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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A

    Salesforce Marketing Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMarketing Cloud is an AI-powered, cloud-based digital marketing platform within the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem. Marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.

    $1,250

    per month per installation

    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageSalesforce Marketing Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Select
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Prime
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Ultimate
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Account Engagement
    $1,250
    per month
    Engagement
    $1,250
    per month
    Intelligence
    $3,000
    per month
    Loyalty Management
    $20,000
    per month
    Personalization
    $100,000
    per year
    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageSalesforce Marketing Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageSalesforce Marketing Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    We previously used Pardot so our ability to use more dynamic and smart list building has been a game changer to our marketing efforts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud doesn't allow for form fill capabilities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    During my professional experience, I had the opportunity to use Adobe Marketo Engage alongside other solutions like HubSpot and Salesforce Marketing Cloud. While these tools offer advanced capabilities, especially in terms of integration and automation, Marketo Engage stands …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Adobe Marketo Engage is best in class
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Better control on data and many options for lead scoring, email optimization is great and tracking email Deliverability is just awesome
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Marketo is the most comprehensive and robust marketing automation platform that I've worked in. It has everything that an organization may need from your standard marketing functions (i.e. email campaigns, landing pages, forms) to automated workflows. One downside is that there …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Marketo and Hubspot are the most popular amongst our customers looking for Marketing automation integration.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Marketo is way better than all except ELOQUA
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Marketo provides email marketing services but does so much more.
    While Hubspot, SFMC, and ActiveCampaign have more automation, they do not come close to the customization that Marketo allows you to create.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    I've used Campaign, Pardot, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud in my career along with Marketo, to me Marketo seems like a clear choice and a winner in terms of platform usability, reliability, and capability to customize items. For example, in Pardot, users aren't able to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Marketo Engage is far more advanced and offers a wider range of capability and customization. It is not just an out of the box tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    I enjoyed how intuitive hubspot was, however, Marketo has the ability to do more if you're willing to invest the time into it. Marketo is by far the most customizable and feature rich in my opinion.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Before having Marketo, we used to have sendgrid and Mailchimp for sending out emails and Pardot for lead management. This setup worked for us okay, but it had a lot of moving parts and was prone to fail as we scale. Due to certain compliance and privacy requirements of our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    With Pardot, we had issues with how the rules worked when we evaluated it. We were also concerned with platform stability. With the price point being the same across both, we chose to go with Marketo. Compared to Eloqua (now part of Oracle Marketing), Eloqua was seen as a more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Chose it for the ease of use, though it lacks a few features compared to others.However the form builder, landing page and email editor is old-school and clunky.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Adobe Marketo Engage has an outstanding ability to customize everything; right from setting up custom fields, custom activities, custom objects, API integrations, etc. makes Adobe Marketo Engage stand out from the crowd. Adobe Marketo Engage has a lot of add-on features like - …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    In my opinion, HubSpot is much easier and intuitive then Adobe Marketo Engage. Pardot is worse then Adobe Marketo Engage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    I’ve selected Marketo multiple times at different orgs as it’s the best MAP available. It has very few weaknesses whereas the other have far more pro’s and con’s
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    We did not select Marketo, it was the only option available at the time we decided we needed Marketing Automation platform.
    Today we know that for most of our customers HubSpot is the better solution for many reasons.
    We would only recommend Marketo to larger companies with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Marketo is the best of the three options listed above for large enterprise organizations. Hubspot is the most user-friendly out of all of them, however. Pardot is definitely last on the list out of the three due to its limited capabilities. Once you get the hang of Marketo …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    Adobe Marketo Engage is better on customization as Marketo Engage provides a high degree of customization, allowing organizations to tailor the platform to their specific needs and requirements. This includes customizing workflows, campaigns, and landing pages. It's also better …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    I have worked with all three providers across different businesses and seen the benefit of each one in different ways. It is good that Salesforce Marketing Cloud connects well with salesforce as a sales management CRM. Hubspot is a lot. more user friendly of an interface and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    I think that all of the marketing platforms I have evaluated and used in the past serve different markets and purposes. Salesforce Marketing Cloud was more palatable to our team because of our existing tech stack where we had Salesforce CRM already deployed and in use. Compared …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud is intuitive and does what it needs to do. The functions are easy to find, and the automation options work smoothly. You find an intuitive workspace in both HubSpot and Marketo Engage, and the options in these programs look similar to Salesforce Sales …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot has a tighter integration with Salesforce CRM compared to Marketo. This allows for more seamless data transfer. MCAE has a slightly more user-friendly interface compared to Marketo, which can make it easier for non-technical users to navigate. From the cost perspective, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot is user friendly and easy to learn and work on.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot is a better price point compared to some of the other B2B platforms.

