Solid Product for Users of the Wider Adobe Stack
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Adobe audience Manager is a solid DMP but beginning to show its age in terms of its utility without using additional adobe products (Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform) to incorporate additional first party profiles and data points. When used with the full adobe stack it can be a powerful tool for activation across third party platforms and for brokering of data between enterprises. Overall, a solid product, but I’m waiting for it to be absorbed into the AEP stack instead of remaining a separate tool in the Experience Cloud.
Pros
- 2nd Party Data Brokering & Exchanges
- 3rd Party Platform Data Activation
- 1st Party Data Profiling and User Stitching
Cons
- Loosing functionality with the Death of 3rd Party Data
- Half Absorbed Functionality by AEP User Profiles
- No ability to sub-invoice for larger enterprises with multiple stakeholder groups
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are already using multiple other pieces of the Adobe Experience Cloud stack, adobe audience manager is an easy choice. It allows for quick and easy data activation for your first and potentially brokered 2nd party data. However this product will likely be absorbed into the adobe experience platform (AEP) soon. In the end I would wait to see where adobe is truly headed with this product before investing heavily without additional heavy adobe investments.