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Optimizely Feature Experimentation

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What is Optimizely Feature Experimentation?

Optimizely Feature Experimentation combines experimentation, feature flagging and built for purpose collaboration features into one platform.

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Optimizely Review

7 out of 10
November 27, 2023
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We use Optimizely Feature Experimentation to test and optimize user experiences on our digital platforms. It addresses issues like user …
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Awesomeness

10 out of 10
October 12, 2023
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Create meaningful experiments and personalization that allow us to have an impact on the business and customers. We try to create …
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What is Optimizely Feature Experimentation?

Optimizely Feature Experimentation combines experimentation, feature flagging and built for purpose collaboration features into one platform.

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What is Optimizely Feature Experimentation?

Optimizely Feature Experimentation combines experimentation and feature flagging into one platform with the addition of integrated, built for purpose collaboration tools. It is used to optimize user experiences across digital channels and make every release high quality by quickly and safely validating code and features with real users through the entire software development cycle.

Optimizely Feature Experimentation Features

  • Supported: Testing & Experimentation
  • Supported: Feature Flags
  • Supported: Collaboration

Optimizely Feature Experimentation Screenshots

Screenshot of AI Variable suggestions: AI helps to develop higher quality experiments. Optimizely’s Opal suggests content variations in experiments, and helps to increase test velocity  and improve experiment qualityScreenshot of Integrations: display of the available integrations in-app.Screenshot of Reporting used to share insights, quantify experimentation program performance using KPIs like velocity and conclusive rate across experimentation projects, and to drill down into the charts and figures to see an aggregate list of experiments. Results can be exported into a CSV or Excel file, and KPIs can be segmented using project filters, experiment type filters, and date rangesScreenshot of Collaboration: Centralizes tracking tasks in the design, build, and launch of an experiment to ensure experiments are launched on time . Includes calendar, timeline, and board views in customizable views that can be saved to share with other stakeholdersScreenshot of Scheduling: Users can schedule a Flag or Rule to toggle on/off,  traffic allocation percentages, and achieve faster experimentation velocity and smoother progressive rolloutsScreenshot of Metrics filtering: Dynamic event properties to filter through events. Dynamic events provide better insights for experimenters who can explore metrics in depth for more impactful decisions

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Optimizely Feature Experimentation Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAll

Frequently Asked Questions

Optimizely Feature Experimentation combines experimentation, feature flagging and built for purpose collaboration features into one platform.

LaunchDarkly, AB Tasty, and VWO are common alternatives for Optimizely Feature Experimentation.

The most common users of Optimizely Feature Experimentation are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a SPA, so it is more effective to use Optimizely Feature Experimentation for Experimentation, especially for complex experiments. Our developers also prefer the control and flexibility they have with Optimizely Feature Experimentation, which allows other teams to make controlled changes to the website easily and rapidly.
  • Allowing non-technical teams to be able to make controlled and speedy changes on the site.
  • Makes developers feel comfortable about experimentation.
  • Onboarding takes time because there is a steep learning curve.
  • The shift from the legacy version to the latest version required some changes in mindset.
  • The layouts of Optimizely Web and Optimizely Feature Experimentation are quite different, so it takes time to transfer from one to the other.
Optimizely Feature Experimentation is good if you have a clear release process that incorporates It into your current product release cycle. However, It requires a lot of resources and time, especially at the start when teams are learning how to use and deploy it. Therefore, it may not be the best Experimentation to go for if you are starting in your Experimentation journey.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Feature Experimentation for managing our releases, A/B testing of new features, and measuring the impact of our releases. It's used by our entire product organization for feature flagging too.
  • Integrated roll-out and A/B testing ability
  • Ability to personalize roll-outs based on other user traits
  • Measure the impact of releases
  • Better integration with web experimentation product
  • Integrate with Segment and other data sources for easier feature release measurement
  • More granular audience building / available traits
Well suited to teams who are shipping fast but wish to control roll outs to certain audiences, or to test the impact of releases for safety.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Feature Experimentation for feature flagging services and ultimately to hide or show upcoming feature implementations based on the values these flags return. We also built out audiences and experiments to finely tune how we want to serve these features. We then look at the results and make business decisions on these.
  • Feature flagging
  • Segmenting
  • Quickly updating
  • Providing metrics
  • Initial setup
  • Onboarding
  • Experimentation
When delivering incremental features without slowing down the process, Optimizely Feature Experimentation can shine. However, for targeting more sensitive information, it might not be the best solution because all of the information is sent down to the client and evaluated there.
Ray Law | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a great tool to introduce new features and conduct experiments. We used it to try out new beta capabilities as experimentation. The scope includes all US and Canada users who make mobile orders.
  • A/B testing.
  • Percentage of traffic.
  • Target audience.
  • SDK of API calls.
  • Provide command line interface.
  • Simplify the user interface.
It's a great to test the customer behavior on new user interfaces and beta features. For example, before we invest a lot of money to develop a new capability or feature of the application, we want to create a quick proof-of-concept application. After the experiment, the business can a go or no-go decision.
November 27, 2023

