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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    CleverTap

    Score7.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    CleverTap is a mobile marketing solution that helps marketers create differentiated customer engagement strategies that are designed to drive growth. The vendor’s value proposition is that thousands of brands continue to build valuable relationships with their customers using CleverTap’s Intelligent Mobile Marketing Platform, which provides actionable, real-time insights for building amazing customer experiences. According to the vendor, key features and…N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    In CleverTap we can make journeys, wherein Marketo we can make different types of programs and create landing pages different types of emails. we can perform lead nurturing, account-based marketing, Email marketing, and so on. With the help of Marketo, we can design different …
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    CleverTap
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
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    67%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    237 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    137 Answers
    40%
    Implementation went as expected
    2 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and CleverTap
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    993 Ratings
    3% above category average
    CleverTap
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    WYSIWYG email editor8.2902 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.9878 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.8857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages7.8920 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing8.3905 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.9877 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting6.3961 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.8958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.2868 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and CleverTap
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    961 Ratings
    0% below category average
    CleverTap
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    Lead nurturing automation8.4936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.7911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management6.6909 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.4863 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and CleverTap
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    889 Ratings
    5% above category average
    CleverTap
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    Calendaring7.1719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing8.4850 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and CleverTap
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.5
    556 Ratings
    0% below category average
    CleverTap
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    Social sharing and campaigns7.8547 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and CleverTap
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.0
    962 Ratings
    9% above category average
    CleverTap
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    Dashboards8.3904 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.9942 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.8897 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and CleverTap
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.9
    953 Ratings
    6% above category average
    CleverTap
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    API8.0821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.8698 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.9844 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com9.3822 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.3283 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.2185 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    SimpleTexting
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Score8.3 out of 10
    EZ Texting
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Airship
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (1145 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (98 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Marketo EngageCleverTap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    CleverTap
    It is quite suited for all the SMS, emails, and other in-game campaigns, but wherein the delivery rate I personally feel it is less, and it has [a] limitation on 5 pins for the day for 1 user, it should be unlimited.
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    Pros
    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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    CleverTap
    • User communication: it provides a single dashboard to help us reach out to our users via email, push, web push, SMS, in-app and now even WhatsApp. Not just that, we can set up various types of targeting, such as one-time, recurring, date/time based, etc.
    • Analytics: it offers various views and cuts to analyze the user data, be it in the form of trends, funnels, recency-frequency, user cohorts and segments, etc.
    • Tracking: it helps us track the impact of various paid and organic marketing channels, through which we can adjust spends and focus on the channels that make an impact.
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    Cons
    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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    CleverTap
    • Customer service isn't that great [from my experience], most of the time the team is puzzled or will leave the client puzzled.
    • Price is very high with respect to the features available. MAU based pricing with a flawed sense of MAU calculation.
    • The way they calculate MAU is morally wrong. If a customer opens my email that I am sending via AWS, and they don't even come on my app, how can you consider them as active user?
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    CleverTap
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    Usability
    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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    CleverTap
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    CleverTap
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    Performance
    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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    CleverTap
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    Support Rating
    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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    CleverTap
    For their expertise and timely resolution to our issues.
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    In-Person Training
    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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    CleverTap
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    Online Training
    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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    CleverTap
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    CleverTap
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    CleverTap
    Edit: Clevertap added attribution tools to its features, making it possible to track your user acquisition sources. CleverTap is as complete as Localytics. It provides us good segmentation, analysis and engagement tools for a good competitive price. T̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶C̶l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶t̶a̶p̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶r̶i̶b̶u̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶L̶o̶c̶a̶l̶y̶t̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶. One other major advantage of Clevertap is its customer service. They are always standing by to promptly respond to any question you might have regarding its usability or its development. This kind of careful attention is really appreciated.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
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    CleverTap
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    Scalability
    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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    CleverTap
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    Return on Investment
    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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    CleverTap
    • Our additional revenues from additional in-site promotions during a festive sales jumped 40% after using Clevertap pop-ups that targeted people at the product & category level.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

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    CleverTap Screenshots

    Screenshot of CleverTap Mobile App DashboardScreenshot of CleverTap HomepageScreenshot of CleverTap Cohort AnalysisScreenshot of CleverTap Create New Push NotificationsScreenshot of CleverTap Create SegmentsScreenshot of CleverTap Segmentation Reports