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Pros
Customization Flexibility: Reviewers have praised the platform for its high level of customization, allowing for bespoke metrics tailored to specific business needs. Some users appreciate the flexibility in data structure and allocation, which enables them to manipulate and analyze data according to their requirements.
Usability and Efficiency: Users have noted the platform's usability, especially within the Workspace module, as it enables efficient and effective work processes. The intuitive drag-and-drop functionality for ad hoc analysis and custom variable creation is particularly valued by reviewers.
Comprehensive Insights and Reporting Capabilities: Reviewers find the platform superior in providing in-depth analysis that surpasses other similar solutions in the market. They appreciate its comprehensive insights, powerful reporting capabilities, integration with other Adobe products, and limitless segmentation capabilities for detailed analytics and reporting.
We prime, we use Adobe Analytics for web behavioral tracking across all of our properties. It primarily started out as a service that we offered for our marketing group at Western Governors University. But since we are a completely online university, it quickly expanded to offer behavioral analytics to multiple parts of the organization. Not just our marketing website, but also our enrollment portal, as well as our student portal. Our task assessment. We also use it for our internal employee sites for analytics on the usage of our employees' internal employee resources and internal-facing websites. Our alumni engagement sites. And those are the main ones that we do. The business problems we're trying to address with this product are specifically about behavior optimization or analysis, helping us understand whether we're solving for friction points in the user experience, especially the digital user experience. Optimizing our understanding of the key drivers to success on our site. From a marketing perspective, we regularly track and report on the digital touch points that our users interface with, especially our marketing activities, whether they're coming to our site via email, through a paid advertisement, or finding us through Google search. We primarily rely on Adobe Analytics to help us understand the effectiveness of those marketing campaigns. And a as well as keep a good eye on what the client or user experience is like from a performance perspective operationally how well are, are pages loading and how quickly are the pages loading for them? And yeah, are they following the ideal paths or hitting roadblocks in their conversion journeys on each site?
Pros
This product, Adobe Analytics, does a great job of helping us. I think it, it, it does an excellent job of outlining every step of the user journey, as well as giving a good, strong framework to work with as it relates to attribution, attribution of marketing data, and marketing channels, and how, where our users are coming from, how effective those marketing activities are.
Cons
Adobe Analytics has room to improve in its approachability, especially to less technical users and more business-oriented users. There's a bit of a learning curve with Adobe Analytics compared to some of its competitors and other options out there. So it can seem a little overwhelming or daunting for newer users to onboard onto the product and, and take it full advantage of its capabilities. It is by far the most customizable product, but that also introduces a lot of complexity that can be tricky for some people to overcome. the only other area where I think Adobe Analytics could improve on specifically would be its capabilities to report on time between events that occur so analytically, it's, it excels in pretty much every area that we need it to for behavioral analytics, but except for the fact that it does not do a great job at visualizing or reporting on the average time it takes between any two points or any two events that occur on the site.
Likelihood to Recommend
Honestly, because Adobe Analytics is so customizable, I found that it is very well-suited for almost any type of web digital experience tracking of behavioral analytics. It has a very robust mech architecture for any type of e-commerce platform. But it is extensible and is easily adaptable to other circumstances. For example, in our university situation, we've been able to use it for student portal experience tracking, how well they are interacting, interfacing with our internal sites, and how well they are working with our task submission processes. But it does a great job of managing all aspects of the key journeys, especially from a marketing perspective. So while it might not be as out-of-the-box for some of those other alternative use cases outside of marketing, it's extensible and customizable enough that it's worked really well and met our needs.
Not just my role, but more broadly in the organization. We use it to measure the performance of our site, the visitors that we're bringing into the website to understand what they're doing, what they're interested in, and the actions that they're taking. How to create a better user experience for visitors coming to our website. We want them to be able to find what they're looking for and take the right actions. It's the data and analytics that equip us to improve what we're doing.
Pros
Within my role of advertising, I can come in, and I can see I'm paying for visitors, paying to drive people to the website. So I can see the differences in my different traffic sources, whether that's a Google search campaign or a Facebook social campaign. I can measure the quality of that traffic and see what they're doing, whether they're bouncing right away and leaving the website, or spending more or less time on the website. And whether they're taking the actions. My ad campaign is focused on filling out forms, and ultimately, that's it. Just measure and see if my campaigns are successful or not.
Cons
The tool is heavily a drag and drop kind of dashboard. You're building dashboards on the fly. So oftentimes, I learn my process and how to do things I'm comfortable with, that I can repeat, and get those answers on a consistent basis. But oftentimes, I may not find it easy to take it to the next level. So, areas that can improve are recommending or suggesting. Here's what you might try to improve in this report that you're looking at. Try adding in this metric, or try splicing it this way. Oftentimes, I feel like it requires me to go off and learn these techniques on the side, versus having them right there within the tool. Those recommendations, those helpful tips, and tricks.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for everything. I do because my advertising platforms will show me where I'm spending money and where I'm getting clicks, but you don't know anything beyond that. I always have to go into Adobe Analytics to see what those clicks are getting me. Are they actually visiting the website and doing anything we want them to do? And advertising, you can't just spend money without the results. So it allows me to close that loop and show the actions, in some cases, revenue, and the ROI for spending money. What's the return in revenue that we're getting? So I use it for everything. I can't look at the data that's in it. Adobe Analytics, when you live in the world of advertising, the contrary, you said, when would I not use it? So there are some instances where I'll go to a different sales-focused reporting platform or Salesforce reporting. Adobe Analytics is currently in our world at ESRI, but we don't have all that Salesforce data in Adobe Analytics. So that means I don't always go there for that sales-related data. I go into other reporting platforms to see that.