Optimizely Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Feature Experimentation to test and optimize user experiences on our digital platforms. It addresses issues like user engagement and conversion rates. By A/B testing different features, we gain insights into user preferences, enabling us to make data-driven decisions to enhance our website's performance.
  • a/b testing
  • multivariate testing
  • Feature Flagging
  • Learning Curve
  • Limited Customization in Reporting
As a digital marketing manager, I've found Optimizely extremely effective for refining web interfaces, testing marketing messages, and optimizing user journeys on large e-commerce platforms. Its strengths shine in environments with high user traffic. However, for smaller websites or those with limited traffic, it's less appropriate, as substantial user data is essential to achieve statistically reliable results and insights. This tool is best leveraged in scenarios where user engagement can be measured at scale.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's easy to grant users access via the admin portal. We have it set up through Okta SSO which makes the Integration and setup/use that much more intuitive. Creating projects and flags is also easy and can be done by users without technical support. I appreciate using the tool and being an admin for it.
  • Account Provisioning
  • Project Creation
  • Inviting Users
  • Updating user access
  • Finding the admin portal
  • Educating users
Strictly speaking from an Admin side of things (all I can say since I don't use the product myself) granting users access to the tool is essential for their usage of Optimizely. All is done through signing into Okta our SSO and by simply clicking the tile they launch the web portal and can use the tool.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Feature Experimentation for its feature flag features, which lets my team and I develop features of our product privately behind a gate before rolling it out to steadily larger internal and then external audiences. We then use the feature to fully release to the full user base.
  • Fine grained controls of target audiences
  • Offers an API with support for multiple languages
  • Extremely confusing, complicated, and unintuitive webapp. It's hard to figure out if a feature flag is active and what it will evaluate to for a given user, organization, or audience. The app has many different toggles for enabling, disabling, and targeting a flag, and they don't follow a consistent design.
  • Slow and buggy login process
  • Difficult to use human-readable aliases for user IDs and organization IDs when defining audiences. We maintain spreadsheets to understand our Optimizely configurations
Optimizely Feature Experimentation has all the features required to create feature flags and use them to control the release of software and to run hold backs. It's technically a good fit for these development and rollout use cases and helps avoid complicated version control alternative solutions. However, Optimizely Feature Experimentation is not easy or intuitive to use in my opinion. This is annoying from a usability and learning curve perspective. Worse, the unintuitive webapp can introduce risk where users may think they've toggled a feature flag for a target audience but instead have applied a different configuration (or don't have the flag active at all).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're an online store dealing with a market that evolves quickly. Optimizely Feature Experimentation assists us in meeting the vital demand of refining our site to improve purchases. We apply it all over our internet site, assessing and perfecting new characteristics and experiences and examining various features, designs, and content from the start page to the payment page. It helps us solve important business issues, such as improving user experiences and increasing conversion rates.
  • Its ability to run A/B tests and multivariate experiments simultaneously allows us to identify the best-performing options quickly.
  • Optimizely blends into our analytics tools, giving us immediate feedback on how our experiments are performing. This tool helps us avoid interruptions. With this pairing, we can arrive at informed decisions quickly.
  • Additionally, feature toggles enable us to introduce new features or modifications to specific user groups, guaranteeing a smooth and controlled user experience. This tool helps us avoid interruptions.
  • Anyone new to A/B testing may struggle with the learning curve.
  • To give product teams more control over feature releases, we should improve how we target and segment audiences.
  • We've had some problems with the user interface, especially when setting up experiments.
Optimizely is a useful tool for businesses looking to improve specific aspects of their website, such as the checkout process, product page layout, or homepage design. Although it may not be practical for small websites or businesses with limited online operations, Optimizely's Feature Experimentation is crucial for smooth feature rollouts and successful A/B testing. It significantly improves the online customer experience and optimizes conversion funnels. However, companies that do not heavily rely on ongoing feature deployment may not require all of Optimizely's functions.
October 12, 2023

