Adobe Customer Journey Analytics vs. Heap

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Adobe's Customer Journey Analytics is a service built on Adobe Experience Platform that lets the user join all data from every channel into a single interface for real-time, omnichannel analysis and visualization, allowing users to make better decisions with a holistic view of the business and the context behind every customer action.N/A
Heap
Score 8.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.
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Up to 10k sessions/month
Pricing
Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsHeap
Editions & Modules
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Free
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Up to 10k sessions/month
Growth
Starting at $3,600 annually
Up to 300k sessions/year
Pro
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Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects
Premier
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Custom sessions per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsHeap
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsHeap pricing is based on session volume. A session is a period of activity from a single user on your app or website. It can include many pageviews or events.
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User Ratings
Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsHeap
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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8.1
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.3
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Usability
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8.9
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Availability
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9.1
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Performance
8.2
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8.4
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Support Rating
8.0
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9.0
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In-Person Training
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Online Training
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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Configurability
9.0
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9.1
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Ease of integration
8.0
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Product Scalability
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7.3
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Vendor post-sale
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User Testimonials
Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsHeap
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics is very well suited for the quick access to data. With Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, you are able to pull loads of data in seconds that way you can get an answer to the stakeholders of your company that much faster. I will say that Adobe Customer Journey Analytics has a wide variety of visuals, but could always use more.
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Heap is well suited for 1. Capture customer journey with session replay 2. Identify customer behaviour and improve overall customer experience 3. Frequent and quick implementations and modifications 4. Comparative analysis for historical marketing insights Heap is not so well suited, if the aim is to capture only analytics data without any goals to improve upon customer experience / targeting appropriate users based on data tracking.
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Pros
  • I use this tool primarily to categorize my customers - segmentation option is a big plus!
  • AI driven data helps me curate different metrics together - Much easier to understand dependencies.
  • This tool not only helps the marketing team, but my customer success teams are also happy to know different touch points registered by customer.
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  • The Auto Capture function does indeed save quite a bit of time, and being able to build new reports off historical data is really valuable.
  • Interface is really intuitive and user-friendly. Much easier to pick up and use than GA.
  • Building reports out on the fly is really quick and easy, allowing you to give right into all kinds of analyses.
  • The Event Definition screen is really useful, giving a quick glance at the most used events, which you then decide to turn into conversions or goals if you want.
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Cons
  • Journey Canvas UI, when using a mouse with scroll wheel, it defaults to zooming in or out of the map, and not up and down if the map is very extensive.
  • When trying to break down a dimension by a second dimension and third dimension. If you are replacing the 2nd dimension breakdown, it would be beneficial to keep the 3rd breakdown instead of wiping it out.
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  • I think Heap can improve its onboarding; I would love to see some info that is helpful for someone who isn't in Heap every single day.
  • Sharing dashboards can be tricky, it feels like a huge learning curve that I already have forgotten how to do.
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Likelihood to Renew
It's the most customizable and flexible analytics tool I've used. While the tool can be slow and clunky at times, the value it provides far outweighs those issues. Being able to bring offline data and merge with web data to combine in one place is where clients need to be get the most success out of their data
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Heap helps me understand key data points without fussing with the formatting of a dashboard. It gives me the benefit of data analyzation without the fuss of the formatting - as well as the ease of sharing data collected with my colleagues
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Usability
Would rate Adobe Customer Journey Analytics's overall usability at around 7. While it offers powerful insights and flexibility for in-depth analysis, its interface and setup can be complex, especially for new users. The extensive customization options are valuable but can also feel overwhelming, and it would benefit from more intuitive navigation and streamlined workflows to enhance ease of use.
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Sometimes, Heap has issues reconciling similar selectors, and I have not found the manual tagging system to be the most intuitive, especially when best practices are not used when designing the front-end infrastructure. Even so, it helps that the data is unmodified, and all analytics are done through an interfaced layer, so damage and confusion [are] not permanent.
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Reliability and Availability
For the most part, CJA is available. There are instances where the product is experiencing an outage but I haven't found this to be super frequent to the point where it really impedes my work
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I've never run into any issues with Heap's availability, Heap is always there when I need it. I haven't run into any issues like application errors or unplanned outages during my 2+ years of using Heap. Each and every time I log in to Heap I have a completely functional experience
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Performance
You can integrate online and offline data into one platform. help to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies while the customizable dashboards and reports make it easy to interpret complex datasets it’s possible to merge data from various customer touchpoints (i.e. web interactions, mobile app usage, and in-store visits) into one cohesive platform
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On a scale from 1-10, Heap loads pages fairly quickly. The only time I experience delays is when I am loading a graph with perhaps too many events or filters on the page. But in terms of creating or searching for events or viewing reports, I don't ever experience a lag.
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Support Rating
Good enough tools and offline support. We had a model of "hypercare" that was mostly good, sometimes not good. But that was more personality/people based, rather than established processes. Overall the support was timely and effective
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Heap support has allowed us to troubleshoot and test a lot of different items. Their support team is always helpful and friendly, even when we come to them with the most complicated questions. I think this greatly improves the value proposition of the product because their support team is knowledgable and friendly.
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In-Person Training
Should be staged differently. It should be Do online stuff, get basic skills/qual. Then do "homework" type tasking, then come to class with an instructor. We got the traditional "start from 0, then step 1, then step 2..." training. This usually saps energy/focus. All training should be like a lab/practice session. If someone needs information or basic knowledge ... put it in a elearning, FAQ, job aid, or resource page.
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Online Training
Should have more of this for the 101-level stuff. No one needs a Zoom class covering the basics. I need a "guide on the side" when I'm learning new stuff. I want support while I practice.
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Implementation Rating
Get trained up early, get your people in it and using/testing it.
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The implementation was smooth and easy. The Heap team helped us with implementation and it went great! Within a few weeks, we were fully up and running and utilizing the platform to its full capability. This is an additional thing that has made this platform so great and we couldn't recommend it enough.
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Alternatives Considered
One major reason is no one can beat adobe in customer service even if we have problem they are their to help you out immediately. The amount of features and the ease of using tool customer journey analytics provide is sufficient for my organisation as other platforms are bit complicated and take ample of time to learn them properly whereas this is just super easy and to get hold of it and as per the price area this is the best available in market
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Heap is better because its easy to use, easy to install. With Heap you just add a snippet of tracking code to your header, instead of having to instrument each event like you do with other tools.
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Scalability
You have the ability to create 'user groups' with different levels of access in CJA. We helped set this up for a large organiztion where they had marketers, executives, devs and analysts all having different levels of access to use CJA but with the appropriate guardrails in place for each user group. It worked out really well for their organization.
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The most challenging part of using Heap in a growing organization is the naming and structure in which reports and dashboards are organized. I work within the marketing department and our Heap leader internally works within the IT/Product department, which makes it challenging because we often don't speak the same language, so the learning curve has been steep without any specific use-case examples to leverage online.
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Return on Investment
  • ROI dictated by the number of individuals dedicated to maintaining the AEP instance for the business
  • Marketing team should be operating at a high level of technical understanding to derive the most benefit
  • Clear understanding of business KPIs and a willingness to judge strictly against these standards is a requirement
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  • It has helped us make decisions on what products to scope for our MVP based on the usage data.
  • It's allowed us to measure success with our beta product.
  • It's helped us view our conversion rates in an easy and usable manner.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Customer Journey Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Graph-Based Stitching in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Derived Fields in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Data Views in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Data Governance in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of AI Assistant in Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsScreenshot of Attribution Models in Adobe Customer Journey Analytics

Heap Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.