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Adobe Journey Optimizer

Score7.6 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

What is Adobe Journey Optimizer?

Adobe Journey Optimizer is a customer engagement solution, enabling brands to orchestrate and deliver personalized customer engagement across all channels — including email, web, app, mobile, and more — in the moments that matter to customers.

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Who Buys & Uses Adobe Journey Optimizer

Adobe Journey Optimizer Reviews

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Pros

  • Ease of journey creation, enabling even non-technical users to build impactful campaigns (5 of 17 reviewers).
  • Multi-channel activation with customized messaging across email, push notifications, and SMS (4 of 17 reviewers).
  • Strong integration within the Adobe ecosystem, particularly with RTCDP and CJA (3 of 17 reviewers).

Cons

  • Limitations and restrictions within the platform (3 of 17 reviewers).
  • Concerns around testing and debugging (3 of 17 reviewers).
  • Challenges related to support and documentation (2 of 17 reviewers).

Adobe Journey Optimizer continuous improvement of what is already excellent

Incentivized
Daniel CardosoView profile
specialist in Marketing at Cogna (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Journey Optimizer has revolutionized business journeys. Now, with real-time events and hyper-personalization, we can offer excellence in communication, with a wealth of features for all channels.

A Adobe Journey Optimizer revolucionou as jornadas das empresas, agora com eventos em tempo real e a experiência da hiperpersonalização podemos oferecer excelência em comunicação, com riqueza de recursos para todos os canais.

Pros

  • content personalization
  • personalized real-time experience
  • Centralized customer journey

Cons

  • I would like to have a count on the journey
  • evaluate via API several times a day

Return on Investment

  • Multichannel onboarding journey improving the engagement of freshmen in the business, resulting in a decrease in the dropout rate.
  • Separate business of anticipation of receivables from suppliers that used to be manual and now I have connected this entire operation via the S3 connector, less manual work and significant gains in conversions and payments

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform

Other Software Used

Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics

Review on Adobe Journey Optimizer

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Marketing (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use AJO for creating journeys and campaigns for North America, also I create audiences where those campaigns are going to read to send the different actions like emails, SMS and Push notifications. I use it to export audiences as well to different groups and the business problems the product addresses is the right communication with client, using the right channel and program campaigns suitable for each customer

Pros

  • The interface is very user friendly
  • lets you upload an already created HTML correctly
  • Gives an estimate for audiences created before publishing them

Cons

  • It doesn´t keep the last search you sis in the journeys and you have to enter the search parameter every time
  • there is a window of time during the day that the audiences give out errors and you can´t see the estimates
  • I should be able to select STO in campaigns, not only in journeys
  • I should be able to select the email parameters when using campaigns

Return on Investment

  • Improved the engagement when building a good audience
  • improved the open rate
  • increased the already created audiences and prospects

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Experience Platform and Adobe Acrobat Reader

Other Software Used

Figma, Jira Work Management

AJO review.

Incentivized
Stefan TabutovView profile
Senior Consultant - Data Activation in Information Technology at Hexaware (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a consultant and help my clients utilize Adobe Journey Optimizer to the best of their ability.

Pros

  • UI is very intuitive.
  • Journey Building is very simple.
  • A lot of value information/details available out of the box.

Cons

  • Limitations on number of objects in journey.
  • Limitations and general restrictions.
  • Reporting robustness.
  • AJO B2B version is still too infantile.

Return on Investment

  • Increased journey flow completion.
  • Customer Lifetime Value.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Oracle Cloud Platform

Other Software Used

Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Cloud Platform

Real-time engagement with Adobe Journey Optimizer

Incentivized
Parija Rangnekar
Chief Financial Officer in Corporate at Biz4Solutions Private Limited (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I’ve mainly used Adobe Journey Optimizer for email campaigns and triggering messages based on live customer behavior and it has also helped us connect channels like email and push to create personalized and real-time interactions. It’s also given us the ability to follow up instantly when a customer browses a product or leaves something in their cart.

Pros

  • i like how easy it is to create impactful campaigns even if you're not super technical
  • it unifies real-time customer data and helps trigger cross-channel experiences
  • the templates are super helpful when I’m not sure how to structure messages

Cons

  • What I dislike is that it has a bit of a learning curve — it’s powerful, but not very beginner-friendly at first.
  • Adobe Journey Optimizer is complicated to implement correctly and completely; honestly, without consultants doing most of it, I don’t think we could’ve done it ourselves.

Return on Investment

  • it's helped us improve conversion rates by reacting faster and more accurately to customer behavior
  • we’ve seen higher retention and better campaign performance with less manual effort
  • it’s reduced the time we spend setting up and managing campaigns

Usability

Other Software Used

Bloodhound API Microgateway, Adobe Campaign, Vasion Print

Worth trying AJO

Incentivized
Vamshi Vinjamuri
Sr Manager in Marketing at COMCAST (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we just started and deployed couple of campaigns last Nov 2024

Pros

  • email send
  • push send
  • sms send

Cons

  • dependency on AEP

Return on Investment

  • engagement rates
  • journey flow

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Braze

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