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What is Heap?

Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to…

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Heap is a highly versatile analytics platform that has been widely used by organizations to collect and analyze customer data. Users have …
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Solid Data Tool

7 out of 10
December 15, 2022
Incentivized
Heap is currently used across my whole organization and has helped us to democratize our data greatly. The tool allows all employees …
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Heap Product analytics

9 out of 10
December 03, 2022
Incentivized
We are using Heap to track and analyze user interactions on the product and determine adoption, usage and other funnel related statistics. …
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Heap Review

8 out of 10
December 03, 2022
Incentivized
In our company, we need to build customer's digital journey because we are not following well our customer nor understand them.
So we are …
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Good product

6 out of 10
December 03, 2022
Incentivized
We want to see what is happening in our products and assess the users experiences. We wanted to see what features they are using most and …
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
Up to 10k sessions/month

Growth

Starting at $3,600 annually

Cloud
Up to 300k sessions/year

Pro

Contact Heap Sales

Cloud
Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Fibonacci Heap Demo

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Imogen Heap Performance with Musical Gloves Demo

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PANASONIC - BREAD MAKER (SD-P104) - (DEMO) BY HEAP SENG GROUP

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HAPPYCALL - 'DIAMOND' DOUBLE PAN (DEMO) BY HEAP SENG GROUP

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Heap: A Smarter Approach to Product

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The Gloves Music Controller Demo with Imogen Heap | Digital Transformation

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Product Details

What is Heap?

Heap analyzes datasets to illuminate hidden insights within the user’s digital journey, to act with confidence. Heap helps to see and understand every single thing users do, so product and marketing teams know where to make the most impactful improvements to the digital product or website.
  • Improve customer experience: Pinpoint exactly where users are struggling and make improvements to the customer experience, driving an intuitive, enjoyable user experience.
  • Speed time-to-market and optimize the impact of product and business teams: Rather than relying purely on gut instinct, leverage digital engagement data to test hypotheses and answer questions as they arise. With data-driven insights, confidently bring new features & experiences to market.
  • Build increasingly valuable features and experiences: Leverage data to build consensus on engineering investments that can be clearly tied to business outcomes.
Over 8,000 businesses use Heap to drive business impact by delivering better experiences and better products. Customers include companies in B2B SaaS, eCommerce, and Financial Services such as Twilio, Logitech, Snapfish, Eventbrite, Esurance, Northwestern Mutual, and e*Trade.

Heap Features

  • Supported: Autocapture (Codelessly capture every interaction/event in a product or website)
  • Supported: Event Visualizer (Locate, tag and name events with this tool)
  • Supported: Data Engine (Data Dictionary and Governance tools provide control and organization of data)
  • Supported: APIs (Augment data with flexible APIs)
  • Supported: Sources (Import data from other tools)
  • Supported: Reporting and Dashboards (Get insights on activation, retention, conversion, engagement and other key digital/product metrics)
  • Supported: Ad-hoc Analysis (Retention, Conversion, Funnel, Cohort analysis, etc)
  • Supported: Heap Connect (Bring user data with managed ETL into warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift)
  • Supported: Heap Activate (Drive action base on Heap data via connectors to Appcues, Marketo, Intercom, and Salesforce)

Heap Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.

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Heap Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, APAC
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.

Heap starts at $0.

Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, and Google Analytics 360 are common alternatives for Heap.

Reviewers rate Support Rating and Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Heap are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Heap Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)40%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)20%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Heap is a highly versatile analytics platform that has been widely used by organizations to collect and analyze customer data. Users have found Heap to be a powerful tool for automatically tracking customer behavior and understanding their journey. From keeping metrics in check and tracking against key performance indicators, Heap has proved its effectiveness. It has helped teams track the performance of newly released features, identify areas for improvement, and understand both user and system behavior of applications.

Heap has been valuable in enhancing the understanding of customer behavior, improving user engagement, identifying pain points, and mapping out the user journey. It enables organizations to validate hypotheses, pilot test new features, and determine the success of those features. Users appreciate how Heap helps them identify issues in the user experience, summarize interactions, and ultimately improve the overall user experience. By delving into customers' digital journeys, Heap allows companies to better design processes, increase platform usage, and pinpoint areas of easiness and difficulty for customers.

