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Adobe Target

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What is Adobe Target?

Adobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management…

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6 out of 10
May 19, 2021
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We are leveraging Adobe Target to constantly optimize our website experience for our users. We are in the process of building an …
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8 out of 10
April 08, 2015
We use it primarily for marketing offers, personalization and UX testing.
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Popular Features

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  • Standard visitor segmentation (9)
    8.6
    86%
  • a/b experiment testing (9)
    8.5
    85%
  • Experiment scheduler (9)
    8.1
    81%
  • Test significance (9)
    7.5
    75%
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What is Adobe Target?

Adobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management products.

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Product Demos

Adobe Target Sample Size Calculator | A/B Testing Tutorial | Usecases for A/B test Sample Size

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Features

Testing and Experimentation

These features enable companies to plan, set up, and execute different types of tests (e.g. A/B, A/B/n, multivariate, split URL tests).

8.1
Avg 8.6

Audience Segmentation & Targeting

A set of tools used for website optimization experiments (e.g. A/B, A/B/n, funnel, split URL, multivariate tests) that can help users segment their audience in to different groups for the purpose of exposing specific audiences to tests or personalization efforts.

8.4
Avg 8.8

Results and Analysis

Tools that allow users to evaluate the results of website optimization tests (e.g. A/B, A/B/n, multivariate, and split URL tests), or view visitor interaction with webpages and specific site elements.

8.1
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is Adobe Target?

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Adobe Target: Test and Optimize Every Experience, Every Time

Adobe Target Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management products.

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Reviews and Ratings

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Richard Hayes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The Web Analytics team are the power users of Test& Target - we're running tests for the entire company across the main website and inside our desktop applications.
  • Advanced targeting capabilities - TnT allows you to write your own JavaScript/Rhino code in situations when the out-of-the-box features aren't enough.
  • Integration with SiteCatalyst - test data is pushed into SiteCatalyst for comprehensive reporting.
  • Rapid test creation - this can be achieved via "local" HTML offers, redirects or referencing AEM/CQ5 components.
  • Documentation - the current docs are fine for the basics but when you want to do the advanced stuff it sucks and Client Care aren't that helpful with the tricky questions.
  • Standard - the new 'Standard' WYSIWYG version of TnT is very new so I'll be kind however it's full of bugs and unusable - hopefully this will be fixed soon as it looks to have a lot of potential.
  • QAing your tests - the Onsite feature has never worked properly in all the time I have used it. I've been told by people at Adobe not to use the feature.
It's a very flexible tool with some great features however you'll need to have users that understand your business but are also technically savvy. If you don't have the right people/person then you may want to consider something easier to use ..saying that I believe the Standard version that was recently released has tried to address this however it's a beta product right now with more than a few issues.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Great for pushing content quickly to site and tracking success metrics.
  • Ease of use for marketers, but ability to become more complex for technical web development.
  • Needs to be integrated with Adobe Marketing Suite, primarily SiteCatalyst. Does not even integrate well with the suite even though it is from the same product line.
  • Can get very confusing and detailed. Need to spend a good bit of time training on it.
  • Adobe recommends mBoxes around each area you want to test. This is not needed, save your time and money and place a global mBox on the page and run tests with some basic JavaScript and jQuery.
Try not to let your company begin using it as a CMS. Will start drifting that way with the ease of use but will only cause problems in the long term over what actually works.
October 23, 2013

Adobe T&T

Brett Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It tracks and monitors visitors, conversion and dozens of site metrics. T&T allows us to present several different experiences to consumers while monitoring the success of each change.
  • It does not always work with other software platforms such as Demandware.
If you are interested in doing web testing for any small, medium, or large organization T&T is the only software program you should should consider.
October 21, 2013

