Adobe Target vs. VWO Engage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Target
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Adobe 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
VWO Engage
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Wingify offers VWO Engage (formerly PushCrew), a web push notifications platform. With features like audience segmentation, smart triggered campaigns, multi-website support, custom images, cart abandonment, and more, VWO Engage aims to offer everything a business needs to re-engage with their customers in real-time. The vendor says that VWO Engage's push notification platform supports notifications for a variety of situations, such as a connected call-to-action (CTAs), timed…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
VWO Engage
-
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a/b experiment testing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Split URL testing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multivariate testing9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app testing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Test significance7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced code editor8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page surveys9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visitor recordings8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Preview mode9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Test duration calculator9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment scheduler9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Client-side tests9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Server-side tests8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.5
Ratings
0% below category average
VWO Engage
-
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Standard visitor segmentation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
VWO Engage
-
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Heatmap tool9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form fill analysis9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test reporting9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Results segmentation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
CSV export9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe TargetVWO Engage
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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7.8
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Likelihood to Renew
6.3
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Usability
8.5
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Availability
6.1
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Performance
8.0
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Support Rating
3.5
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7.1
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In-Person Training
8.1
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Online Training
6.1
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Implementation Rating
7.2
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Configurability
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6.8
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User Testimonials
Adobe TargetVWO Engage
Likelihood to Recommend
We recommend this application because it allows us to segment and track the traffic of our domain under an analysis of their behavior, ranging from counting the number of clicks they make on a single element to the most complete action within our page in real time.
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If you have a large or small blog following/audience, this is an excellent tool to help keep readers engaged and on top of your new content releases. You can also utilize this product for automated DRIP campaigns that will, following a schedule you create, notify users at preset intervals to help nurture your leads or existing customers as part of your sales funnel. Even new bloggers with smaller audiences can utilize a tool like this to help generate more consistent web traffic to your content. I am averaging a +16% clickthrough rate regularly on my RSS to push notifications after just a few months of use.
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Pros
  • Because the software is established there is lots of online help available and most of the bugs have been worked out
  • Adobe has a vast supply of resources if your pockets are deep enough.
  • The dashboard is easy to follow and is getting more user-friendly. You no longer have to be an HTML wizard to implement changes.
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  • Easy, guided setup.
  • Easy implementation.
  • User friendly.
  • You're able to make your changes very fast, apply them and you're ready!
  • The customer service is great, had a question after migrating to HTTPS, they provided fast and very accurate help, how to make it use on migrated site.
  • Supports mobile devices.
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Cons
  • There should be some more clarity around what makes a test significant. While this can be decided by the client themselves, some direction from the tool would be helpful.
  • Also, if there was an easier way to organize campaigns and search for them it would be helpful. Right now there is just a long list of campaigns and you have to rely on search to find a specific campaign. What if you don't know the name of the test?
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  • I can tell they are based somewhere on the other side of the world, so when it's middle of the day here in the USA, they aren't always very responsive.
  • There have been a couple hiccups with billing issues that mainly stemmed from them not having an internal billing system, but had it outsourced to another company.
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Likelihood to Renew
Once you get started with your testing program, you realize that it is necessary to continue. You must keep optimizing in order to remain a vital competitor in today's marketing world. Even if you're not using Test & Target or any other user experience testing software, you ought to be performing comparison tests on your own, simply by routing your audience to different experiences and quantifying the aggregate of the results.
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Usability
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
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
The bottleneck is never the software program
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Support Rating
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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I never accessed support, but I did use the help files to get the service implemented and they were helpful and informative enough that I did not need to use individual support for any purposes. My rating therefore is kind of in the "indifferent" scale only because I did not use it at all.
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In-Person Training
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
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
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
For us, the decision was very straightforward. We chose to invest in the Adobe stack and utilize tools that are developed to integrate together and complement each other. Ex: Adobe Target 'A4T' integration within Adobe Analytics. Optimizely appears to be a great tool, but for us aligning with the Adobe suite, ensuring that future product enhancements and tools would work well together was a very important key factor in our decision
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Return on Investment
  • This is something we've been working to improve on, as far as how we're calculating and tracking this, but Target has had a substantial ROI on our business.
  • I will say specific to our efforts, we could have probably done similar work if not the same work using a different testing tool (Optimizely for example), but Target has been good for us.
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  • We saw surprisingly high subscription rates when we launched push notifications on our site using PushCrew, and it's been consistently building since then.
  • Engagement is fairly high on push notifications we send out, ranging between 2-11%
  • Put in the mix with our other outreach mechanisms, push notifications has been a strong performer that requires very little effort on the part of our team
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