In addition to these applications, Heap serves as a powerful tool for tracking and analyzing user interactions, determining adoption and usage statistics, segmenting users into multiple buckets, verifying default assumptions, locating friction points in processes, building customers' digital journey, creating graphs and charts for analysis in various industries such as healthcare and finance. Heap also supports funnel optimization by providing insights into drop-off points and channel performance. Whether it's the product team making data-driven decisions or marketing personnel measuring traffic sources and conversions, Heap offers valuable analytics data across different functions within organizations.

Overall, users rely on Heap to gain deep insights into user behavior, make informed business decisions, improve user experience based on audience segments, track conversion rates and usage patterns, measure product performance against competitors. It helps understand customer engagement with websites or apps, extract insights on users' tendencies within pages or forms. It evaluates clicks and funnels while monitoring various metrics such as conversions, page views, enrollment rates, etc. Heap's ability to provide comprehensive data analyses, flexible tracking capabilities, and valuable input for product decisions has made it an essential analytics tool for companies seeking to improve their understanding of customer behavior and drive business growth.

Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface: Users have consistently praised Heap for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. It has been mentioned by many reviewers that the interface makes navigation and task completion easy.

Highly Praised Event Visualizer Tool: The event visualizer tool in Heap has received high praise from users for simplifying the process of defining elements to track engagement without the need for additional coding. Several reviewers have highlighted this feature as a standout aspect of the platform.

Auto-Capture Feature: Many users appreciate Heap's auto-capture feature, which automatically records all events on their website. This eliminates the need for manual tracking and saves valuable time for businesses. The convenience provided by this feature has been highly regarded by multiple reviewers.

Confusing User Interface: Several users have expressed frustration with the user interface, particularly when it comes to defining reports. They feel that the current approach is confusing and suggest a simpler and more intuitive design.

Difficulties with Filtering and Group-by Selection: A number of users have encountered difficulties while filtering events in the graph report. Additionally, they mention that the group-by selection often gets reset in funnel reports, causing inconvenience and extra effort.

Steep Learning Curve: Users have found the learning curve for using the platform to be steep. Many feel that technical knowledge is required to use it proficiently, which can be a barrier for non-technical or less experienced users.

  • Implement Heap as soon as possible to start capturing all analytics and defining events easily. Prioritize creating a data strategy beforehand, including key performance indicators (KPIs) and meaningful analytics for the organization.
  • Complement Heap with other analytics tools to cover everything not planned for in regular analytics. Consider using Heap as a separate tracking system compared to traditional tools like Omniture or Google Analytics.
  • Thoroughly learn the documentation of Heap to fully utilize its capabilities. Do not hesitate to reach out to Heap support for assistance with any questions that arise.

Users also find Heap valuable for understanding user behavior, making data-oriented decisions, and improving products. They appreciate its ability to capture all analytics and save time by enabling more employees to build out analytics.

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Madison Sophia Bennett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The use of Heap in the company is focused on the development of automated data collection and processing systems. [We use this] to obtain a complete analysis of different areas that require tools with robust analysis systems that can provide verifiable reports to know the possible changes that we must perform. [This allows our] clients [to] feel that we are continuously working to satisfy their needs and also to increase our vision of events and projects in relation to the data that we manage to process in Heap. Although Heap is not the only solution that we are implementing to perform data analysis of the behavior and interests of customers in the company, we can use this tool for more specific aspects that result in productivity growth in high percentages.
  • Robust automated analysis of customer behavior and interests helps make the necessary changes.
  • Heap has a fast and powerful data collection and processing system that takes into account every specific detail related to the web.
  • It also generates reports after data analysis that help my team to know the possible changes that we must make.
  • Heap is an intuitive tool that has good analytics and I don't really see anything negative about this product.
  • The usability is good, the technical support is attentive, it performs automated data analysis and also generates robust reports, these are the best features of this software and they are the ones that give me a satisfactory opinion.
Heap is more appropriate in scenarios that require rapid analysis of customer behavior and interests, such as events and projects on the web that have to have a robust data collection system and information processing of mutual interest between customers. Another plus point to recommend is the technical support made up of attentive, friendly, and expert people who are always available.
December 15, 2022

Solid Data Tool

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is currently used across my whole organization and has helped us to democratize our data greatly. The tool allows all employees access to performance data and empowers users from various departments to engage in site testing by simplifying the reporting process. We use it for everything from tracking daily health metrics to making large-scale decisions about test performance.
  • Data readability
  • Increasing reporting confidence
  • Including more thorough definitions
  • Documentation on suggested data manipulations across industries
Heap is well suited to be used across Digital, Performance Marketing, and Operations departments in particular. Other less technical-focused employees may have difficulty utilizing it due to the lack of definitions included around terms & lack of walkthrough documentation provided.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is much better compared to Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics as I can label the user tracking events on an adhoc basis. It allows me to get insights quicker and make much better-informed decisions.

