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    Dotdigital

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ADotdigital is a customer engagement platform that helps digital marketers and developers deliver communications across the customer journey. It uses customer data to drive engagement, conversion, and loyalty for brands as they grow and scale. The platform connects first party data across systems to surface insights and automate predictive cross-channel messages.N/A

    Pypestream

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AFounded in 2015, Pypestream created the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), a conversational AI solution where the core product, the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), is an all-in-one, cloud-based suite of 12 components designed to transform any business into a fully automated digital brand. With headquarters in New York, Pypestream has a customer base that includes Shell, Chase, Procter & Gamble, Google, Sling, and HBO Max. Pypestream provides customer engagement in several key industries,…N/A
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
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    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    DotDigital has a drag-and-drop email builder and many good templates. Using automation, I was able to send out emails with ease. During the onboarding process, you will also be able to speak with real people. We use it to create modern and engaging emails for customers, whether abandoned cart or post-purchase. It has excellent reporting modules, but it lacks a few fundamentals, which can be frustrating. As a whole, the partnership has been a success so far.
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    Pypestream
    Pypestream is suited for standard chatbot and conversational flows versus more multi-departmental scenarios. They do very well with guided flow bot services which are great for agent bots within a contact center, but less so for those implementations that have a large document management implementation for FAQs. They do well with service integrations; however, at times troubleshooting edge cases that are impacting performance and adoption can take a while to remedy. I want to believe that better monitoring tools on the platform side would alleviate this for them.
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    Pros
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    • Email Campaigns are simple and easy to crease
    • We use the SMS to alert our customers to any technical issues
    • Good support from account managers
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    Pypestream
    • Native live agent platform
    • Managed services for service creation and maintenance
    • Custom analytics
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    Cons
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    • API limits: There is a hardcoded limit on how many API calls you can make per hour, and to raise it, you have to pay.
    • The API set is very limited in general.
    • The API set is very limited in general
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    Pypestream
    • Generative AI - Large Language Model Support
    • Standardized Reporting
    • Custom UI Support
    • Developer Tools
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    Usability
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    DotDigital is not difficult to use, however, the user interface could use some optimization. There are certain elements that can be challenging to find, and the menus are not always intuitive. However, the tool makes up for that with easy to use features, like creating segments, and allowing many rules to specify these particular groups.
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    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    DotDigital's platform is simple to use for essential email marketing campaigns. Setting up Programs (action-driven automation) is simple. It gives you the ability to design stunning campaigns with a wide range of customizability. To better understand our customer base, it analyzes each email sent out. In every situation, the support team has been responsive and helpful.
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    Pypestream
    In comparison to Microsoft Bot Framework or now Azure AI service structure, where Pypestream is better suited is in those organizations who want to truly have a partner in development. Pypestream allows the flexibility for your Dev teams to do it themselves, or to be in a managed service where you provide requirements and information and they build and allow you to test and give approvals. They are more willing to work directly with you versus a Microsoft where you will eventually get pushed off to a 3rd party partner to help with advanced implementations.
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    Return on Investment
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    • Maintenance costs due to integration limits.
    • API tiers (now formalized in the documentation) were discovered after the initial purchase, so there are more recurring costs.
    • In general, a raise of costs in the IT compartment, while it can benefit marketing.
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    Pypestream
    • Enabled the contact center business lane to grow a chat agent support channel that has a 2 to 1 (customer to agent) support ratio
    • Provides an alternate channel for training, marketing information, and data services which help grow our business and support different value streams
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