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Adobe Campaign

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What is Adobe Campaign?

Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.

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Popular Features

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  • Dynamic content (92)
    9.6
    96%
  • Standard reports (91)
    8.8
    88%
  • Dashboards (91)
    8.0
    80%
  • List management (92)
    6.3
    63%

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What is Adobe Campaign?

Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Email & Online Marketing

Using software to manage lists, send emails, automate email campaigns, and track results.

8.8
Avg 7.8

Lead Management

The process of tracking and managing prospective customers from lead generation to conversion.

6.7
Avg 7.7

Campaign Management

Users can schedule campaigns and/or events with reminders, announcements, etc.

8.5
Avg 7.6

Social Media Marketing

Using social media networks to help amplify marketing endeavors.

7.9
Avg 7.5

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

8.5
Avg 7.5

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.3
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is Adobe Campaign?

With Adobe Campaign rich customer data can be used to create, coordinate, and deliver dynamic campaigns — through email, mobile, and offline channels. Adobe Campaign supports central workflow management, personalized email marketing, customer data management, and managed cloud services.

Adobe Campaign Features

Email & Online Marketing Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG email editor
  • Supported: Dynamic content
  • Supported: Ability to test dynamic content
  • Supported: Landing pages
  • Supported: A/B testing
  • Supported: Mobile optimization
  • Supported: Email deliverability reporting
  • Supported: List management
  • Supported: Triggered drip sequences

Campaign Management Features

  • Supported: Calendaring

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Role-based workflow & approvals
  • Supported: Customizability
  • Supported: Integration with Salesforce.com
  • Supported: Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Additional Features

  • Supported: Segmentation and Audience Targeting tools
  • Supported: Program, Activities, & Campaigns Organization
  • Supported: Cross-Channel Orchestration Workflows

Adobe Campaign Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.

Oracle Marketing, HCL Unica, and LeadLife are common alternatives for Adobe Campaign.

Reviewers rate Triggered drip sequences highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Adobe Campaign are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-4 of 4)
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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Campaign is used by the 4 business units of the Global enterprise I worked for. It is the official marketing automation tool across the business used to send out email and SMS communications to its prospects, customers and stakeholders. It is also used as the platform backend for online website forms. The business problem it solves is that when it was rolled-out, the company's direction was to unify the 4 business units into a single marketing automation platform. The goal was to have a unified view of the prospect or customer so it will be easy for us to acquire net new business leads, and convert those leads into a closed/won sale. For existing customers, the goal was more efficient cross-sell and upsell.
  • Big transactional data (eCommerce Transactions)
  • Data segmentation and aggregation
  • Third-party data enrichment
  • B2B enterprise nurture marketing with long sales cycles (6 months - 18 months)
  • Artificial intellgence
  • User Interface
Adobe Campaign is well suited for:
1.) Sending email marketing communications to big email lists (over a million records).
2.) Businesses with short sales cycle - 3 months or less. Businesses that are fast moving and transactional in nature. Examples of companies which may benefit from this platform are financial services, consumer businesses; pure eCommerce websites with direct online sales of fast moving goods and repeat buys.
3.) If you would like to activate email, SMS, direct mail campaign as well as social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in one marketing automation platform.
4.) If you have a specialist Adobe Campaign developer/technical resource as an average/ non-technical marketing manager, [they] may struggle to maximise all its features as some programming is needed for data related activities; setting up API connections and building of templatised automated workflow journeys.

Less appropriate:
1.) Longer B2B sales cycle - if it takes more than 6-18 months for a lead to convert into a sale as its lead nurture capabilities where you build content tracks and streams are harder to setup
2.) If you'd like to track your prospect or customer behaviour through cookies on your website. It's not straightforward to setup.
3.) If you like to keep changing your email templates (as the AC email is sometimes not easily rendered on Microsoft Outlook and other email platforms)
Email & Online Marketing (9)
68.88888888888889%
6.9
WYSIWYG email editor
70%
7.0
Dynamic content
70%
7.0
Ability to test dynamic content
70%
7.0
Landing pages
70%
7.0
A/B testing
70%
7.0
Mobile optimization
70%
7.0
Email deliverability reporting
70%
7.0
List management
90%
9.0
Triggered drip sequences
40%
4.0
Lead Management
N/A
N/A
Campaign Management
N/A
N/A
Social Media Marketing
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics (1)
50%
5.0
Standard reports
50%
5.0
Platform & Infrastructure (5)
60%
6.0
API
50%
5.0
Role-based workflow & approvals
90%
9.0
Customizability
90%
9.0
Integration with Salesforce.com
70%
7.0
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
N/A
N/A
  • Saved the three business units we have of huge marketing automation platform costs for three years
  • Streamlined and centralised our marketing automation operations
  • The downside is that due to the varying nature of businesses and sales cycles of the three business units of the enterprise I worked for, it became hard to tweak one platform into 3 varying, different needs and so many different business models and scenarios.
As we tried to centralise the marketing automation platform within the enterprise, Adobe Campaign can plug into several instances of Salesforce.com for lead management queues. All other marketing automation platforms can only plug into one instance of Salesforce.com.

