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    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

    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is an integrated marketing management solution for marketing operation, planning, execution, and analytics across all channels—digital, social, and traditional. Capabilities include marketing resource management, multichannel campaign management, lead management, sales collaboration, social marketing, and marketing analytics. Microsoft acquired MarketingPilot, an SMB-focused marketing automation product, in 2012. MarketingPilot IMM (integrated marketing…

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    BrazeMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
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    BrazeMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
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    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    BrazeMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
    Considered Both Products
    Braze
    Chose Braze
    Braze is a little different than the above, more a league of it's own
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    Microsoft
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
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    User Ratings
    BrazeMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (82 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (49 ratings)
    5.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrazeMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    Appropriate if an organization is already using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement products like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service etc. Not appropriate for a big enterprise where has a separate marketing department, and the lead / contact for marketing information / marketing list can come through different applications in the organization, not just Microsoft Dynamics 365 Apps if they have one.
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    Pros
    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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    Microsoft
    • Customer data management
    • Lead management
    • Campaign strategy design
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    Cons
    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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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft does not provide HTML for forms. They provide a div that needs to authenticated and is a real pain in the [butt].
    • They provide no canned unsubscribe button. Copying the code from a template doesn't work either, even though your code will pass testing when you build out an email.
    • Overall the work marketing automation tool on the market. It's like they did no research into what users might want or what the competitors are offering.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I wouldn't even think of renewing our use of Marketing 365. It's worthless
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    Usability
    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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is extremely usable in order to manage all of my organization's customer information across the organization. Further we use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing to manage all of our marketing campaigns from beginning to end. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing makes my organization more able to run a professional marketing strategy.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Microsoft
    Very reliable
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    While the cost was significantly more than other vendors we looked at, the tools are similar to our previous tool so conversion would be (somewhat) easy. We chose it because it directly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - which we integrated at the same time.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Microsoft
    • It has improved ROI for the organization replacing the old marketing tools being used earlier.
    • Made the organization cloud ready earlier the organization was using on-Prem based solution.
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