Adobe Campaign vs. SimplyCast

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Campaign
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.N/A
SimplyCast
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
SimplyCast is a customer flow communication platform that combines marketing automation, inbound marketing and interactive communication. The software enables clients to personalize messaging at the right time no matter who their audience is. SimplyCast caters to SMBs as well as enterprise clients. It also provides solutions for industries such as emergency response, automotive and marketing agencies.
$4.95
per month
Pricing
Adobe CampaignSimplyCast
Editions & Modules
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SimplyCast
$4.95
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe CampaignSimplyCast
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe CampaignSimplyCast
Considered Both Products
Adobe Campaign
Chose Adobe Campaign
more legacy, less intuitive but more customizable
Chose Adobe Campaign
We adore the fact that we can run numerous automated campaigns concurrently and that we can make changes to them without stopping and starting a new campaign. Adobe Campaign makes it possible for the process to go on.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Haven't used Salesforce Marketing Cloud much.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Sender also offers multi-channel marketing capabilities, allowing users to engage with their audience through different channels. However, the range and depth of multi-channel capabilities in Adobe Campaign are generally more extensive. So after using both the platforms I …
Chose Adobe Campaign
One of the major resons was already having AEM and creating a highly cohesive tech stack. Adobe Campaign fit the criteria.
Chose Adobe Campaign
In the end we didn’t go with Adobe Campaign.
Although it offers great a great tool set that is very flexible. You do need someone on staff that know Adobe products to get the full utilisation out of it. Ultimately what it came down to for us was that because we had a small team, …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign Standard has a lot of segmentation options out of the box and a lot better analytics. Pardot is a lot more listbased, where with Adobe Campaign, you can do complete customized segmentation, such as all permissions in base A who are currently customers of this …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Easy drag and drop user friendly maenu and optimise software a good alternative to google as campaign.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Especially in its ease of use, especially considering its price and the great possibilities that this tool has given our company. Definitely a great competitor in this sector and the best option in terms of campaign creation, without any doubt, even having things that could be …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign is more advanced when it is used with other tools from Adobe family.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign has all the features and tools that develop the whole marketing and sales channels. It has been able to integrate with our systems in all departments in development of our planning structure. While Salesforce CMS works effectively in the management of our …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Compared to other websites, Adobe Campaign stacks up with its various uses. You can create with its other platforms and follow through. Other platforms, you have to use adobe to create then go somewhere else to schedule and post. Adobe Campaign allows you to use all within one …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign is good in terms of features, offerings, it's customization options, and extensive possibilities to make a powerful email campaign or offer landing page. It's very reliable and stable too. But in terms of its dashboard UI, it is not as simple or quick to learn as …
Chose Adobe Campaign
All these applications are very similar, adobe has a differential for the company's expertise, for the way cloud services and their specialists are treated. I believe that it also has a differential in the metrics and management of flows where it is possible to have a broader …
Chose Adobe Campaign
The platform is much more complex and much more suited for complicated applications. While Mailchimp is an easier all rounded solution for starters it doesn’t allow the system integrator to do customization of the workflows and more complicated tasks. I would say that in my …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign is different from these products in that is much more all-encompassing and is able to manage more aspects of a campaign than these more singular-tracked platforms.
Chose Adobe Campaign
As we tried to centralise the marketing automation platform within the enterprise, Adobe Campaign can plug into several instances of Salesforce.com for lead management queues. All other marketing automation platforms can only plug into one instance of Salesforce.com.

Adobe …
Chose Adobe Campaign
For B2C campaign, [I] still prefer to go with Marketo. However, for all other transactional/Nontransactional, promotional, Welcome email campaigns, while it is required to handle [the] global market with [a] number of brands, [I would] [prefer to] go with Adobe Campaign …
Chose Adobe Campaign
  • Easy to install
  • Free trails
  • Lesser cost as compared to others
Chose Adobe Campaign
Pardot: Adobe is a better value for the money. Active Campaign: Adobe Campaign has more automation features but comes inexpensive.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign has a lot more features as compared to Mailchimp. While Mailchimp allows you to send a lot of communication to a lot of recipients, Adobe Campaign lets you set variables in the workflow, and send email at different times with a lot more customization. Adobe …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe is far ahead of what I used previously. Adobe has all the details of the customer which is required to increase the sales of the company and the customer also gets relevant information.