    Some of the functionality may be lacking compared to some of the other B2B, and definitely B2C platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot is definitely one of the best tools out there. It's got a great UX and it is intuitive, easy to learn, and fast. Some of their naming conventions are a little bit confusing, like Users vs. Prospects. Published Templates vs. Draft Templates. List Emails vs. Sent Emails …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot is pretty much on the same level. We chose Pardot because it integrates directly with Salesforce. We already use Contentful for landing pages, so we weren't too worried about using Pardot's builder. I really liked the simplicity of the visual email workflows. Coming …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot was less expensive than HubSpot or Marketo. Compared to Act-On, it was similar in price but had more features and the integration with Salesforce was better and natively supported. Compared to SharpSpring, it doesn't have the same strong features, but the integration …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    The decision for our organization to switch to Pardot was a global decision and was not very popular. Countries in our company who were using Marketo were very happy and we seem to have limited ourselves by going with Pardot. Overall, Pardot works fine, but Marketo has much …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot works well with Salesforce and can handle our organization globally.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    I found Marketo to have stronger, more granular functionality around automation. However, Pardot is MUCH easier to use, and thus more manageable for one or two people. You don't need to have a developer on your team to be able to put out some great looking content. Pardot is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot is a VERY flexible tool. Most have thought of it as a very adolescent tool, but it holds its own against Marketo in the VAST majority of areas. You DON'T need a near full-time developer to keep it working (unlike Marketo). Act-on was limited in what it could do, HubSpot …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    We originally used Marketo but switched when Salesforce bought Pardot. We expected the Salesforce/Pardot integration to be better than Marketo but that was not the case for many years. However, now I think the integration is as good as Marketo and having both products …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    I've used both Infusionsoft and Marketo in previous roles to aid in marketing automation. Infusionsoft is much more small business and is great for that market. Marketo, although appropriate for a variety of company sizes, is less user friendly and requires more developed …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    I used Marketo and hated it. It was difficult to use, required too many steps to execute a program, and the customer service was terrible. I actually don't know why anyone would use it when options like Pardot and Hubspot are available. Pardot is exactly the opposite - easy to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    HubSpot: Pardot wins (by a huger margin) on both product and customer service.

    Eloqua/Marketo/Silverpop - have used all three of these. They are solid solutions but integration with Salesforce is not as tight or reliable. In addition I found clients have a longer time to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    My previous company was using MailChimp because we did not have the data volume needed for deep integrations. I would say that MailChimp’s interface is considerably more user friendly. Templates are better (and often used by Pardot if you view the source html code) and are less …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Marketo was a very robust platform. It carried a lot of functionality that was not really needed for our team. When going through the platform I felt very overwhelmed with the many features they offered. For many companies that are looking to bring on an automation program on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Pardot's ease of use was hands down one of our deciding factors along with price and integration with Salesforce, GoToWebinar, and GoodData.
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    For my current needs, Act-On outshined Pardot. But at my previous company, we picked Pardot over Marketo because at the time it outshined Marketo's abilities and the Salesforce connection made it a safer bet for support since the team was new to marketing automation. I have …
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    We chose Pardot because it was priced in the middle of the other marketing automation softwares we tested and demonstrated. We thought that they all had the same capabilities and most of the same functions. We also thought that Pardot looked easier to navigate. Some of the …
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    We have only ever used Pardot. I was not in charge of purchasing Pardot but I believe our company also looked into Marketo.
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    I have used Marketo and it did not live up to most of its promises and the support was abysmal, Hubspot is good but hard to apply to enterprise systems across all channels, Silverpop was not as thought out and learning curve was a bit steeper, as is my experience with …
    Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Unfortunately, I joined my company once the software was purchased.
    I would have gone with Marketo or Eloqua instead.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageSalesforce Marketing Cloud
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    993 Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    7.9
    167 Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.2902 Ratings8.1118 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.8878 Ratings7.6149 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.8857 Ratings7.7108 Ratings
    Landing pages7.8920 Ratings7.8117 Ratings
    A/B testing8.3905 Ratings7.9147 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.9877 Ratings7.3107 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting6.3961 Ratings8.2128 Ratings
    List management8.8958 Ratings8.6125 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.2868 Ratings8.191 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    961 Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    8.3
    121 Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.4936 Ratings8.3107 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.7911 Ratings8.3108 Ratings
    Data quality management6.6909 Ratings8.1113 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.4863 Ratings8.699 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    889 Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    7.8
    111 Ratings
    Calendaring7.1719 Ratings8.3100 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing8.4850 Ratings7.394 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.5
    556 Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    8.2
    85 Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns7.8547 Ratings8.480 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings8.036 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.0
    962 Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    8.2
    121 Ratings
    Dashboards8.3904 Ratings8.4115 Ratings
    Standard reports7.9942 Ratings8.4120 Ratings
    Custom reports7.8897 Ratings7.997 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.9
    953 Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    7.6
    121 Ratings
    API8.0821 Ratings7.087 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.8698 Ratings7.486 Ratings
    Customizability7.9844 Ratings7.4108 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com9.3822 Ratings8.3110 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.3283 Ratings8.713 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.2185 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings6.921 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageSalesforce Marketing Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (1145 ratings)
    8.1
    (325 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    8.1
    (114 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (98 ratings)
    4.1
    (35 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    7.0
    (36 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    3.0
    (17 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.6
    (34 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)