Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform vs. Salesforce Data Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Adobe's Real-Time Customer Data Platform allows marketers to collect, normalize, and unify known and pseudonymous consumer and professional data into real-time profiles. These person or account-based profiles then power B2B, B2C, and hybrid customer experiences at scale.N/A
Salesforce Data Cloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Data Cloud (formerly Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.
$108,000
per year per org
Pricing
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformSalesforce Data Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Data Cloud for Marketing
$108000
per year per org
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Real-Time CDPSalesforce Data Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAdobe offers three tiers of Real-Time CDP tailored for any type of business wanting to power their customer experience management strategy with unified customer data. The Business-to-Consumer Edition is for B2C brands wanting to personalize experiences for consumers. The Business-to-Business Edition is for B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for leads and accounts. The Business-to-Person Edition is for combined B2C and B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for the same person across all lines of business.
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Features
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Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
5.5
Ratings
42% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
6.0
Ratings
30% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data Cloud
6.5
Ratings
22% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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7.1
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Usability
-
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8.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform is well suited for organisations that have extensive PII data with attributes & consumer behaviors. Also, who wants to run omnichannel customer acquisition and focus on middle- or low-funch campaigns? Also, having multiple digital assets (i.e., website, mobile application, CRM, SMS campaign channels, etc).
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Being a mid sized organization, the costing is achievable, but can’t say for those of startups. So I believe not suitable for small scale organizations and very well suited for large data analytics companies to gain market. Also, the maintenance is slightly difficulty and support for the product is comparatively slower than other similar products.
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Pros
  • Real time segmentation and profiling on high volume of customer data
  • Integration of various customer data sources, ranging from CRM, Web Analytics, EDL and other custom sources
  • Data governance of customer data in the platform, down to attribute based access controls
  • Activation across paid media, marketing automation and experience optimization platforms
  • Easy to use interface for marketers
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  • Analysing customer trends
  • Detailing information to gain market
  • Reporting and analytics
  • Improved security
  • Providing data analytical tools and less scope of error
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Cons
  • Some features that are not yet released to all customers are necessary to manage cases like device sharing
  • The methodology of how data is stored and manage is relatively unique and requires some ramp-up to fully understand
  • There are some areas, like deduplication, where the platform doesn't provide the flexibility one would expect
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  • Very expensive
  • Does not integrate with HubSpot (another CRM). We have tried many times and it does not seem to connect
  • Sometimes the website will load very slow where other websites are much quicker
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform quickly becomes a must-have once you are through the "build it" phase. Direct integration with a wide variety of disparate systems makes it a difficult proposition to remove once users are trained in its various systems and fully bought into the strategy behind its use. Support for a wide range of teams is helpful in adoption and continued use of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform - everyone in data engineering, martech, frontend marketing can find a use case to pursue.
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Usability
Activation - great Segmentation - in UI, there should be the possibility of writing advanced code Tags. Both Mobile and Desktop Data Ingestion - might be pain in the ass. Changing one customer attribute is time-consuming. It should be some super admin or some feature. One user can change some customers' attributes easily. Data Transformation - Maybe there are some modules for that in AJO?
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it is easy to use after you get the hang of it. If you have an internal team of developers you will be able to maximise the usage a lot better. I would recommend it to people who need to organise data in a more unified way but I can’t speak to it from an infrastructure perspective as I’m not from the infrastructure team
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe CDP is a very capable product that offers all of the features that its competitors offer and more. The only differences can be noticed while connecting with other external tools. Adobe can help easily connect with tools within its ecosystem: Analytics/Marketo/Target, etc.
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I like Salesforce Data Cloud because like mentioned before, it is easy to use, easy to generate reports, create workflows, keep track of customer data, sales data, house data, etc. You can also import excel sheets with customer data as well and it will create the fields for you which is nice
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Return on Investment
  • it has allowed us to gain more insights into our profiles
  • we have been able to manage our schemas with ease
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  • Salesforce Data Cloud has a positive impact on me as a realtor because it is easy to generate reports on customer data and see what is needed to be bumped to the next level. We have to earn a certain commission by the end of the year and it makes it easy to see how close you are
  • It has a positive impact on keeping track of customers because it is nice to have it all in one place which is a nice time saver
  • I like that you can even see customer info from other agents making it nice to compare and try and pass others
  • Makes the customers journey smooth sailing because everything is in one place
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ScreenShots

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