Our team is using this solution to understand the user behaviour or interaction that is going on our applications. It easily track customer processes and behaviour. It tools helps us to improve out services and user experience on the basis of the reports outputs. Reporting dashboard gives us the realtime insights across all the applications. Customer tracking related to the journey and events is really smooth and efficient.
Pros
Superb tool to track customer behaviour and journey.
Dashboard reporting is very flexible for doing real time analysis and segmentation.
Better business decision making on the basis of reports.
Cons
Interface very complex when creating customised reports.
Large datasets creates issues like feel slow to rendering.
Limited 3rd party tools integrations sometimes requires technical efforts.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is robust solution that we are using to know our customer insights, having strong data segmentation capability with conversion flow is incredible. It helps a lot in improving of services and user experience.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Usage, any issues that we would potentially have with users not being able to get to where they need to, any login problems, campaign tracking, those things.
Pros
Page views, visits, unique visitors, campaign IDs, creating segments, loading those segments into other products like Target or personalized content on our website.
Cons
I think the learning curve is tremendously hard. There’s no guide or charted path for a beginner user to get to where they need to go—they kind of get thrown a blank slate, and you don’t know where to start.
Likelihood to Recommend
My experience is primarily just on the web. It’s well suited for product tracking funnels, and there are areas where it’s not as well suited.
In our organization, we use Adobe Analytics to gain a better understanding of our customers. In a networking and security organization like ours, it is very important to understand customer expectations and align with market trends. So we use this tool to understand our market- viz our customers, their activities over our different products, etc
Pros
User behaviour monitoring.
Threat awareness and signaling anomalies.
Lead intelligence.
Marketing intelligence.
Compliance with a proper reporting.
Seamless integration with our internal tools.
Cons
Initial learning of the tool takes time and training from some expert
The real time insights may be inaccurate slightly
Lacks some real time visualisation
Likelihood to Recommend
Well-suited for companies looking from a customer perspective. They can gain a deep understanding of market trends, customer activities, and where third-party integration is expected. Less suitable for small-scale organizations due to the cost of the tool; otherwise, really useful and productive.
Use Adobe Analytics to see how people move through our app. What features they use, where they drop off, and what keeps them coming back. It helps spot weak points, track conversions, and test changes. I mainly rely on it for funnels, segmentation, and figuring out what’s actually driving engagement and retention.
Pros
Being highly customizable.
Funnel clarity.
Cross channel attribution.
Cons
Detecting UI friction workflows.
Comparing segments.
Complexifying workflows
Likelihood to Recommend
I use analytics when I need deep funnel analysis, cross-channel attribution, or detailed segmentation for a large-scale app. It’s not the best for scrappy analysis or early-stage products since setup is a bit heavy and flexibility is limited.
We use Adobe Analytics to help us understand the stakeholders that visit our web page. Then, it allow us to identify the traffic on the web page, most important content pages and resources from those visits. All of this is made taking into account the different languages for our web service, so we are able to see the visitor behavior and help us to create more content and display it in different ways. If you want to know how certain group of stakeholders interact with our page, Adobe Analytics allow us to take better decisions and test new content.
Pros
Report performance
Identify resources and channels
Save historical data
chance to create your own view
Share projects with people inside our dptm/area
Cons
Please make it faster when loading data
Templates for custom reports
URL analysis should be great (to see 1 landing page performance)
World Map for visitors
AI for creation custom reports
Likelihood to Recommend
If you manage a page with multiple countries and/or languages, Adobe Analytics is for you. You will be able to create a custom report and sort all your web just by using one selection box. This will save a lot of time as you don't need to jump from different browsers tabs trying to get the info required to fulfill your report. Also, if you want to filter the Bots traffic and get better metrics, Adobe Analytics will help you to get cleaner metrics and make better decisions. If, by any chance, you have a simple webpage with not much content, modules or services, this tool is overpower for you. Please reconsider using it when you have a strong base of visits or services
Our organization uses Adobe Analytics to view performance. It helps us track which suppliers are doing a good job and which ones need more attention. We also use it to create multiple visualizations and flow reports to understand the data.
Pros
User group has each own customization view
Integration
Data analysis
Cons
Can be expensive
Can be complex for first time users
Not being able to edit in some cases
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for mid sized companies that are big enough to have engineering and data users.
Less appropiate for small/ newer companies with less data and analytics
I use Adobe Analytics to track how audiences find and engage with our films and campaigns, including traffic sources and views. I also use it to better understand my audience, such as where they’re located and what content they engage with, which informs distribution and outreach decisions, especially for documentaries. On the client side, it provides clear performance data, such as engagement and conversions, helping us demonstrate impact and support creative choices.
Pros
Tracking
Reporting
Organizing
Cons
Can be difficult to learn.
Expensive
Interface isn't intuitive.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well-suited for multi-platform film campaigns and branded content projects where tracking audience journeys and delivering detailed performance reports is important. It's less appropriate for small, quick-turn projects or teams without technical support.
We are suggesting or implementing for our customers and basically end goal is to provide them holistic view about how website is actully behaving or where they are loosing their customers. Adobe Analytics with Adobe Commerce actually best combo and provide complete flow reports and we can easily identify where customers are lossing there focus and leave website which directly affect on revenue.
Pros
Drag and Drop UI
Segmentation
Reports and Analysis
Cons
Difficult to join with external data like CRM
Limited export capability
Incorrect data cost hard sometimes
Likelihood to Recommend
I'm giving 9 here because I'm aware with another Adobe's product which is Customer Journey Analytics. Well both product's target market is actually different and compare to Adobe Customer Joureny Analytics; Adobe Analytics implementation is simple. If you are targeting limites like website and mobile app only then you need to use Adobe Analytics only and performance very well.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Professional Services (201-500 employees)