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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe's Customer Journey Analytics is a service built on Adobe Experience Platform that lets the user join all data from every channel into a single interface for real-time, omnichannel analysis and visualization, allowing users to make better decisions with a holistic view of the business and the context behind every customer action.N/A

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Select
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Prime
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Ultimate
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Adobe
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    232 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    191 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    237 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    150 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    76%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    137 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    993 Ratings
    3% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.2902 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings6.9878 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.8857 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings7.8920 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings8.3905 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.9877 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings6.3961 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.8958 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.2868 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    961 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.4936 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.7911 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings6.6909 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.4863 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    889 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings7.1719 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings8.4850 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.5
    556 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.8547 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings7.2375 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.0
    962 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.3904 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.9942 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.8897 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Marketo Engage
    Feature
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.9
    953 Ratings
    6% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.0821 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.8698 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.9844 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.3822 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.3283 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings7.2185 Ratings
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    6.9
    (1145 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Marketo Engage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics is great at combining offline (e.g call center data) and online (web data) as long as you have IDs that can be stitched together. If you have data that does not collect an ID, you can't combine that data. Account level data combined with person level data is very difficult to analyze in Adobe Customer Journey Analytics. They are coming out with a Adobe Customer Journey Analytics B2B edition but now its another thing to pay for/manage instead of updating the current Adobe Customer Journey Analytics edition to be more robust.
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    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is an excellent tool for hosting registration forms and sending out tokenized emails based on a particular person's information within your database. For example, if someone attends an event or webinar and indicates that they'd like to learn more about your product, then Adobe Marketo Engage can easily trigger a specific email template to that person that will be personalized with tokens about them. The pixel tracking that can be applied to any web page is also very helpful. If you want to focus on a more 1:1 type of follow up with a Lead, then the automated emails are not going to be as useful.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Customer journey analytics can be used to analyse data from a range of data sources and the data can be visualised, filtered etc. by users.
    • It also allows users to handle custom data to handle their specific needs and the data can be catered as per users need its like your own customised platform.
    • The best part is the integration users can connect this to various other platforms with one ID. This helps the user with easier usage and less hassle as everything is kind off a click away.
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    Adobe
    • It keeps all of our very important lead data in one place. It's very flexible, allows us to do a lot of different things around list building and segmentation. It deploys our email campaigns for us and it's also where our landing pages are built. So it does a lot of the things that we need to do from a data and deployment perspective.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Journey Canvas UI, when using a mouse with scroll wheel, it defaults to zooming in or out of the map, and not up and down if the map is very extensive.
    • When trying to break down a dimension by a second dimension and third dimension. If you are replacing the 2nd dimension breakdown, it would be beneficial to keep the 3rd breakdown instead of wiping it out.
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    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage crashes a lot or freezes. We don't have many users and less than 300k contacts so there's no reason it should ever crash.
    • It's really expensive! It would be nice to pick which features we want a la cart versus being stuck paying more for a feature and not using the others in the package.
    • Because of our integration with Dynamics, we had to use a 3rd party tool called Scribe for field matching. No one at Adobe will help us now that we have a 3rd party tool
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    It's the most customizable and flexible analytics tool I've used. While the tool can be slow and clunky at times, the value it provides far outweighs those issues. Being able to bring offline data and merge with web data to combine in one place is where clients need to be get the most success out of their data
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    Adobe
    We're likely to renew for several reasons:
    • Now that it's been implemented, I can't imagine not having marketing automation and the easy interface that Marketo provides to run our campaigns
    • Marketo's community and customer service is fantastic; I know that when I need help, I'll get it
    • Marketo continues to improve the product, so I know that I can expect it to be even more useful in the future
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Users of Adobe Analytics will be pleased to note Adobe Customer Journey Analytics's ability to perform non-destructive changes to data variables (so long, processing rules). Users familiar with Adobe Analytics will immediate adopt Adobe Customer Journey Analytics without a large amount of onboarding or training. That said, users without prior exposure to Adobe products will face a steep learning curve if they are migrating from another BI tool.
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    Adobe
    In some aspects, the tool can feel quite clunky in parts. But with the rich feature set it has, it's understandable. There is a lot of room for improvement for the user interface. The system itself doesn't have a slick or modern feel, so the usability could feel nicer to use with these areas considered.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    For the most part, CJA is available. There are instances where the product is experiencing an outage but I haven't found this to be super frequent to the point where it really impedes my work
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    Adobe
