Adobe Audience Manager vs. Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Audience Manager
Score 9.6 out of 10
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Adobe Audience Manager is a data management platform (DMP) that is integrated into the Adobe Marketing Cloud.N/A
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Adobe's Real-Time Customer Data Platform allows marketers to collect, normalize, and unify known and pseudonymous consumer and professional data into real-time profiles. These person or account-based profiles then power B2B, B2C, and hybrid customer experiences at scale.N/A
Pricing
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Real-Time CDP
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAdobe offers three tiers of Real-Time CDP tailored for any type of business wanting to power their customer experience management strategy with unified customer data. The Business-to-Consumer Edition is for B2C brands wanting to personalize experiences for consumers. The Business-to-Business Edition is for B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for leads and accounts. The Business-to-Person Edition is for combined B2C and B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for the same person across all lines of business.
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Community Pulse
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
Considered Both Products
Adobe Audience Manager
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
Overall all DMPs have suffered from the death of 3rd party cookies and data. Regardless the close ties to adobe’s experience platform and the rest of the experience cloud stack have enabled adobe to stay competitive and keep features up; however in the end this product will …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
I would say Adobe Audience Manager is right in between LiveRamp and Salesforce. It is easy to use but not as flexible. There are also a lot of limitations in terms of integrations and advancement into offline capabilities. It does a better job than salesforce in terms of …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
Both tools are very similar. Adobe Audience Manager and Tealium AudienceStream work well with third-party vendors. However, Adobe Audience Manager is easy to integrate into the Adobe Experience cloud and can be commissioned quickly.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
For now its only one year since we have started using Adobe Audience Manager so have not explored on the alternatives. As earlier mentioned pretty much satisfied other than the cost concern.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
I personally like the Adobe Audience Manager interface and it's easier to use for beginners. It also has some features that Google does not, nor do its other competitors. It is worth the money and time spent, overall. I feel like it gives a bigger and more in-depth picture to …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
An excellent suite of products form products. Limited data sets by competing products.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
Adobe Audience Manager is more sophisticated than Google Ad Manager, and it is mainly for enterprise-level audience management. Also, it is integrating well with Adobe Analytics, which we use for digital analytics. Google Ad Manager is more for small and mid-size companies, so …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
The benefits of AAM is that it has stronger marketing and advertising, interner and broadcasting media, and supermarkets. While Amazon Pinpoints has its benefits with its interface, computer software, and accounting, AAM has a slight edge against its competitor in terms of …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
We selected Adobe audience manager because of integrated experience we wanted to have with whole Adobe marketing cloud.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
From a main user standpoint, we selected AAM due to my experience with it and our ability to easily integrate it with our currently system. While we evaluated the other options, it was Adobe's customer service and reputation that ultimately served as an additional reason to …
Adobe Real-Time CDP
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Its my favorite tool in the entire Adobe Experience Platform ecosystem. I thought that its important to be connected with your customers and the best way to do it its to have a really good description to reveal what they like and prefer, that's the most important thing, so …
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Journey Optimizer and Adobe Experience Manager
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe Campaign, Adobe Target and Adobe Analytics
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
CDP enables data management and segment aspects, leveraging data from ADobe Analytics and EDL, while Adobe Target enables us to do A/B Testing and personilation use-cases
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
It is extremely valuable to have AEP as shared data foundation for the different Adobe products
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe takes a very different approach to how profiles are stitched together than these other platforms. There are pros and cons, but there are more pros to the way Adobe has approached it. Also, the Adobe approach is designed from the ground up in the context of the other AEP …
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Because of multiple reason:
1. Supports AI
2. Real time data processing
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
The whole stack approach and have everything under the same vendor simplifies things.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe CDP is a very capable product that offers all of the features that its competitors offer and more. The only differences can be noticed while connecting with other external tools. Adobe can help easily connect with tools within its ecosystem: Analytics/Marketo/Target, etc.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
I have no answer for now.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Synerise - All segments are real-time. We do not need to wait for the batch process. Data automations/transformation processes in SAS 360 - do not know well. However, AEP has better UI.
Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
Adobe has a better usability, overall better profile governance and a better estimation for audiences. It works great with other Adobe Products
Features
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
Data Collection
Comparison of Data Collection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.6
Ratings
6% above category average
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Collection of first-party data8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Collection of third-party data8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Access to Third-party Data Providers9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Classification
Comparison of Data Classification features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
7.3
Ratings
12% below category average
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Audience taxonomy7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Analysis Dashboard7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Data Transfer8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
DMP Analytics
Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
6.8
Ratings
15% below category average
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Campaign Analytics5.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Analytics8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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Usability
8.5
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Support Rating
7.8
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User Testimonials
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
If you feel as though your online presence isn't quite hitting where it should, Adobe Audience Manager (AAM) might provide the insights to help you identify the areas in which it is lacking (the gaps). As a result, you can adjust your approach and optimize your customer interactions. With that said, if you currently deploy software for the analysis of customer data, you should consider whether AAM will add value. I would suggest setting some strategic objectives so that you can ensure that AAM will meet your current and future needs.
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Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform is well suited for organisations that have extensive PII data with attributes & consumer behaviors. Also, who wants to run omnichannel customer acquisition and focus on middle- or low-funch campaigns? Also, having multiple digital assets (i.e., website, mobile application, CRM, SMS campaign channels, etc).
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Pros
  • Adobe Audience Manager is GDPR compliant and includes a data export control so that the use of data is in accordance with data protection and user agreements.
  • Adobe Audience Manager pulls data from a variety of sources, creates audiences, and exports segments to each destination.
  • Adobe Audience Manager has AI-based components. A new feature is DMP tools, which enables the automated creation of target groups.
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  • Real time segmentation and profiling on high volume of customer data
  • Integration of various customer data sources, ranging from CRM, Web Analytics, EDL and other custom sources
  • Data governance of customer data in the platform, down to attribute based access controls
  • Activation across paid media, marketing automation and experience optimization platforms
  • Easy to use interface for marketers
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Cons
  • Biggest challenge we faced is teaching the use of it to our employees how to use it. The UI Should be easy and to understand for all fields.
  • The AdWords integration is not easy to do.
  • UI is sometimes slow and doesn't load Analyticals for more than 24 hours.
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  • Some features that are not yet released to all customers are necessary to manage cases like device sharing
  • The methodology of how data is stored and manage is relatively unique and requires some ramp-up to fully understand
  • There are some areas, like deduplication, where the platform doesn't provide the flexibility one would expect
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Likelihood to Renew
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Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform quickly becomes a must-have once you are through the "build it" phase. Direct integration with a wide variety of disparate systems makes it a difficult proposition to remove once users are trained in its various systems and fully bought into the strategy behind its use. Support for a wide range of teams is helpful in adoption and continued use of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform - everyone in data engineering, martech, frontend marketing can find a use case to pursue.
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Usability
Overall usability is great, as are most of Adobe's software. Maybe a UI refresh could make it a bit easier to do advanced functions or reporting but, overall, it works very well. This is something you take for granted with Adobe solutions because when you try another vendor you realize how bad it can be.
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Activation - great Segmentation - in UI, there should be the possibility of writing advanced code Tags. Both Mobile and Desktop Data Ingestion - might be pain in the ass. Changing one customer attribute is time-consuming. It should be some super admin or some feature. One user can change some customers' attributes easily. Data Transformation - Maybe there are some modules for that in AJO?
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Support Rating
AAM has good support, but the support is not as available, due to waiting time and queue. The instructions presented are available, but it navigation is not easy between pages. However, instructions are usually direct and straightforward, but any underlying thoughts or questions won’t be easily answered without support from their service.
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Alternatives Considered
Overall all DMPs have suffered from the death of 3rd party cookies and data. Regardless the close ties to adobe’s experience platform and the rest of the experience cloud stack have enabled adobe to stay competitive and keep features up; however in the end this product will eventually be an activation mechanism for the AEP Customer Profiles from the real-time CDP platform.
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Adobe CDP is a very capable product that offers all of the features that its competitors offer and more. The only differences can be noticed while connecting with other external tools. Adobe can help easily connect with tools within its ecosystem: Analytics/Marketo/Target, etc.
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Return on Investment
  • Overall a Positive Return for Business who go All in on the Adobe Stack
  • Solid work for brokering and anonymously sharing data between first and second parties
  • The death of TRUE 3rd party data has lessened the effectiveness of all DMPs
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  • it has allowed us to gain more insights into our profiles
  • we have been able to manage our schemas with ease
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