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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

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsVisual Studio
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of SAP Customer Data Solutions and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.8
    27 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    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 Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.5
    28 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation8.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control4.327 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization9.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of SAP Customer Data Solutions and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    6.4
    29 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
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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 Storage2.529 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Visibility8.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Data6.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identity Resolution8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Customer Data SolutionsVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (58 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (57 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 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 SolutionsVisual Studio
    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
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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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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.
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    Microsoft
    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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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.
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    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
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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
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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    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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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    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.
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    Microsoft
    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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    Microsoft
    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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    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    because it was made directly in the company
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    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    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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    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    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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    Microsoft
    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.
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
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    Microsoft
    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
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    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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    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