A functional and useful app for businesses that would like to deep dive into customer data
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What is Twilio Segment?
Segment is a customer data platform that helps engineering teams at companies like Tradesy, TIME, Inc., Gap, Lending Tree, PayPal, and Fender, etc., achieve time and cost savings on their data infrastructure, which was acquired by Twilio November 2020. The…
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Free
$0.00
Cloud
Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
Team
$120.00
Cloud
Includes 10,000 visitors/mo
Business
Contact Sales
Cloud
Custom Volume
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- No setup fee
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Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $120 per month
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What is Twilio Segment?
Segment is a customer data platform that helps engineering teams at companies like Tradesy, TIME, Inc., Gap, Lending Tree, PayPal, and Fender, etc., achieve time and cost savings on their data infrastructure, which was acquired by Twilio November 2020. The vendor says they also enable Product, BI, and Marketing teams to access 200+ tools (Mixpanel, Salesforce, Marketo, Redshift, etc.) to better understand and optimize customer preferences for growth— all integrations are pre-built and accessible through a central dashboard.
Twilio Segment Features
- Supported: ​​Data Capture & Delivery — Collect data from every customer touchpoint and send your data to hundreds of tools and data warehouses
- Supported: ​​Personas — Unify user history across devices and channels into a comprehensive profile, synthesize raw data into traits, audiences, and predictions for each customer, and share those profiles with all of your marketing tools
- Supported: ​​Data Filtering & Schema Locking — Set defaults and event requirements to control your data cleanliness and block rogue events from hitting your integrations and warehouses
- Supported: ​​Historical Data Replay — Load all of your historical customer data tracked with Segment into new tools or warehouses
- Supported: ​​Historical Data Replay — Load all of your historical customer data tracked with Segment into new tools or warehouses
- Supported: Enterprise Security — Configure Single Sign-On and restrict account access to certain team members
- Supported: ​​Notifications & Alerts — Get proactive alerts when account changes are made or there are updates to your warehouse
- Supported: Cross-Domain Analytics — Unify your customer data and performance metrics across domains, content properties, or marketing sites
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Twilio Segment Integrations
- Zendesk Suite
- Stripe Payments
- Google Analytics
- Amazon Redshift
- Optimizely Web Experimentation
- AppsFlyer
- Braze
- Salesforce
- Amplitude
- Big Query
- Adobe
- + 200 other technologies
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Twilio Segment Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia |
| Supported Languages | English |
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Twilio Segment starts at $120.
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The most common users of Twilio Segment are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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August 14, 2018
The best option for event tracking out there
I was working as the head of analytics at a startup incubator, so I evaluated many different data and marketing automation tools. After trying most of them, I settled on Segment as the best for a few different reasons. The main reason is the ease in basic event and page tracking. After that, it was all the different sources and integrations.
- Ease of event tracking. Just like Google Analytics, except you can warehouse your own data for a reasonable price. Warehousing your own event data is critical for companies that want to leverage data science at some point in their existence (which should be all companies these days).
- Price. Startups can get by with the free version of Segment for a long time.
- Integrations and sources. Segment makes it easy to warehouse other types of data such as Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, etc. It also allows you to send event data to 3rd party services like Google Analytics.
- More and richer sources. For example, MailChimp is a source but the data you get from MailChimp is quite limited. I ended up writing my own scripts to take better advantage of MailChimp's API because Segment's integration was lacking.
- Better examples on how to set up event tracking. Pageview tracking is easy enough, but it would be nice if they had a sample app and corresponding code for it and showed you, via Git commits, how to add various kinds of events.
- Event tracking lets you take ownership of your own data, which in part makes it easy to craft metrics and do deep dives to see how your product is working. This has a huge ROI, because without metrics you're basically flying blind.
- You can also use Segment's event tracking to fuel your experimentation and AB testing strategies. AB testing is the best way to ship features in a tech product with confidence that you're making a positive impact.
The competitors above either charge a lot if you want to warehouse your data, don't allow data warehousing, or make it very difficult to warehouse your data (requiring you to write custom scripts and run them on schedulers). Segment makes it easy to warehouse your application's event data. Not only that, it allows you to warehouse 3rd party data sources. None of the competitors do that.
March 16, 2018
Segment for SaaS Companies from a Marketers POV
- We setup segment on our marketing website, support website and application (SaaS)
- We installed segment to be able to track user data across a variety of platforms without having to install different tracking data for each platform
- Very easy to install tracking code across all websites and applications
- Very easy to turn on integrations to test a variety of marketing, sales and customer success platforms once tracking code is setup
- Saved a ton of time for our development team (saved me having to ask them every time I wanted to test a new marketing tool)
- Would be good to see their integration library grow with smaller solutions that are not as popular yet
- I found myself wanting integrations for a few marketing tools that were not yet in the application library
- The new integration management area is confusing, I liked the old version better
- Saved a ton of time for setting up user tracking
- Provided user data and tracking visibility to the entire team by turning on the Mixpanel integration - this only took a week or so
- It does get hard to manage all of your events in a clean spreadsheet - you must have 1 person who leads this initiative so that you keep track of events
There were no other solutions like Segment that I evaluated. I've never even heard of a comparable solution.