Team is now able to track how newly released features and releases recently gone live are performing and helps us get observability level as to what we can be done better for those that aren't performing upto the expectations. Heap is a great tool to help us understand how exactly users are engaging with our platform and what they see as trouble areas.

It helped us summarise out numerous interactions that are used to identify issues in the user experience.
  • Intuitive Dashboard
  • Frequent Releases from Heap team
  • Funnel Analysis
  • Custom Property Filters are lacking
  • Missing Integrations with Industry standard tools
Well suited for tracking adhoc custom events and helped identify specific use-cases which we did not realized were important for our platform.
Anmol Dubey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The majority of our experience has been pleasant. With Heap, you have the ability and freedom to assess the user experience of your website at the most fundamental level and then build upon it. This tool, which again operates right out of the box, is the easiest available for determining how each button, design, feature, functionality, page, and tool affects our consumers.
  • Flexibility in how context-relevant data layers are displayed.
  • Easy and seamless integration with other tools we use like Kameleoon.
  • Various options for reports.
  • Excellent user experience overall.
  • Customer support has to be improved.
  • There may occasionally be some bothersome glitches.
  • To be able to use the platform, you do need to undergo proper training.
For web/app event tracking, we utilize Heap. As a technology business, we rely heavily on the product analysis tool's successful deployment and tracking capabilities. Heap's quick chart generation and dashboard features are truly intended for product analytics. Although it may fall short for large enterprise-level businesses, it is excellent for small to medium websites and applications.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap was used and tested for an insights platform. It can enhance the understanding of any type of customer behaviour and path. These insights can be used for better design of processes, understand the user experience, as well as make them use the platforms more. It can pinpoint areas of easiness and difficulty for the customers and this way enable solutions.
  • visualisation
  • provide insights
  • focus on pain points
  • features
  • stability
  • simplicity
It is well suited to enhance understanding of any type of user behaviour when moving in a platform. These can then be used to enhance the user experience or the launching of more featurest that the uses deems important. It can also pinpoint items that seem difficult or complex for the users.

It lacks functionalities to make it fully customisable and this is a point that it might need some improvement.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
How you use Heap in your organization?
We use Heap to auto-capture every user interaction in our website. it used by the product and marketing teams to better understand user behavior, find errors, and make more informed decisions about product changes.

What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case?
When one of our users informs us that he has encountered an issue with our site we use Heap to define events retroactively and immediately do analysis on those events.
  • Automates away the annoying parts of user analytics
  • Can define which pages people were on, what element they clicked on, the color of the button, the target text on the click, the actions users took before and after clicking, the users’ titles, what other actions users who click that button tend to take
  • Make some deeper and more specific tutorials for the tool
  • Heap does not work for native mobile apps because it doesn’t offer a way to define custom events
Scenarios when Heap was well suited:
It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message.

Scenarios where it is less appropriate:

Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app
Zeel Pandya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we're having company portfolio site that we recently redesigned. to ensure optimal ROI, we went to the market and stumbled upon this magnificent gem of a tool.
even non-technical staff at our office seems to work with Heap just fine. it is heavily dependent on visual aspect like UI/UX. by no means, I'm implying that their backend logic is not sound. its advance and uses latest AI and ML practices to derive its results. they manage a perfect balance and gives best of both worlds.
some of the useful features that we heavily used were, session replay. we pin-pointed customers from certain industry and analyzed their behavior. for example one of our well established customer already had their applications running in cloud, they specifically navigated to the DR (disaster recover) part on the page. after collecting this insight, we approached them and it was a hit. we're now serving them DR solutions.
  • session replays
  • shows visual indicators of where users have clicked
  • effort analysis to detect UX improvements
  • pricing would be a likely aspect
  • speed seems to suffer a bit but at this massive scale, its not much to complain
  • customer service response was a bit sluggish
least likely usage for this is to analyze a low traffic site. we particularly have fair amount of traffic so the matrix in end result are somewhat useful. if you're likely new company and have nominal traffic, you might work on your SEO first then leap forward for something like Heap.
it is optimal when used with nominal amount of traffic and have fair amount of analysts who can manage and utilize all this insights.
Rubu Gogoi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is mainly used to analyze the user interaction data. It captures the customer data to identify their behaviour to identify the pain points and optimize them for better customer experience
  • Extract data on specific customer activities
  • Real time reports can be extracted
  • Providing charts and graphs to understand data points effectively
  • Comparing data of different time funnel can be optimized
  • Too much data is generated, which require additional support to segment
To track campaign data and analyze user impressions based on their behaviour. Reports are generated to view conversion rate at every stage. Pain points can be identified to improve customer journey based on these reports
December 03, 2022

