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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

    TransUnion TruAudience

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ATruAudience from TransUnion, which contains technology from Signal Tag Management and Neustar Marketing, is a solution that aims to help marketers, web analysts and agencies establish autonomy from IT development cycles, accelerate the launch of new data-driven initiatives and campaigns while significantly improving website performance.N/A
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    Ensighten ManageTransUnion TruAudience
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    Pricing Offerings
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    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 ManageTransUnion TruAudience
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Ensighten Manage and TransUnion TruAudience
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.6
    22 Ratings
    5% below category average
    TransUnion TruAudience
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Role-based user permissions7.622 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Ensighten Manage and TransUnion TruAudience
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.7
    23 Ratings
    3% below category average
    TransUnion TruAudience
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Tag library9.421 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping7.220 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags7.423 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution7.321 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring7.718 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Page load times8.420 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging5.48 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions8.612 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Management & Integrity
    Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Ensighten Manage and TransUnion TruAudience
    Feature
    Ensighten Manage
    7.5
    20 Ratings
    6% below category average
    TransUnion TruAudience
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Event tracking7.216 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Mobile event tracking6.910 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data distribution management7.815 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Universal data layer8.020 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Automated error checking7.717 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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    Score5.1 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ensighten ManageTransUnion TruAudience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (27 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.5
    (5 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Ensighten ManageTransUnion TruAudience
    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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    TransUnion
    Well suited to campaigns and smaller task teams of less than 100. For these sizes, the group conversations work well, and the ability to search conversations and multimedia is perfect for finding previous information. For larger groups, information could very easily get lost, and requires a break-up into groups that would defeat the purpose of such a group chat.
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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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    TransUnion
    • Populating your library with new tags is simple whether you're duplicating an existing tag or creating an entirely new one.
    • Creating the firing conditions for a tag.
    • Adding users to different groups with limited or full admin permissions.
    • If you know JavaScript, you shouldn't have an issue with assigning values to the proper variables once your data layer is set up for each page and/or action.
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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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    TransUnion
    • Placing quotes around variable names in the Tag Attributes, but not in the Event Handlers has caused me to mess up more than once.
    • Being able to search the account for all instances of certain text would be very helpful (e.g., search for s.eVar30 to find all places where I set that SiteCatalyst variable).
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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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    TransUnion
    Because of all of the previous benefits that I mentioned, GM has mandated that any DSP that we use for their campaigns must be integrated with BrightTag. Therefore we will have to use BrightTag for all future GM business
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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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    TransUnion
    Based on the features and current usage. It shows some buggy pages plus the service and support is really very slow. The updates are not regular and company needs to work on that. The usability is good and reporting of tags is accurate which is the best part. The pricing of the product is good and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
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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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    TransUnion
    Support is really slow and it takes days to resolve an issue. Plus we have to inquire regularly for the status of resolution. Company should definitely work towards that
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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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    TransUnion
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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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    TransUnion
    Most of the tag solutions I've worked with were not nearly as robust. Most systems will let you load another tag not directly placed on the site, but none provide all the different firing levers that BT does
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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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    TransUnion
    • Wonderful for ensuring we meet our logistical and record-keeping requirements
    • Negative at being the best at quality-of-life options, like specific muting
    • Great at allowing a casual work environment in having chats for memes, pets, etc.
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