HCL Unica vs. QuickPivot

Extremely well integrated in the TelCos and Financial Services areas. Retail & Online Gaming are the next big sectors. Real Time capabilities via IBM Interact are starting to come to the fore as marketers start to understand the necessity for true reactive CRM. Additional functionality using IBM Distributed Marketing is also another very powerful area for the future, allowing regional marketers to fill out web based forms, which initiate and run flowcharts & email delivery automatically.

It is less appropriate in terms of usability. As discussed in the previous points, there are some UI modifications and reporting formats required that can be improved. It is less appropriate in a situation where you need too many customizations. As big data grows, data customizations will be very important as organizations need to re-organize data. This is one area where it is not very well suited or requires improvement.

Incentivized

• Campaign treats a marketing campaign as a discrete entity that is made up of one or more flowcharts, which are in turn comprised of one or more processes.
• IBM Campaign performs actual data manipulation live.
• Users do not need to know SQL to design campaigns.

Incentivized

• QucikPivot does a great job with machine learning of the stored data. This AI based method drives the firm to meaningful results.
• It stores and makes data available both online and offline. This particularly helps in accessing data from any place. Managing resources becomes easier if data is stored online.
• The Marketing campaign that can be created is led with authority, and the success ratio can actually be measured with this digital platform.

Incentivized

• Not suitable to small industries even if they really want to use. It would be great to have a lighter version to let any company use in order to make more customers.
• It would really great to have support team available whenever having the issues / difficulties with in the tool itself. At least able to respond asap.

Incentivized

• The UI of the dashboard is not as good as the other BI tools. While the metrics dashboard is a good idea, not allowing query templates to work in the metrics dashboard makes it impossible to use it as our daily dashboard.
• The e-mail shows the indicators clearly and also attaches some spreadsheets from the reports. We think it could get even better if we could also get attached a PDF version of the dashboard.
• Low user customizability. Admin have to create reports and maintain the reports very thoroughly.
• The report format is quite unreadable in email

Incentivized

I know Unica well and can make it do just about anything I need it to do. I love the abiity to call in custom code along the way for extremely complicated scenarios and optimum performance. Situations that would steer me to other applications are: If already a heavy SAS user with Enterprise Miner and/or Enterprise Guide I would seriously consider SAS CM; if already owning Teradata platform would seriously consider Teradata RM.

Incentivized

I think it is easy to use, if you don't have to do to complex selections.

I didn't use the Unica support since it is with IBM, only before.

- 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

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.

Incentivized

QuickPivot stacks very well against these tools, as it is cost effective and role-based. Other than the UI improvements, it gives a holistic picture into data analysis and marketing campaigns. It only needs deeper customizations and a few better reports. Otherwise, it would be an industry leading tool in the market.

Incentivized

• We’ve been able to send out Thousands of communications and generate over 1 billion touches per year because of the speed and flexibility of the tool.
• We’ve helped our marketing partners achieve or exceed some very lofty goals in the past two years because of the tool

Incentivized

• It does not have have a negative ROI, as it is still being used and we use it as per its strengths.
• It has a positive impact on business as it is not very expensive.
• The reports in terms of dashboard help save a lot of time and help in a drill-down analysis.

Incentivized