Heap Product analytics

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Heap to track and analyze user interactions on the product and determine adoption, usage and other funnel related statistics. There were many undefined events in the past for which we are now able to view the historical data easily, on the spot! It is also very helpful in building the entire funnel and journey of all the users and segment them into multiple buckets
  • Very easy to build quick dashboards for analysis- just a matter of minutes
  • Events can be tracked in near real-time ,without any latency
  • High support for self-serve with deep level of documentation
  • Intuitive platform with quick learning; no formal training needed for user adoption
  • Mobile version is suboptimal without flutter support
  • Graph analysis is very basic and sometimes calls for csv download for detailed analysis
  • Initial event and platform configurations are too detailed and clumsy
Heap is very well suited for analysing and tracking user behaviour across tech apps- more so mobile apps. It is extremely useful for deep diving into engagement metrics, user journeys, user funnels and segmentation and understanding A/B test metrics for your product apps. The service is real-time and responsive. However, it is not well suited for basic application who need just high level analysis and it can be daunting in the beginning to set up tracking on the platform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is assisting us in determining our next course of action. We have the ability to verify or disprove any default assumptions we may have. We are better equipped to determine when further in-app or other messages is useful or essential. Naturally, one of the fundamental components is the ability to locate friction points in a process that has been created for our clients.
  • Data flexibility
  • Understanding user interactions
  • Ease of A/B Testing
  • Requires additional segmentation
  • Difficult to learn
The data visualizations are excellent and can be easily tailored to your requirements. We are able to track the appropriate data for any project we launch since you have a variety of ways to capture data from a certain Segment event (funnels, journeys, etc.). Heap's commitment to product improvement means that some of my charts and reports require periodic adjustment in order to take use of new capabilities. Occasionally, minor functionality changes as well, necessitating a second look.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap to automatically collect data on our customer behaviour and try to understand the users and their journey. We try to intercept potential problems a user might stumble upon this way.
  • automatically gather data on behaviour of your users.
  • setup without needing people from engineering.
  • useful dashboards generation.
  • could be a little rough to get the hang of without some computer science background some times.
  • a lot of configuration is good, but also overwhelming, perhaps it can be put away in some advanced setting or so, just thinking out loud
Currently we are testing AB testing, Heap allows us to better understand what is happening here and to zoom in on how we can improve A or B to eventually implement one or the other. It is quite well done
December 03, 2022

Heap Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our company, we need to build customer's digital journey because we are not following well our customer nor understand them.
So we are using Heap for the digital insights that the software is giving us.
  • understand the digital journey of our customer
  • improve customer satisfaction
  • better follow customer conversion
  • simpler interface
We really wanted to see the issues on our website, and on specific webpages that were not working well. But we couldn't understand why. Thanks to the behavior analytics, we were able to really put ourself in our customers shoes and experience exactly what they are experiencing when they are connecting on our website. We could see which parts were not working well and why the customer was stopping at one particular step.
December 03, 2022

Good product

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We want to see what is happening in our products and assess the users experiences. We wanted to see what features they are using most and which features are used least.
  • Provide insights
  • Tracking
  • Segmentation
  • Hard to setup
  • Easier to see dashboards
We are able to gain insights from our users experiences with the features and also their segmentation. Based on the insights, we can fine tune our product and see improvement in the experience
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an implementation partner, I was tasked with product comparison and choose between various marketing analytics platform. We did a comparitive analysis between Heap and Google Analytics. The scope of my use case was