Feature experimentation.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely feature experimentation to AB test various web components on our website. Feature experimentation lets us compare conversion rates and generated revenue between different versions.
  • AB testing.
  • Revenue comparison.
  • Conversion rate comparison.
  • Bucketing mismatches.
Feature experimentation is best suited for AB testing different digital experiences and web components and determining their impact on conversion.
October 12, 2023

Awesomeness

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Create meaningful experiments and personalization that allow us to have an impact on the business and customers. We try to create different variations and test different metrologies that allow us to account for different goals and strategies. Meanwhile, we would like the feature experimentation tool to be more design/user-friendly we’re we can still visualize the flags and variations created optimally similar to the web.
  • Traffic allocation.
  • Distribution
  • Web editor.
  • Visualization of the flags.
  • Information about testing.
A really good tool for experimentation.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Optimizely Feature Experimentation to help us with A/B testing new changes. We have used it for layout tests to test if user conversion is increased by changes and we have also used it for new features to see if general user engagement with the website increases.
  • Testing new layouts for conversion
  • Testing new features for user interaction
  • Tracking user engagement
  • Better documentation. It's very fragmented and hard to navigate.
  • More opinionated API. Multiple ways to get the same functionality, but with various degrees of documentation. For example, do you activate an experiment or do you use the user decision?
  • More examples for common patterns would be nice. For example, generation and storage of a user ID in a cookie.
It is not needed when using a platform like Adobe Experience that already has things like A/B testing in addition to a comprehensive analytics data collecting.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While working at CreditSesame we usually want to test different versions or pages to see which one peforms the best, luckily Optimizely Feature Experimentation has made it very easy for us to do that. I am an Adnroid engineer, and once its set up, there is very little time spent creating variations and adding new variations. I haven't used any other A/B testing tool, so there might be a better one out there, but Optimizely Feature Experimentation definitiely is good enough for most cases.
  • A/B Testing of features
  • Easy to add and develop on an app or web
  • Friendly customer support
  • The "flags" new feature needs more explanation
  • Ability to add more than 10 whitelisted users, this was available before, now "flags" disabled it
  • More detailed documentation
It is suited when you need to need to use different variations of a feature in the same experienice, it also gives you useful data and stats to better detemrine wich variation is better for you
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In DocuSign, we use Optimizely in many projects. In our eSigning, eSending and InProduct Communication apps, I have used Optimizely for multiple purposes. For example, in the eSending app, we have integrated with Optimizely via its JavaScript SDK to manage our system level feature flags for certain environments. We use the Optimizely Features for that.<br>As for our eSigning app, we use the Optimizely Experiments to run several A/B testing campaigns. The integration was done with JavaScript SDK.<br>In InProduct Communication apps, we use Optimizely to run A/B testing campaigns. The integration was done via C# SDK<br>All in all, we are quite happy with what Optimizely offers and their support.
  • system flags
  • dynamic flags for each environment
  • dynamic flags for user
  • currently it doesn't seem to support any CRM or ERP system integration, it has a room for it
  • Optimizely has its own permission mechanism. If it supports our internal operation flow, it would be good
  • Our production environment has a number of domains such as EU, CA and USA. If Optimizely features support some domain logic for environment, it would be nice
Its UI is self-service, easy to manage. The documentation is good enough. I liked the Code mode for the Optimizely Feature Experimentation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we used it for AB testing and it worked pretty well. Later on, the marketing department started using it for page modifications. For example, if you need to compare what text will influence on a customer more, then Optimizely is the right tool. The same goes for colors, sizes, displaying elements, etc.
  • Redirection
  • Feature testing
  • Splitting traffic
  • performance
If you need a blazing fast speed page I’d not recommend Optimizely. A custom solution will work of course faster, but in most cases, Optimizely will be a good way to go. Pay attention that Optimizely is a client script that has to be downloaded before starting to be used.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently being used across the entire organization, and helps address the issue of testing and validating UX changes to our website.
  • Allow for website changes otherwise dependent on code
  • Analytics of those change
  • Customer support
  • Ease of use
  • Initially training of program
  • Ability to customize certain aspects of the website were limited
  • Expensive for smaller organizations
When testing if a different color button, or different size, leads to a higher conversion rate.

Improvement could be when trying to do a more complicated test as add a rotating carousel functionality, which I don’t believe is currently supported.
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