Mailchimp is just an email tool where we can send mails to multiple users.
SimplyCast
Chose SimplyCast
I use both SimplyCast and Act-On. Act-On ties in with our database, I use SimplyCast in order to send e-mails that don't look exactly like our other e-mails.
Features
Adobe CampaignSimplyCast
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
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Ratings
SimplyCast
6.3
Ratings
19% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
List management00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
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Ratings
SimplyCast
8.0
Ratings
9% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
-
Ratings
SimplyCast
7.0
Ratings
6% below category average
API00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe CampaignSimplyCast
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.4
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Usability
5.0
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Availability
7.0
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Performance
7.0
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Support Rating
5.0
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In-Person Training
8.0
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Online Training
8.0
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Implementation Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe CampaignSimplyCast
Likelihood to Recommend
Multi-Channel Campaign Management: I have found Adobe Campaign to be excellent for managing campaigns across multiple channels, including email, mobile, social media, and web. Its centralized platform allows me to plan, execute, and track campaigns effectively, making it ideal for organizations with diverse marketing channels. For example, when I was running a campaign to promote a new product launch across email, SMS, and social media channels, Adobe Campaign provided me with the tools to orchestrate and track the campaign seamlessly. I could ensure consistent messaging and a cohesive customer experience across different channels.
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Pros
  • What we like most about this application is that it provides us with the creation of ads to generate presence and impact on different channels at minimum cost.
  • It has a section where [it] [helps] us determine our preferences in terms of marketing by private messaging and offer a report of actions.
  • It also provides analysis with percentages to determine how many customers actually received our e-mail advertising.
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  • Email tracking
  • Easy to use
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Cons
  • It requires administrator rights in order to deploy into an environment.
  • We do not want changes directly in a production environment so deployments are a bottleneck since only a few have access.
  • Performing user audits are difficult or even impossible in certain cases to determine who started/executed/made changes to a workflow.
  • There's no easy way to roll back changes.
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  • Templates need updating
  • Uploading list is a bit tedious
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Likelihood to Renew
Despite the shortcomings of user interface and basic troubleshooting difficulty, Neolane is much more robust and delivers better capabilities to our sales and marketing staffs than any other product we have used here or any product our staff members have used at other locations.
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Usability
Thanks to this tool we are taking more internal control of the creation and deployment of campaigns with less dependency on an ESP. We can pre-program marketing publications, being able to concentrate on the target audience. It helps me manage email campaigns with real-time tracking.
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Reliability and Availability
Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
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Support Rating
Although there is a lot of material available on the internet to answer questions, I still feel a lack of commitment and delay in the responses of the support, but as a whole, it leaves nothing to be desired. I believe that, in the great majority, companies sin in the desired support, but we cannot generalize. But this one, in particular, has a wide range of specialists and well-qualified management, but I believe that it is not so bad.
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Alternatives Considered
Sender also offers multi-channel marketing capabilities, allowing users to engage with their audience through different channels. However, the range and depth of multi-channel capabilities in Adobe Campaign are generally more extensive. So after using both the platforms I selected Adobe Campaign for my email marketing purpose.
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I use both SimplyCast and Act-On. Act-On ties in with our database, I use SimplyCast in order to send e-mails that don't look exactly like our other e-mails
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Return on Investment
  • Adobe Campaign has boosted our ROI, with a 700% increase in the last month of using the service. These results are very favorable, and we will continue to use the service.
  • Adobe Campaign makes it easy to calculate the proposed ROI on a monthly basis, as it constantly lets us evaluate and compare the growth of our earnings in relation to previous ones.
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  • We do get responses from our e-mails
  • Do not get a lot of information like we do from Act-On
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