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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ActionIQ

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe ActionIQ Customer Data Platform, from ActionIQ in New York, aims to enable users to align people, technology, and processes to deliver customer experiences across every touchpoint, and it is designed to enable large organizations to solve chronic customer data fragmentation and gain the customer intelligence needed to orchestrate experiences across all their brand touchpoints.N/A

    Google Analytics

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition seems likely to close the gap.

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    ActionIQGoogle Analytics
    Editions & Modules
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    Google Analytics 360
    150,000
    per year
    Google Analytics
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ActionIQGoogle Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ActionIQGoogle Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    ActionIQ
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    100 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    99 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    86 Answers
    Features
    ActionIQGoogle Analytics
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of ActionIQ and Google Analytics
    Feature
    ActionIQ
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Tag library10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page load times10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of ActionIQ and Google Analytics
    Feature
    ActionIQ
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of ActionIQ and Google Analytics
    Feature
    ActionIQ
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Account Scoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Connectors9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enhancement10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Storage9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Visibility10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Data9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identity Resolution9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of ActionIQ and Google Analytics
    Feature
    ActionIQ
    -
    Ratings
    Google Analytics
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ActionIQGoogle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (185 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (51 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (42 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ActionIQGoogle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ActionIQ
    ActionIQ is ideal for a medium and large-sized organization that already has a lot of data stored across existing data warehouses and data lake solutions and is looking for a CDP with refined data models that can extract the key insights, analyse them and create detailed customer profiles for real-time targeting.
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    Google
    Google Analytics is particularly well suited for tracking and analyzing customer behavior on a grocery e-commerce platform. It provides a wealth of information about customer behavior, including what products are most popular, what pages are visited the most, and where customers are coming from. This information can help the platform optimize its website for better customer engagement and conversion rates. However, Google Analytics may not be the best tool for more advanced, granular analysis of customer behavior, such as tracking individual customer journeys or understanding customer motivations. In these cases, it may be more appropriate to use additional tools or solutions that provide deeper insights into customer behavior.
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    Pros
    ActionIQ
    • Data ingestion, cleansing and unification
    • Data activation for paid media campaigns
    • Data extraction from data warehouses and data lakes
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    Google
    • Multiple reports to see website use and behavior
    • Allows you to customize reports with days, weeks, months, and years
    • You can build out a dashboard to easily view stats from multiple websites in one place
    • You can share analytics reports via the dashboard, automatically emailed PDFs or in other formats
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    ActionIQ
    • Campaign delivery features especially multichannel orchestration
    • More hosting options including offsite
    • Better user access and identity management controls
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    Google
    • Data sampling is somewhat inaccurate on the free tier - this is addressed in premium but is expensive.
    • Some of the UI is very similar in naming when presenting different data, some in-situ information might be useful.
    • Gotchas around filtering and data validation.
    • Implementation can be tricky, it can take a lot of time and expertise to get a full, accurate picture of your metrics.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We will continue to use Google Analytics for several reasons. It is free, which is a huge selling point. It houses all of our ecommerce stores' data, and though it can't account for refunds or fraud orders, gives us and our clients directional, real time information on individual and group store performance.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Google Analytics provides a wealth of data, down to minute levels. That is it's greatest detriment: find the right information when you need it can be a cumbersome task. You are able to create shortcuts, however, so it can mitigate some of this problem. Google is continually refining Analytics, so I do not doubt there will be improvements
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    Reliability and Availability
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We all know Google is at top when it comes to availability. We have never faced any such instances where I can suggest otherwise. All you need is a Google account, a device and internet connection to use this super powerful tool for reporting and visualising your site data, traffic, events, etc. that too in real time.
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    Performance
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    This has been a catalyst for improving our site's traffic handling capabilities. We were able to identify exit% from our sites through it and we used recommendations to handle and implement the same in our sites. We have been increasing the usage of Google Analytics in our sites and never had any performance related issues if we used Analytics
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    Support Rating
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    The Google reps respond very quickly. However, sometimes they can overly call you to set up an apportionment. I'm very proficient and sometimes when I talk to reps, they give beginner tutorials and insights that are a waste of time. I wish Google would understand my level of expertise and assign me to a rep (long-term) that doesn't have to walk me through the basics.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    love the product and training they provide for businesses of all sizes. The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics.
    1. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners.
    2. A beginner’s guide to Google Analytics – A free eBook walking you through Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented.
    3. Getting to Know Your Google Analytics Dashboard – The title says it all! This is a brief post with one goal: to introduce you to the Google Analytics dashboard.
    4. Google Analytics for Beginners: How to Make the Most of Your Traffic Reports– This guide doesn’t cover setup, but it does a great job of helping you to better understand the data being presented.
    5. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 1: Setup – A video presentation that walks you through Google Analytics setup.
    6. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 2: Essential Stats – A video presentation that introduces you to some of the most important data being presented in Google Analytics.
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    Implementation Rating
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I think my biggest take away from the Google Analytics implementation was that there needs to be a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it before you start. Originally the analytics were added to track visitors, but as we became more savvy with the product, we began adding more and more functionality, and defining guidelines as we went along. While not detrimental to our success, this lack of an overarching goal resulted in some minor setbacks in implementation and the collection of some messy data that is unusable.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ActionIQ
    In my opinion, Tealium is a better product for sure, has a much more refined analytics engine but the reason we went for ActionIQ is the better integrations it offers in the ad tech space with the various SSPs and DSPs. We integrate it with LiveRamp and Goofle ads exchange and it works flawlessly. It is also significantly cheaper than Tealium.
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    Google
    I have not used Adobe Analytics as much, but I know they offer something called customer journey analytics, which we are evaluating now. I have used Semrush, and I find them much better than Google Analytics. I feel a fairly nontechnical person could learn Semrush in about a month. They also offer features like competitive analysis (on content, keywords, traffic, etc.), which is very useful. If you have to choose one among Semrush and Google Analytics, I would say go for Semrush.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    ActionIQ
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Google Analytics is currently handling the reporting and tracking of near about 80 sites in our project. And I am not talking about the sites from different projects. They may have way more accounts than that. Never ever felt a performance issue from Google's end while generating or customising reports or tracking custom events or creating custom dimensions
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    Return on Investment
    ActionIQ
    • Improved our digital media targeting capabilities
    • Increased the RoI of our data warehousing solutions
    • Increased the efficiency of our marketing campaigns team
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    Google
    • It has helped us gain understanding of what is going on on our website.
    • It has helped us determine areas that need fixing (i.e. pages with extremely high bounce rates may need to be redone).
    • It has helped us understand our biggest avenues for bringing traffic to the website and business in general.
    • It has helped guide our website redesign.
    Incentivized
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