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    Ensighten Manage

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AEnsighten Manage is a popular tag management system used globally, promising to increase page loading speed, accelerate tag deployment, and facilitate omnichannel 1:1 customer engagement across platforms and devices. Ensighten provides tag control by visitor, session, and page, and harmonizes data collection. The company’s Tag Delivery Network serves billions of tags annually for familiar brands like Sony, Staples, Symantec, T-Mobile, and United Airlines.N/A

    Ensighten Pulse

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AEnsighten Pulse is a customer data platform from Ensighten offering multi-channel data collection and the ability to create robust, "360-degree view" customer profiles.N/A
    Pricing
    Ensighten ManageEnsighten Pulse
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Ensighten ManageEnsighten Pulse
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Ensighten ManageEnsighten Pulse
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Ensighten Manage and Ensighten Pulse
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.6
    22 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Ensighten Pulse
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions7.622 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Ensighten Manage and Ensighten Pulse
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.7
    23 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Ensighten Pulse
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    Ratings
    Tag library9.421 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping7.220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags7.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution7.321 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring7.718 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page load times8.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging5.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions8.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Management & Integrity
    Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Ensighten Manage and Ensighten Pulse
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.5
    20 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Ensighten Pulse
    -
    Ratings
    Event tracking7.216 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile event tracking6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data distribution management7.815 Ratings00 Ratings
    Universal data layer8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated error checking7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Ensighten ManageEnsighten Pulse
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (27 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Ensighten ManageEnsighten Pulse
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ensighten
    Ensighten manage can be setup to be used by non technical business users. However the product provides a lot of flexibility by the way of custom custom Javascript and HTML tags, and advanced features like events, which needs coding experience as well as understanding of web technologies. Ensighten mobile is also a promising tool, but so far we have not had any luck setting it up, mainly due to challenges with Android setup
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    Ensighten
    Ensighten Pulse is particularly well suited to the type of work Ovative/group does in the marketing attribution space, but is also very well suited to drive the data collection efforts for personalization on-site as well. Pulse is also extremely well suited in scenarios where a client may want to track individuals across many domains or touchpoints
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    Pros
    Ensighten
    • Supports typical software development life cycle (SDLC) process by facilitating DEV, QA and PROD deployment stages through spaces.
    • Roles and security can be thoroughly defined.
    • Very good selection of tagging technologies.
    • Site is stable, no availability concerns.
    • GUI in general is straightforward.
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    Ensighten
    • Pulse is the ultimate tracking tool. Almost anything you want to do with it is enabled and capable.
    • Pricing for Pulse was very aggressive as an early buyer.
    • The support team for Pulse is always very quick to respond and adapt their product roadmap to meet customer feedback.
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    Cons
    Ensighten
    • While the code templates that are already existent provide an easy interface to leverage existing code sets, custom codes still need to be written a lot of times since the templatized versions apply them to a global scope only and not for individual URLs or regex's for specific use cases for pixel vendors. Also, the library needs to be updated more frequently with new pixel vendors injecting their own variations of codes
    • Professional services (both the shared and dedicated model) definitely needs a lot of improvement since this is something that we have been immensely challenged with as a client of Ensighten in general. General response times and availability of support hours both from an account management standpoint and professional services/support standpoint have been quite challenging in the past year or two and there has been no real progress on this front
    • Ensighten Manage uses its own best practices to modify certain code sets from say JavaScript to Jquery for instance as it may be more compatible within its platform. This needs to change so that the tool is more nimble, agile and flexible in accepting and executing on different vendor codes
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    Ensighten
    • Documentation - While Ensighten Pulse itself and the implementation process of the core components are documented rather well, the peripheral implementation steps, i.e. how to use this with a specific marketing platform, are not well documented. That said, the Ensighten support channels have been hugely beneficial in making these steps happen.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ensighten
    For the volume of tracking pixels that we plan to implement it only makes sense for us to continue. At this point, development is benefiting significantly from not being bogged down with writing tracking pixel code and the marketing team(s) enjoy being able to stay connected to their tool deployments. As the portfolio of tracking methods increases, the usage of Ensighten will increase with it.
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    Ensighten
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    Usability
    Ensighten
    The GUI looks professional and is overall very usable. Menu and buttons are laid out well and easy to view. Wizard-like tag configuration is pleasant. Color scheme is pleasant to view, lacking fatiguing colors. Page load progress indicator is reassuring. Filters on past-visited screens are remembered, very handy. Filter options are flexible.
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    Ensighten
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    Support Rating
    Ensighten
    The Ensighten Manage support team has been helpful and dedicated to assisting us solve problems that come up with tag deployments even when the issues are completely unrelated to the core Manage product itself. They seem to have the right mix of tag-specific subject matter experts and general support resources.
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    Ensighten
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    Implementation Rating
    Ensighten
    Ensighten is a great tool, and as good as any in the industry with strong workflow capabilities, an admin API and a friendly interface. It does have some limitations and is not entirely "marketer friendly" as they claim. Also, note we've experienced some performance/load time issues with the Ensighten data layer, which we are addressing with them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ensighten
    We've used Ensighten Tag Management since 2013 - before this, we used Adobe's out of the box dynamic tagging solution. Since Ensighten is a purpose-built tool, it provides a great deal more flexibility than that of Adobe. Rule-drived spaces and conditions were not available in Adobe's tag container. Ensighten's visual tagger is unique in its ability to place MBOXes on the page for A/B testing. Finally, mobile tagging is simply not possible without going through the release process, which Ensighten has freed us from
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    Ensighten
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    Return on Investment
    Ensighten
    • Increased complexity when debugging so bug are taking longer to fix when they are related to Ensighten
    • Our sites are loading about 10 seconds faster and have opened our eyes as to how much javascript we are rendering onto our sites which is no longer needed.
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    Ensighten
    • We identified over 20M impressions that should have been re-allocated due to frequency caps and have utilized our modeling to push more adaptive frequency caps by marketing message through our ad network.
    • We will pilot a program where we block 'saturated' users and those exhibiting 'bot-like' behavior through our ad networks to further improve our advertising effectiveness.
    • We do have a resource cost in maintaining a separate server and a systems developer to maintain our environment. Where I'd prefer to pay for a full SaaS application and utilize that resource in another area.
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