Adobe Campaign was also able to handle the complexity and challenges of our enterprise data which are a result of years of legacy, mergers and acquisitions and data aggregation.
It does the job. The tool itself is not the problem.

You need to have a person with a strong marketing technology background to fully drive and maximise its capabilities. That person will largely drive the productivity and efficiency of this tool in the same way that a fast racing car is dependent on its driver and the rest of the mechanics that ensure that it performs at its peak levels.

If the marketing leader cannot articulate its business needs from a technology innovation requirements perspective, then they may get frustrated with the tool.

In the three years that I have managed it, the methodology (e.g. user enablement, technical support and digital innovation) that I implemented to use this tool helped the enterprise meet the company's business requirements.

Any enterprise organisation should be ready to invest MORE money on digital transformation initiatives to customise AC according to meet its business needs.
I wished they have standard technical support based in Sydney, Australia and they made it easy for us to access that support.

A lot of the complex technical support questions have to be coursed through Adobe consultants, who charge a premium. And sometimes the answers to some technical questions are not very straightforward. In the end, we contracted a local Adobe Campaign technical partner.
20
Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Operations, Sales, Management
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Campaign is being used mostly for email marketing and lead generation.
  • Powerful tool that supports high levels of customization
  • Sending emails
  • Complicated workflows
  • Have had a lot of support issues.
  • Not easy to use. The interface is very difficult.
  • Requires a full time front end developer to get the most out of it.
Adobe campaign can support some very complicated workflows. It does well with data processing and can integrate (with the correct amount of support) to many other data systems. End-users have a lot of difficulty with the platform. Understanding errors and why they happen is a challenge.
Email & Online Marketing (8)
56.25%
5.6
Dynamic content
70%
7.0
Ability to test dynamic content
60%
6.0
Landing pages
30%
3.0
A/B testing
90%
9.0
Mobile optimization
N/A
N/A
Email deliverability reporting
70%
7.0
List management
70%
7.0
Triggered drip sequences
60%
6.0
Lead Management
N/A
N/A
Campaign Management (1)
20%
2.0
Calendaring
20%
2.0
Social Media Marketing
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics (3)
43.33333333333333%
4.3
Dashboards
50%
5.0
Standard reports
50%
5.0
Custom reports
30%
3.0
Platform & Infrastructure (5)
52%
5.2
API
N/A
N/A
Role-based workflow & approvals
20%
2.0
Customizability
100%
10.0
Integration with Salesforce.com
70%
7.0
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
70%
7.0
50
Field Marketing
Global Marketing
1
Overall support of Adobe Campaign is subpar. I enter tickets that if are not P1 just sit there for weeks. I usually have to raise any issues to my account success rep before they look good.

