.229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion6.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Storage2.429 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Visibility8.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Data6.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identity Resolution8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of SAP Customer Data Solutions and Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    -
    Ratings
    Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (58 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (57 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsUnivention Corporate Server (UCS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    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
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    Univention Corporate Server is well suited:
    1. If an Organization would like to use it as a complete Active Directory Server.
    2. If an Organization wants to deploy other applications which are important like SSO, Mail Server, 2FA etc., as with one click all these Apps will be integrated magically thus reducing the Admin job considerably.
    3. Web based management which will be quite useful for the Admins who are from Windows background only.
    4. Univention as a company which has close to 2 decades of experience.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • SAP's Customer Data Solutions provide a comprehensive customer view by collecting detailed data, including age, web activity, and buying history.
    • The software's strong analytics features give valuable information about how customers use content and products, so we can enhance our strategies.
    • SAP Customer Data Solutions offers insights to create specific marketing campaigns that sort audiences by preferences, browsing, and purchase behavior.
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    • Complete replacement for MS Active Directory Server.
    • Univention App Center - awesome concept with which Apps can be installed for the Domain.
    • App Center can be compared to Google Play Store or Apple Play Store - Organizations can gain tremendous advantages.
    • Plethora of Apps which are both free and paid and excellent apps for the Organizations.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    • As Univention is from Germany, lot of informative articles are in German but English articles are also good but less in number.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    On the whole I am really impressed with SAP Customer Data Solutions and would highly recommend that other professionals look at this software to enhance their B2C and B2B sales
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    SAP
    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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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    The platform pulls data from multiple sources, cleaning, and restructuring it allowing us to expand our growth opportunities by providing highly tailored suggestions on each page for our visitors which made it tremendously simple for us to provide rich and customized experiences to our visitors in the best way possible.
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    SAP
    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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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    SAP
    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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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    SAP
    because it was made directly in the company
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    SAP
    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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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    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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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    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 integrations can be difficult and may call for programming experience.
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    We have evaluated Zentyal and ClearOS but we found out that UCS is more suited to every Organization.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • Having a single, stremlined point of entry for the customers improves the overall customer experience
    • By the same reason, maintenance costs are reduced because interventions focus on a single object
    • It's versatile in its integration so there is no need to change the surrounding software ecosystem
    Incentivized
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    Univention
    • As a partner, we have gained lot of respect from our customers as UCS is rock solid.
    • UCS is truly Open Source.
    • UCS has surpassed our expectations.
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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

    Univention Corporate Server (UCS) Screenshots

    Screenshot of an overview of the UCS Management ConsoleScreenshot of the UCS App Center displaying a few of the available appsScreenshot of user administration in UCSScreenshot of a view of the OpenLDAP directory in UCSScreenshot of the establishment of an Active Directory connection with UCS