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    SAP Emarsys

    Score4.8 out of 10
    N/AEmarsys is a customer engagement platform that allows users to automate personalized campaigns across channels, based on each individual consumer’s behavior. The suite's capabilities include marketing automation, email marketing, customer engagement, customer intelligence and predictive recommendations. Emarsys is now part of SAP, since the December 2020 acquisition.N/A

    HCL Unica

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AHCL Unica is available as a cloud or on-premise solution that provides fully integrated marketing automation software for enterprise. It includes enterprise marketing automation tools that optimize marketing activities, to ensure excellent customer experiences and data privacy.N/A
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    SAP EmarsysHCL Unica
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    SAP EmarsysHCL Unica
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
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    SAP EmarsysHCL Unica
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAP EmarsysHCL Unica
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of SAP Emarsys and HCL Unica
    Feature
    SAP Emarsys
    6.5
    8 Ratings
    15% below category average
    HCL Unica
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor7.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content4.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization6.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting6.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management4.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of SAP Emarsys and HCL Unica
    Feature
    SAP Emarsys
    6.5
    5 Ratings
    18% below category average
    HCL Unica
    -
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    Lead nurturing automation6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of SAP Emarsys and HCL Unica
    Feature
    SAP Emarsys
    6.9
    8 Ratings
    6% below category average
    HCL Unica
    -
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    Dashboards7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of SAP Emarsys and HCL Unica
    Feature
    SAP Emarsys
    7.0
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    HCL Unica
    -
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    API7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability6.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP EmarsysHCL Unica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    SAP EmarsysHCL Unica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    Emarsys is well suited for any company with an established list of contacts and an interest in email marketing. It's easy to manage, scalable, and has plenty of customization features to make your emails your own. If you're ever stuck, the responsive customer service team will help you out. I recommend Emarsys for medium to large size companies.
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    HCLSoftware
    I think it is wel suited for a business with a lot of one on one relations in the database. For example a supermarket that sells products to a client and gives a reduction on that product. It is nice if the selection process is not to complex and does not involve to many calculations. It is also nice if it is very clear what you want to follow up. In our environment we have lots of many-to-many relations. for example one product is held by more then one client. And that client might have more of those products with other clients. These kind of situation demands for a lot of calculations with derived fields(*), and there things go far too slow. Unica is probably not such a good solution for us, because our environment is too complex, and so is to process of creating the selection, we often have to change things in the selection flows. Because of the complexity it is difficult to see what the flow is exactly doing afterwoods, it also takes to much time to modify existing campaigns. The interface is not handy to work with, if you have long lists of variables, of tables or derived fields(*) you have to scroll through trough them, you can not really search them or reorder them. You can not drag and drop fields or other objects like derived fields in the flow, what would be easy if you have to make frequent changes to the proces flow. When you copy objects something the content of the object changes because the links with other objects or lost. (*) derived field: field to calculate something
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    Pros
    SAP
    • It has the ability to reach maximum market chains.
    • It helps to keep our customer’s data confidential in any means.
    • It encourages one-to-one customer engagement which has helped us developing more trust in our customers.
    • It is targeting the required and interested audience for the organization.
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    HCLSoftware
    • Ability to translate Multiple SQL queries into a very easy to use visual GUI.
    • Provides the ability to pre-define segments, run them once in off hours, store them in their own system tables for quick youth and a significant reduction in CPU utilization on the database.
    • It’s use of Reusable objects. Including user variables to pre-define calculations one time, macros that you can create and pass values to parameterize the SQL code And the creation of templates to easily replicate work.
    • It’s ability to bring in external data on the fly that can very easily be mapped into any flowchart.
    • It’s flexibility and creating UNIX script via triggers to automate sending of files to multiple vendors with different FTP sites
    • It’s flexibility in the output layouts that it can create.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • The email and content builder is significantly worse than other email marketing platforms I've used
    • Emails campaigns cannot be used in more than one automation flow
    • Amount of emails collected and being sent for smart insight are inaccurate
    • I've rarely completed a task without some type of user interface error
    • Customer service mostly directs you to help center on website
    • You have to pay extra for training
    • You have to pay extra for reporting in which the system cannot provide
    • Lengthy contract with a high price tag
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    HCLSoftware
    • Greater integration of real time (Interact) capabilities with outbound channels, in particular IBM eMessage Email & SMS delivery.
    • Additional outbound channels to be integrated into eMessage, including Facebook Fanpage & Twitter DM broadcasts. At the moment these are possible only through custom additional integration.
    • Support for additional marketing database technology, e.g. MySQL, Exasol, ParAccel, WX2.
    • Provision of database technology with software purchase, as Web technology (IBM WebSphere Express) is supplied for free, but no database is supplied - since IBM also market DB2, which is a supported technology it seems a shame.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    We have no intention of changing Emarsys
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    HCLSoftware
    There are three main factors to renew a licence: 1) Cost to migrate to another platform would be rather expensive and time consuming, plus the requirement of retraining employees to use a new tool 2) It has been proven time and time again that it is a market leader in the space (10 years +) 3) It can be built upon, with the addition of additional IBM EMM modules - despite theories it does have very strong digital capabilities.
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    Usability
    SAP
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    HCLSoftware
    I think it is easy to use, if you don't have to do to complex selections.
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    I didn't use the Unica support since it is with IBM, only before.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    - We had to rebuild a part of the datamart afterwards to tighten up and simplify the selection process. But as it was too time consuming to rebuild all the existing campaigns, we no run campaigns on different versions of the datamart. - The response tracking of the campaigns never worked out well, it was impossible to implement a direct response where there is a link between the lead and the response in our operational process
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    Emarsys is the email specialist service giver for our whole association. We use it to send custom and mass messages to our clients across three distinct business divisions. Email advertising is one of our greatest income driving channels due to focusing on limitations from deals regions. We can arrive at our clients through email with pertinent data and advancements, all driving income for the business. I have not used any other product marketing automation services.
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    HCLSoftware
    The contact history and the response history are so powerful. You can track whatever you want to help the call center to push relevant offers to our customer. In addition, predictive models can be built, with patience, in IBM Campaign. If you have some complaints from the call center about any campaigns, you can easily validate it into the contact or response history.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • From proficient and fast information assortment and converging to changing crude data into significant experiences, Emarsys gives you an answer that allows you to associate with your clients at an extremely close to home level and utilize that to additionally develop your business.
    • Reliable and giving cost effective services.
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    HCLSoftware
    • It helps my clients drive their business which in turn, drives more profit for them.
    • It helps my clients determine what works, and what doesn't work, in terms of their social marketing campaigns.
    • It helps navigate proper budgeting through determining what clients' users respond to, and what they find unique.
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