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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Journey Optimizer

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Journey Optimizer is a customer engagement solution, enabling brands to orchestrate and deliver personalized customer engagement across all channels — including email, web, app, mobile, and more — in the moments that matter to customers.N/A

    Braze

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies.N/A
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    Adobe Journey OptimizerBraze
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Adobe Journey OptimizerBraze
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Journey Optimizer
    Each of these products represents a legacy solution that has been replaced by AJO. AJO allows for all of these marketing functions to live within a single platfrom. While AJO has a learning curve that is steeper than working with individual vendors, it does allow for a …
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    Braze
    Chose Braze
    Easier than the big ones and more robust and than the small ones. Braze seems to be a great fit for teams that need to move fast, cannot spend a lot of time in certifications and training and are able to adapt to innovation. As for pricing, Braze has different pricing depending …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Small Businesses
    Simplify360
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Simplify360
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Braze
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Adobe Journey Optimizer
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Journey OptimizerBraze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (4 ratings)
    9.2
    (82 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    5.9
    (4 ratings)
    8.9
    (49 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Journey OptimizerBraze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    AJO is best suited for advanced Martech teams who are already bought into the Adobe ecosystem through the use of RTCDP, AA, AAM, etc. Organizations that are starting their Martech journey are good candidates, as well as those who are reevaluating all of their marketing channel vendors near the same time. Success in AJO is highly dependent on the number of marketing channels added. Close coordination with database teams is essential for success. Many of the offline data requirements benefit from modeling of the data. Having dedicated resources developing AJO (RTCDP)-specific views will reduce the amount of QA required to bring the solutions to market
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    Braze
    Braze is a fantastic tool if you're looking to build a large number of CRM journeys using complex canvas structures and maximising use of customer data to segment and personalise. There are numerous tools to ensure each channel is maximising impact and engagement. Braze offers great features for testing, managing message frequency and control groups and using dynamic attributes and liquid code. If you're looking to limit your use to single-send campaigns with no or few automations, I don't think this is the right tool. From my experience, many Braze users also use external tools for analytics rather than Braze's native analytics.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • pre built use case playbooks provide a basis for various trips
    • provides customized messaging
    • custom actions let different systems and databases be easily integrated
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    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • It doesn´t keep the last search you sis in the journeys and you have to enter the search parameter every time
    • there is a window of time during the day that the audiences give out errors and you can´t see the estimates
    • I should be able to select STO in campaigns, not only in journeys
    • I should be able to select the email parameters when using campaigns
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    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
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    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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    Usability
    Adobe
    At times, Adobe Journey Optimizer offers too many options, making things less user-friendly than I would personally prefer. As mentioned earlier, there is a tendency to encounter decision paralysis with the increase in available options. While having options is excellent, in typical Adobe fashion, too many can be overwhelming for users
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    Braze
    It is an easy-to-understand platform, thanks to its design and accessibility. You can, for example, easily find any users and their data, check exact volumes of segments, follow the history of messages sent, and create reports. We can connect Braze with other platforms for analysis or email design (Snowflake, Hightouch, Stripo...).
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    They both have their pros and cons, I feel it depends on the users that the products are targetting, SFMC is has more specialized customizations, Adobe does offer similar but require a higher technical knowledge which is not something that is provided bt the other product
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    Braze
    Braze is just the best one when it comes to aesthetics and usability, which matter when you're working every day, making complex or even simple changes to highly contextual campaigns for multiple stakeholders. Even without following tutorials, you just get it instantly and start crafting journeys very quickly. And they continue to keep adding new features at a rapid pace, so credit where it's due.
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Multichannel onboarding journey improving the engagement of freshmen in the business, resulting in a decrease in the dropout rate.
    • Separate business of anticipation of receivables from suppliers that used to be manual and now I have connected this entire operation via the S3 connector, less manual work and significant gains in conversions and payments
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    Braze
    • We are currently trying to reduce churn of our members, numbers are stable but not as good as they could be.
    • We have achieved well in the upselling of our products, and expect to see a good proportion of revenue from this at the end of the year.
    • Higher engagement in our app work, performing much better than email. Keeping things interactive really helps.
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