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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

    ClickDimensions

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AClickDimensions is an email marketing and marketing automation platform for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Features include email marketing, web tracking, lead scoring, social discovery, campaign tracking, and form capture.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageClickDimensions
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Select
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Prime
    Pricing based on database size.
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageClickDimensions
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageClickDimensions
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    I enjoyed how intuitive hubspot was, however, Marketo has the ability to do more if you're willing to invest the time into it. Marketo is by far the most customizable and feature rich in my opinion.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    We started with Adobe Marketo Engage and used them for around 5 years. However, we did not grow much with the tool and support and customer success did little to help us with our growth in the tool. So the cost was not justifiable so we switched to a different provider at less …
    Incentivized
    ClickDimensions
    Chose ClickDimensions
    Evaluated Salesforce, Marketo, Hubspot. Selected ClickDimensions for cost and integration with Microsoft Dynamics.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    232 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    191 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    237 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    150 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    137 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageClickDimensions
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and ClickDimensions
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    993 Ratings
    3% above category average
    ClickDimensions
    3.9
    10 Ratings
    64% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.2902 Ratings5.38 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.8878 Ratings4.010 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.8857 Ratings1.410 Ratings
    Landing pages7.8920 Ratings1.710 Ratings
    A/B testing8.3905 Ratings3.710 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.9877 Ratings1.710 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting6.3961 Ratings4.610 Ratings
    List management8.8958 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.1868 Ratings6.39 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and ClickDimensions
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    961 Ratings
    0% below category average
    ClickDimensions
    4.7
    10 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation8.4936 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.7911 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Data quality management6.6909 Ratings3.08 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.4863 Ratings4.07 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and ClickDimensions
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.7
    889 Ratings
    4% above category average
    ClickDimensions
    2.5
    7 Ratings
    99% below category average
    Calendaring7.1719 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing8.4850 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and ClickDimensions
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.5
    556 Ratings
    0% below category average
    ClickDimensions
    5.5
    3 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns7.8547 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings3.13 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and ClickDimensions
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.0
    962 Ratings
    9% above category average
    ClickDimensions
    2.6
    9 Ratings
    95% below category average
    Dashboards8.3904 Ratings2.09 Ratings
    Standard reports7.9942 Ratings2.09 Ratings
    Custom reports7.8897 Ratings3.87 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and ClickDimensions
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.9
    953 Ratings
    6% above category average
    ClickDimensions
    4.4
    10 Ratings
    52% below category average
    API8.0821 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.8698 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Customizability7.9844 Ratings2.07 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com9.3822 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.3283 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.2185 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageClickDimensions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (1145 ratings)
    2.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (98 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Marketo EngageClickDimensions
    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.
    Incentivized
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    ClickDimensions
    ClickDimensions is great for SMB companies looking for an easy to use, robust platform especially in situations where there are only a few people within the Marketing Department.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    ClickDimensions
    • The nurture campaign builder was great. Easy to use and to follow along with.
    • The drop and drag editor was easy to use and you could start using it with no training.
    • I always like when a service offers a certification for their product. ClickDimensions training was easy to follow, gave good content/tips/tricks and really helped me learn the platform.
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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
    Incentivized
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    ClickDimensions
    • Creating lists based on customer email behaviour was technically possible, but in practise nearly impossible
    • Managing customer preferences and subscriptions felt extremely convoluted
    • Interfaces generally not intuitive
    • Reporting was not in the class of competitors
    • Deliverability - seems like in onboarding basic things weren't checked off. We really needed a platform expert to implement.
    Incentivized
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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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    ClickDimensions
    I see no reason for us to deprecate use at this point. It is important for us as a business to maintain our partnership with them and keep on the pulse of leading technology. ClickDimensions is a marketplace leader for the world of marketing automation, and in coordination with CRM, it's all the more relevant.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    ClickDimensions
    I want to stay neutral. It's not that this product doesn't have appealing features or capabilities, it's that they aren't consistent and stable. So you lose data or your data is not accurate. Or some connection fails and the workflow doesn't trigger as it is supposed to, or the visits or clicks or other metrics contain bad data one month, then the next they're back to normal. This company needs to focus on getting their core product right and not on new features.
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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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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    ClickDimensions
    You submit a ticket and they will always come back asking for more information. So the next time you try to be proactive and add that information to the original ticket, but then they come back and ask for something else. It gets to the point where you have to believe it is a stall tactic. You ask for more detail into their processes and you get the runaround. 9 times out of ten they will point the finger at Dynamics 365 as the culprit. It is like pulling teeth to get to Tier 2 support and then the questions start all over again, even if you send screenshots.
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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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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ClickDimensions
    Clickdimensions is severely impeded by its integration into Dynamics CRM. Consequently it lacks the Intuitiveness of HubSpot, and the straightforward usability of MailChimp. It is a perfect system if you want to exist entirely within Dynamics, but it requires a high degree of expertise in Dynamics to get maximum value out of it. We're currently migrating to HubSpot, and while the initial integration is proving challenging, I already sense we will be able to deliver a lot more of our marketing goals much more easily, and see an ROI.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
    Incentivized
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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ClickDimensions
    • Tracking Email Engagement by customer is much easier. Real Time Stats/Email Engagement Report already built in.
    • Lead scoring helps develop more qualified leads.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Contact Timeline in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Audience Feature in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Progressive Profiling in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Insights Dashboard in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Sources in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Metrics in Adobe Marketo Engage

    ClickDimensions Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create email templates inside Dynamics CRM with our drag and drop email editorScreenshot of Collect contact and lead data through web forms and landing pagesScreenshot of Build multi-channel, automated campaigns using an easy drag and drop interfaceScreenshot of View your marketing performance at a glance right inside DynamicsScreenshot of Use reporting to accurately measure your sales and marketing campaigns