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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Audience Manager

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Audience Manager is a data management platform (DMP) that is integrated into the Adobe Marketing Cloud.N/A

    Adobe Target

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management products.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
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    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Target
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    82%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    44%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
    Data Collection
    Comparison of Data Collection features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    8.6
    16 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Adobe Target
    -
    Ratings
    Collection of first-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collection of third-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access to Third-party Data Providers9.616 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Classification
    Comparison of Data Classification features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    7.3
    16 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Adobe Target
    -
    Ratings
    Audience taxonomy7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management6.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Analysis Dashboard7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    8.9
    16 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Adobe Target
    -
    Ratings
    Data Transfer8.916 Ratings00 Ratings
    DSP integration8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
    DMP Analytics
    Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    6.8
    16 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Adobe Target
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign Analytics5.516 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Analytics8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Target
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    5% above category average
    a/b experiment testing00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Split URL testing00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Multivariate testing00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Mobile app testing00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Test significance00 Ratings7.49 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Advanced code editor00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Page surveys00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Visitor recordings00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Preview mode00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Test duration calculator00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Client-side tests00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Server-side tests00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests00 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Target
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Adobe Audience Manager and Adobe Target
    Feature
    Adobe Audience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Target
    9.0
    11 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Heatmap tool00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Form fill analysis00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings9.511 Ratings
    Results segmentation00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    CSV export00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
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    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
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    Google Optimize
    Score6.7 out of 10
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    Lotame
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (16 ratings)
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (10 ratings)
    3.5
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Target
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    If you are already using multiple other pieces of the Adobe Experience Cloud stack, adobe audience manager is an easy choice. It allows for quick and easy data activation for your first and potentially brokered 2nd party data. However this product will likely be absorbed into the adobe experience platform (AEP) soon. In the end I would wait to see where adobe is truly headed with this product before investing heavily without additional heavy adobe investments.
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    Adobe
    If you're using the Adobe stack and tools to power your website, Target is a great solution to implement. I've utilized Target within two organizations, one running on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and the other on Adobe Magento. I don't see how companies could harness the full capacity of Target without also having Adobe Analytics integrated. This is their 'secret sauce' and might not be a good solution for companies who are invested in Google Analytics 360. Integration was straightforward but did require support from the Adobe team to implement successfully. While Target is a great tool for digital teams to support, you'll need your tech team aligned and available to support implementation.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • We are able to generate reports that provide valuable insights into potential customer behavior, allowing us to better focus our marketing efforts.
    • By allowing us to understand who are key audiences are and how they overlap with other brands and products, AAM allows us to get a fuller picture of how we should target our audience.
    • Reporting in AAM is wonderful in that it is easy to understand and exportable. The use of graphics and updates make it easier to share insights with various team members--even those with minimum experience in marketing and analytics.
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    Adobe
    • This application gives us an incredible integration with Adobe Analytics that allows its operation to be the best and determine the performance of our website.
    • It offers us an analysis based on user behavior and a web page customization option to adapt and meet the needs of those users.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Biggest challenge we faced is teaching the use of it to our employees how to use it. The UI Should be easy and to understand for all fields.
    • The AdWords integration is not easy to do.
    • UI is sometimes slow and doesn't load Analyticals for more than 24 hours.
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    Adobe
    • This is something a lot of testing tools struggle with, but I think the WYSIWYG ("What you see is what you get") editor - or Visual Experience Composer (VEC) in Adobe terminology - could definitely use some work. It's a struggle to execute many tests beyond simple copy, color, placement changes, and even the features that do exist are often clunky if not altogether broken.
    • The interface itself can be a bit counterintuitive in certain parts. If you are familiar with other tools, it's likely middle of the road in this respect; think much easier to understand than Monetate for instance, but a far cry from the simplicity of an Optimizely.
    • It can be a bit buggy from time to time. The worst example is the frequency at which the tool will fail to save due to an error, but not inform you of this until you try to save, at which point your only option is to log out, log back in, and make all of your updates once again. It can become an extreme pain point at times, and I personally have just gotten into the habit of saving every couple of minutes to avoid a massive loss of productivity.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    We have a team of people trained on how to use the application and it integrates well with the other Adobe products we use. Our future roadmap of testing will require some complex scenarios which we hope Target will be able to accomplish
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Overall usability is great, as are most of Adobe's software. Maybe a UI refresh could make it a bit easier to do advanced functions or reporting but, overall, it works very well. This is something you take for granted with Adobe solutions because when you try another vendor you realize how bad it can be.
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    Adobe
    The recent UI update is a complete mess. It is difficult to navigate and find features that previously existed. The reactiveness of the page depending on window size is also ridiculous and it is absurd that depending on how large your window is, entire columns of functions will disappear with no indication that they are missing. The usability of the tool has fallen off a cliff.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    i don't think we use the full functionalities of the tool, but to use the full functions, it's almost impossible (Too hard)
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    Performance
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    The bottleneck is never the software program
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    AAM has good support, but the support is not as available, due to waiting time and queue. The instructions presented are available, but it navigation is not easy between pages. However, instructions are usually direct and straightforward, but any underlying thoughts or questions won’t be easily answered without support from their service.
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    Adobe
    On several occasions, we have had the need to ask for help from the Adobe Target support team, and I must say that they have provided us with an excellent experience, as they take care of solving the problems quickly and with high precision
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    The instructor that came to train us was awesome and this training was very useful. I would recommend it for anyone who is going to be using this software. I only mark it lower because it is an added expense to an already expensive product, and a lot of the training covered the "Target" portion of the software (which again, we didn't use)
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    The training was very easy to understand, however it would have been more useful to my development team than me. It was also primarily over-the-phone, which is never as easy to follow as in-person. We ended up scheduling and paying for an in-person training session to supplement the online/phone training because it wasn't helpful enough.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    Implement using a global mBox on the page so you can change any and everything over the traditional method. Traditional method is good if you do not have technical web dev resources, do not know Javascript/jQuery, or you have money to blow on mBox calls. Global deployment reduces mBox calls and allows you to touch many parts of the page easily. A lot more customizable
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    I personally like the Adobe Audience Manager interface and it's easier to use for beginners. It also has some features that Google does not, nor do its other competitors. It is worth the money and time spent, overall. I feel like it gives a bigger and more in-depth picture to our company's audience than other programs.
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    Adobe
    We seriously considered another software but because we use so many other Adobe products this made the most sense for us. If you are not dependent on other Adobe software and are a smaller company, in my opinion, Target may not be the best fit.
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Overall a Positive Return for Business who go All in on the Adobe Stack
    • Solid work for brokering and anonymously sharing data between first and second parties
    • The death of TRUE 3rd party data has lessened the effectiveness of all DMPs
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    Adobe
    • We have been able to run specific A/B tests that have shown an increase in conversion, which in turn has led to very large banked sales numbers for the year.
    • We have been able to prove that using and automated Merchandising process did not decrease conversion. This allowed us to greatly increase efficiency by opening up resource time.
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