1. Reduce dependency on engineering team to generate perpetual dashboards.
2. Provide real time data insights for re-marketing and personalization.
3. Quick and continuous site(s) level implementation, based on data insights.
4. Side by side comparison of historical data
  • Realtime interactions which are captured automatically is a unique feature which no other product offers.
  • Low code implementation is a big plus for marketing teams, as there is less dependency on engineering
  • Detailed customer behaviours can be studied with captured replay sessions
  • Due to all the above points - it helped to improve customer experience
  • During our analysis, I could not find any such area of improvement as of now.
Heap is well suited for
1. Capture customer journey with session replay
2. Identify customer behaviour and improve overall customer experience
3. Frequent and quick implementations and modifications
4. Comparative analysis for historical marketing insights
Heap is not so well suited, if the aim is to capture only analytics data without any goals to improve upon customer experience / targeting appropriate users based on data tracking.



Fernando Roque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The best tool to research user behavior in a storefront sales website. It gives information about the user's path from the website's landing from marketing campaigns or search engines. With this tool, you can track the reasons for a customer to shop and pay and what happens when your storefront does not succeed in a sale. You can research if a logically broken path is affecting your online sales.
  • The path from website landing until the sale success.
  • Identify the possible broken logical path that is avoiding the sale success.
  • Machine Learning to identify the customer navigation trends in your website.
  • Measuring of website performance to see if the server is deliving content fast.
  • Machine learning time series of customer visits.
  • Grouping statistics to identify geographically the website sales.
The best scenario is to identify the website navigation path to get success in sales. The identification of logical and design loopholes could create confusion for the customer. Heap identifies the pages where the client left the website. Heap needs improvement in performance reports to measure if the website server is up and running 24/7 and keeping the same webpages delivery speed.
Sachidananda Choudhury | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In this modern world we always need to balance our organization objectives and the people's need which will eventually lead to successfully journey.

Heap does the exact same thing, it balances both using data analytics. using both predictive framework and adaptive framework it help to achieve the requirements.

In predictive framework it uses past data for analysis where as kn adaptive framework it uses data on fly to achieve the requirements.

Based on scenario we can use both the models.
  • This can be used to find is a Customer is about to leave a product or not
  • It can also help to know if any default might have based on customer's past performance
  • It can let us know what is the next best possible action that needs to be taken
  • Since Heap deals with lot of data, data base is a huge issue
  • Encryption and decryption algorithm has to be structured in a larger scale
  • Integration with other systems using heap is difficult, this has great scope for improvement
1. We were designing a banking framework for loan application, we needed to check the probability of a customer defaulting a loan, using Heap we were able to find the same as it depends on historical data. 2. We also check what is the next possible thing a customer can buy. We were using a AI model to test the same and the success rate is more than 90% for the same
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap has also allowed us to see user funnels and behavioral trends. Heap gives us the ability to distinguish different users based on the actions they conduct within our application. While utilizing the tool, from operations to product to business stakeholders, have a real-time pulse on how features are being used by end users, which helps them identify spots of friction and prioritize projects.
  • With the help of Heap, we are able able to monitor client and patient activity.
  • Heap can help you make better marketing decisions every day.
  • It assists marketers in developing their data literacy.
  • should provide data on the UI that is more in-depth.
  • Measurement can also be challenging because heaps are often prone to data loss.
Using this to capture the events within a particular time period is more beneficial.
December 02, 2022

Good tool for Analytics

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap analytics is a good platform for analytics and could be used for various use case to visualize data and learn more about it. It is very well priced for the features it has and could be used with so many integrations coming out of the box depending upon your use case.
  • Data Visualization
  • Identifying Blind Spots
  • Reports and Dahsboarding
  • Documentation
  • Community Support
  • Ease of use
Heap Analytics would be well suited when you want to analyze data which is live as in is being generated on the fly and you want to have a look at it real time, you can also use it when you have static data stored in a database or data store.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Heap to better understand user behavior and our applications' system behavior. This helps us troubleshoot customer pain points in our system, and formulate a comprehensive solution to rectify the problem. Insights from Heap are also helpful with helping us prioritize what is urgent/important to our users.
  • Flexible and customizable
  • Great data visualizations
  • Easy to learn
  • Fast
  • Constantly changing/improving, need to tweak to incorporate new features
  • No Flutter SDK/ lacking mobile support
  • Limitations to graph analysis (not in depth enough)
Heap is a great resource if you want a fast, customizable way of visualizing and analyzing data. You can push data and generate high level reporting easily, and use them to make informed business decisions/troubleshoot client issues.