T&T Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Multiple options to split the traffic across different segments. For example, we test campaigns sent out on weekdays versus weekends, and we do some multivariate testing on various combinations of creative and embedded pricing. Since most of our campaigns are national in scope, we don't use the geo segmenting capabilities.
  • The product is quite intuitive and easy-to-use.
  • Conversion reports are very helpful.
  • We can manage multiple tests simultaneously.
  • Impression volume cannot be segmented after the fact. If I did not create the segment up-front, I cannot segment the data on the back end. We use SiteCatalyst do do this.
Paul Labrise | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Test & Target is an excellent means to understand and quantify any user experience solutions your business needs to achieve.
  • Large scale tests combined with incremental changes will whip your web properties into shape. You will better understand your customers, as well as your success metrics. In the scope of a campaign, you can better understand the behavior of your audience by setting up specific success metrics (i.e. clicks on specific nav items, white paper downloads, page landings, etc.) alongside your primary conversions (i.e. form fill, purchase, application, etc.)
  • Test & Target is an excellent solution for directing traffic to the appropriate web properties. By targeting specific users, you will have the ability to set up parameters which determine the content which you want the customer to view.
  • Test & Target undergoes product updates on a regular basis, making its capabilities more robust. You must be analytic AND creative to use Test & Target to its fullest potential.
  • Be careful to not rack up too many server calls - this can be a costly endeavor. If you're in a large corporation which can afford mass quantities of server calls per year, then you won't have to be as concerned. If you are a small company, you must be more prudent and use T&T for specific campaigns which have a life span, can warrant specific results, and do not linger on. De-activating mboxes within T&T is a great way to disable mboxes without bugging IT or your web developers about removing/adding mboxes every time you want to run a campaign.
  • T&T is client-side user experience testing, meaning what the customer sees is based on their specific visit in a specific web browser - and the experience is controlled by T&T during the lifespan of the cookie. This is not a fault of T&T, but it is necessary to understand. As you build and QA campaigns, you still have to check the experience in ALL browsers and you have to be aware that a user visiting your site on more than one computer may see different experiences based on how they were routed in the test campaign.
Let go of your preconceptions about what you think will win a user experience test, but keep hold of your marketing savvy.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The features and navigation are very intuitive.
  • Reports are very informative with ability to create custom segments to help analyze results from different angles.
  • Setting up campaigns is very straightforward. Anyone could do it with basic training of the tool. And Adobe offers assistance for questions when setting up campaigns.
  • Adobe also offers assistance for technical support for setting up offers, but it's limited.
  • It relies on mbox and depending on how they are implemented, you may need to rely on your IT team to implement additional mboxes for certain tests.
  • To set up test offers, most of the time you will need to have knowledge of html and css. And depending on how the mboxes are implemented, you could be heavily relying on jQuery to manipulate the elements on your site for test offers.
  • There is no WYSIWYG interface for you to highlight elements on your site while creating offers, which could be useful for users with less front end development experience.
Adobe Test & Target is a tool that delivers what it says, it offers insightful results to help improve user experience and performance. However, it does require thoughtful planning, road map, proper technical staff in order to fully maximize the potential of it and leverage its capabilities to benefit your operation. But that is not the problem of the software, it is the preparation the team is required to have in order to succeed with this tool.
Jeremiah Graham, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • In the primary uses in which we use T&T, it helps with the delivery of content.
  • T&T helps segment the users we are targeting during the promotional period we are using the system for.
  • I have not run into any issues with our current usage.
Overall, I really enjoy using Test & Target. The system has provided some much needed robustness to our promotions when we need it. It has helped create a really great user experience during the promotions for which we have used T&T, and our customers seem to be really attracted to the responsiveness we are able to create while using Test & Target
October 15, 2013

Test & Target Review

Bryant Hoopes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Allows for A/B and MVT Testing very well.
  • Provides detailed reporting.
  • Relatively simple implementation.
  • Allows marketers to test content without IT involvement.
  • Implementation is dated now compared to other tools.
  • Some of the 'flexibility' of the tool actually makes it more complex.
Recommended that you have a staff that is trained and committed to the software.
Sarah Schick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The product interface is very easy to use. Tests are easy to set up and manage.
  • From the development standpoint, tests are not any easier to set up than they would be manually. They actually are more complicated and provide more work to our development team.
  • The software is extremely expensive. You cannot segment your tests or campaigns by geo-targeting, for example, unless you pay extra for that portion of the package.
  • Customer service was easy to get into contact with, but your consulting time with them is very limited, and they weren't always knowledgeable about the issues you needed help with.
  • The software is mainly centered around the "Target" portion of the product (I would say about 75% of the product is devoted to this). Once testing completes, there are many options to push your winning campaigns live and target them to specific segments. Unfortunately this adds to the expense of the software; you pay by impressions. We also use an external ad display software. For these reasons, we did not use any of the targeting portion of the product, which left 75% of it unusable.
  • Test results are real-time, but we found they weren't always accurate. For example, when we would implement the winning campaign from a test, we often found no drastic improvement in conversion, or sometimes it even converted worse.
If your website is lighter in traffic and you have the money to pay for this software, it is good for serving ads and targeting user segments. But if you are comfortable with doing this process manually and have a good development team to help you, it would be better to save your investment.
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