Priority 1 issues do get looked at immediately.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Neolane is being used to send our paid advertisement emails and our own email campaigns. It is in use by our marketing team and our business teams. We switched from Experian, to Neolane due to the better re-targeting ability that Neolane offered us, and a better integration with our own and partner databases
  • Customizability: if you know what you want and need - Neolane is able to provide you with an environment that should suit your needs.
  • Cross-platform: the ability to manage campaigns - SMS - Email - Social media etc.
  • Analytics: Neolane provides a vast amount of data
  • User interface - it's not modern looking. I wouldn't call it particularly user friendly. And overall it's not highly responsive
  • Debugging: the information given is not always enough and contact with Neolane support needs to be made
  • Resource management: the software in general (the client and the server side) are a tad resource heavy
Smaller less technically staffed companies should avoid it. For mid-size companies with a serious need for a email solution, it might be worth considering if the staff involved in using the product isn't afraid of technically looking stuff. The staff that runs the servers (if it's on-premises deployment) needs to be fairly technical, and willing to dig into issues and errors that will arise.
  • We lowered our overall cost of routing emails, we are now using our own servers with a flat-fee cost for the connection. However against substantial initial investment - cost of deployment and training of staff.
  • Our turnover in email increased by a bit, due to the fact we can route more - and a bit better targeted
  • Employment efficiency went down. Unlike Experian we have now full time 2 people providing technical support. The Client software is slower than the Experian web interface and overall action takes more time. However this is on the shoot-per shoot basis. For the more permanent campaigns the customizability of Neolane is absolutely better (read good)
We used to use Experian, or CheetahMail as it's referred to. Overall with the cost of deployment and training there is not really a way of going back. Given the chance, we probably would have saved ourselves the cost and would have stuck with an SAAS agreement with either Experian or an equivalent.

That is not to say that Adobe's Neolane is a bad product, in fact it's a fairly good product. However it needs a lot of polishing to become the all round pack it should be.
Once you go for Neolane you are a bit stuck with it, so we will most likely stay with Neolane. Cost of investment and training are the main factors at work here. We havesimply have invested too much in the product to stop using it after 2 years.

That said, my score of 8 does not imply that the product is worthy of getting an 8 but reflects our willingness to renew.

Given that upgrading to a new version will cost again a substantial sum, we most likely will keep using the current version we are on which is 6X.
9
Marketing, they work on keeping our customers, and use Neolane to that effect reminding people to get back to our site, special promotions and the like
Business sending emails to our client databases for advertisers, retargetting and making the most of the campaigns ran.
Technical staff provides the support to our agents
4
1 system architect, server management and providing assistance to the operational support when needed.

2 operational support agents, they mainly take care of the back-end - server updates, interaction with the database on a deeper level and providing assistance with "work flows" within Neolane, the things that sales people feel is too technical.

And we have 1 internal consultant, who provides feedback on campaigns (code correction) and can help with technical difficulties encountered. in relation to the Client software (GUI)
  • Email
  • Sms
  • Social
  • Able to link all distribution channels together
  • Re-targeting on a very precise level
Change management was minimal
Yes
I would say that generally the knowledge of the support team we work with is good, great even.
I can't say that they seem to be very interested or involved in trying to make the product work best for us.
They do what needs to be done, and they do it well - but not really going the extra mile.

Yes
Reported many bugs, sometimes they were in our deployment sometimes they were in the software (client side) and at other times they were in the server. Generally speaking the ones in our deployment were resolved rather quickly (except for one perky one they could not get resolved - quite critical as well). The ones in the client side, we usually get the answer to update to the latest version because that one always resolves every bug that you might have.... and if it doesn't well the next version will, so not really useful or satisfying on that level. The server part is a bit like the client software, except for the fact that it's a pain in the ass to update to major new version.
September 27, 2013

Neolane Review

Gibum Kang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easily link live offers and variable information.
  • Direct mail and e-mail are more closely intertwined.
  • UI/UX Interface is very poor; Drop-down menus do not function well, many buttons are unintuitive, lack of quick-save features, cluttered and disorganized menus.
  • When using for e-mail, error messages are extremely vague - it rarely gives enough information to troubleshoot without seeking professional help; loading images is an extremely tedious process; lack of multi-selection load; overall experience is very buggy.
  • No Mac accessibility.
  • Unstable functionality, constant crashes and prompts random error messages that rarely explain the issue.
  • Email development contains too much back-end involvement. Knowing how to write javascript should not be a procedure in the e-mail building process. Implementing simple variable functionality should be done with a click of a button, NOT by writing javascript code manually.
  • Not sure.
Has many UI flaws.
Neolane must update the UI/UX. It is very outdated.
10
BrandMarketing, Customer Relations Marketing and Advertising.
5
  • E-mail development
  • E-mail deployment.
  • Variable content.
StrongMail (StrongView)
  • Vendor implemented
  • Implemented in-house
N/A
  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
No. Training is required due to the outdated UI/UX. On modern day programs, it is much easier to pick up a new software and start learning with minimal training. However, Neolane has to overcome much of its UI/UX capabilities in order to be used with more ease.
Customer Service has been very helpful.
Too many UI flaws
Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
  • Our offers and rewards program.
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