Powerful, but clunky and hasn't innovated fast enough
March 05, 2019
Powerful, but clunky and hasn't innovated fast enough
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Watson Campaign Automation
IBM Watson Campaign Automation was being used by two clients in two different ways. For one-off campaigns, simple email blasts, and more sophisticated cross-channel campaigns. And, to support the 'buyer journey' taking leads and engaging them to learn more about who they are and what they want, to be able to personalize communications and offers. Using data, both clients were able to offer a better brand experience as well as put the right products in front of their prospects.
Pros
- Flexibility in using to data: databases (including relational databases), segmentation and powerful querying.
- Personalization and conditional content for email as well as landing pages.
- PURLs to extend personalization in direct mail.
Cons
- The interface is clunky and heavy, resulting in a slow UX. This is particularly true with the email builder.
- Processing of data (eg. returning a list of contacts for a query) is handled via 'Jobs', which means that it's not a dynamic process. Jobs need to start, crunch and end before you get a result.
- Reporting
- ROI very much depends on the strategy driving a data-driven marketing project, and not so much the platform itself.
- IBM Watson Campaign Automation is more expensive than other platforms to use, day in day out, because of its clunky interface.
- It's a flexible product and can achieve more than most.
IBM Watson Campaign Automation is more of an enterprise product for large organizations where you're plugging into all kinds of systems and workflows tend to be slower.
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