However, Heap is not recommended for tasks that require very niche/specific analysis, or complex integrations with other software. Also, Heap is ever evolving, so as new features emerge, they may come with bugs/inaccuracies that takes time to resolve.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap to collect customer data from our website and application. We use this data to understand how our customers interact and engage with our product. Heap addresses our business problem of having to automatically collect digestible data about our customers so that we can make informed data-driven decisions.
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Customer segmentation
  • Dashboard reporting
  • Improvements in customer support
  • Better tutorials
  • Better integration features
Heap is great for product and marketing analytics. It offers good features if you want to do customer segmentation, customer journey mapping, and behavioral analysis. It allows your team to get a good picture of how the customers are interacting with your product and what steps you need to take in order to optimize your product. However, it may not be too suitable for teams that aren't experienced with using marketing analytics tools and have many 3rd party software you need to integrate.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is our core solution used across a large scope of business processes. Heap gives an understanding of customers’ digital journeys, so we can improve conversion, retention, and customer delight. For example, we can now discuss on client journeys in detail, and pinpoint where our pipeline is robust - and where improvements can be made. Heap has enabled us to leverage these insights and improve our ROI. <br>
  • Fast
  • Robust
  • Reliable
  • Depth
  • Scope
  • Support
Well suited to growing businesses within a certain niche - new markets being a good example. More established and/or mature business may struggle to obtain the same ROI. Often these type of businesses have established their user journeys already, so additional insights may be minimal. Heap is most suited to uncovering new insights which were previously undisclosed.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our scope we mostly use Heap for identifying and fixing issues. Heap allows us to have immediate insight in all our user behavior by analyzing each step they take on our web domain. If a specific step performs less well, Heap will show us exactly where the performance dropped and why.
  • Analyze funnel behavior.
  • Watch replays of user sessions.
  • Extract data sets on specific user actions.
  • More intuitive interface for session replay.
  • Make it easier to perform different time comparisons within funnels.
  • Offer a cheaper price plan.
When performance drops on your website and you're not sure what might have caused it, Heap is an excellent tool to help you find out where the drop is coming from. It would also help to find more user insights from your customers and help you gain more control of your own data.
James Chia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap to track and analyze user interactions on our web platform.
  • Plug and play interface.
  • Non-developers can use it easily.
  • For smaller objects within a larger, it may be difficult to use the Visualisation Tool to target that smaller object for analytics.
Heap is great for quick deployment and analysis of user actions and pathways. However, sometimes when a web object is contained within a larger web object, I find I may sometimes not be able to pick out the smaller object for analysis.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap to help make more data-driven product decisions. The event visualizer allows anyone in the product team, from product designers to product managers to easily create events without having to know how to code. This means that we no longer have to go through different bottlenecks to get the data we need to make decisions.
  • The event visualizer allows you to easily create events by browsing your website and clicking on elements.
  • [It's] very easy to onboard new users and to start getting value out of it.
  • [It] provides contextual tips [on] how to best look at your data to get the answer that you need.
  • Sometimes you can get confused about which filter you can and can't use depending on how you chose to look at your data.
Heap is great when you're trying to democratize data so that it's not almost impossible to be able to answer questions quickly and easily. With Heap, data becomes super accessible, and creating new events that you want to track can be done by anyone without any coding knowledge. I would say Heap is less appropriate for finding out more qualitative data such as how do customers interact with your website and looking at click heatmaps.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented Heap to be able to track behavior on our patients' and clients' sides. The benefits of the service are felt across the organization: from ops to product to business stakeholders, Heap users at Cerebral have a real-time pulse on how features are being used by end-clients and to understand points of friction and to prioritize projects.
  • Tracks provider behavior in the EMR
  • Tracks results of AB tests
  • User behavior in onboarding funnels
  • How to structure events in funnels - there should be an option to add an OR in the last part of the funnel - i.e. people who subscribed to PLAN X or PLAN Y
  • The customer support is okay - but had hiccups during setup
  • Comparison paths - if we want to have two funnels but follow people who clicked "Yes" to a chart vs those who clicked "No" (there is the compare users option) but we cannot have two separate funnels side by side which would be ideal
Auto-capture, snapshots, and funnels are the reasons Heap is extremely valuable to a product organization that prides itself on understanding and improving user experience.
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