    Marketo provides different way and abilities to connect. If you are having product support or unexplained errors you can get someone on Marketo support 24 hours a day. One of Marketo's greatest assets in my opinion however would be the community. Often times our company is just looking for case success stories from someone else. In the community you can search for problems you are currently facing and see others having the same issue and solutions for those issues. If not, you can pose a question to the whole community and champions of the product and others can chime in to provide suggestions to fix your needs. The community is truly a 24/7 place to get your answers quickly.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    You can integrate online and offline data into one platform. help to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies while the customizable dashboards and reports make it easy to interpret complex datasets it’s possible to merge data from various customer touchpoints (i.e. web interactions, mobile app usage, and in-store visits) into one cohesive platform
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    Adobe
    There are times when it is slightly slow for us, where we sit on a screen waiting for it to load. This could be our internet since we have had the same issue occasionally with other systems, but it is enough to make you crazy.
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Good enough tools and offline support. We had a model of "hypercare" that was mostly good, sometimes not good. But that was more personality/people based, rather than established processes. Overall the support was timely and effective
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    Adobe
    On multiple occasions we've had Marketo support (technical and license based) issues. Technical issues were minor and resolved within a day. License based issues (even things encouraged by Marketo for partners, like provisioning another license) took WEEKS. They actually took so long to respond that the client we were working with withdrew from the contract because they were no longer convinced Marketo was capable of supporting their business. As an agency trying to sell the software, you can only explain away so much before they just made us look silly.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    Should be staged differently. It should be Do online stuff, get basic skills/qual. Then do "homework" type tasking, then come to class with an instructor. We got the traditional "start from 0, then step 1, then step 2..." training. This usually saps energy/focus. All training should be like a lab/practice session. If someone needs information or basic knowledge ... put it in a elearning, FAQ, job aid, or resource page.
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    Adobe
    Our account rep stopped out in Lincoln, NE to ensure we were properly set up and running. This was very much appreciated. I was very, very new at this point, so I can't comment very much on the extent of what was taught because I was still brand new to the company and the system
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    Should have more of this for the 101-level stuff. No one needs a Zoom class covering the basics. I need a "guide on the side" when I'm learning new stuff. I want support while I practice.
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    Adobe
    I had never used Marketo prior to taking this job so online training was my starting point. I was able to follow along, it was interesting and quickly and efficiently taught me what I needed to know without a lot of fluff. It was far from boring and really helped me get my hands dirty with Marketo.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Get trained up early, get your people in it and using/testing it.
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    Adobe
    1. Have a content marketing plan to run in parallel with the marketing automation installation--you'll need a lot of content to make full use of Marketo's capabilities. 2. Work with sales (and ISRs) to define and document a workflow--build your Marketo installation around how you do business--not figure out how to apply your business to the tools 3. Spend time of data cleaning--both an initial project as well as a strategy for ongoing data management. We found some change manaement issues (no more appending ZZZ to the first name to identify contacts who have left the company, for example, or prohibiting the entry of "info@company.com" email addresses). 4. Find some champions in the sales and ISR teams. You'll have both fans and detractors--work with the fans to build some success stories
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    So far, it is hard to see the advantage of CJA over GA4. However I have not had enough experience and training yet to be sure. Also, we have not taken full advantage of CJA yet. Another tool we use is Microsoft Clarity, which (for a free service) is quite powerful.
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    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is one of the best email sending platforms I have worked with, because there is so much you can do on a lead scoring area and also then connect this to other platforms such as Salesforce. It allows for seamless reporting and working alongside sales colleagues. We chose Adobe Marketo Engage because it allows for more sophisticated audience segmentation and management of ongoing large scale nurture flows across a number of complex criteria.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    You have the ability to create 'user groups' with different levels of access in CJA. We helped set this up for a large organiztion where they had marketers, executives, devs and analysts all having different levels of access to use CJA but with the appropriate guardrails in place for each user group. It worked out really well for their organization.
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    Adobe
    We look at scaleability in a few different ways. First, the speed while using Marketo has remained relatively the same as our database has grown. Though I would say Marketo is slow at times, it has not gotten slower over the last few years. If anything, it has improved, and they are working to improve it. Second, the amount of programs we have developed in Marketo has exponentially grown as well. Marketo has allowed us to drastically increase our output without having to drastically increase our headcount.
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    Professional Services
    Adobe
    Good offline/non-human resources (guides, FAQs, vids) Great support from people
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Currently, the ROI is a bit extended as our use cases are a bit more complex than the average use case (but we are in active discussions with Adobe Product to improve)
    • The Adobe Customer Journey Analytics implementation has directly contributed to our company's ability to speak to enterprise orientation, we have seen customer omni-channel presence go up 5% in just one year
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    Adobe
    • Generated a 35% higher return on investment (ROI) in demand generation in the company.
    • The focus on the accounts that presented a greater sales potential, allowed us to prioritize and reduce costs by 20 Million USD.
    • Being personal and optimized. reduced efforts towards a more personalized customer experience, in working hours by almost 100 h.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Customer Journey Analytics Screenshots

    Screenshot of Graph-Based Stitching in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Derived Fields in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Data Views in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Data Governance in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of AI Assistant in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Attribution Models in Adobe Customer Journey Analytics

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Contact Timeline in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Audience Feature in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Progressive Profiling in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Insights Dashboard in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Sources in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Metrics in Adobe Marketo Engage