Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform vs. Nielsen Marketing Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Neilsen Marketing Cloud includes a Data Management Platform (DMP), Media Planning and Optimization, Data as a Service (DaaS), Multitouch Attribution Analytics, Inflight Analytics, and integrations to different digital media channels as well as to content marketing, creative testing, search, email and social media platforms. It's designed to enable marketers to plan, execute, and report on all of their marketing activities from one place.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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
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Considered Both Products
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
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Nielson Cloud helps businesses find, recruit, and create new advertiser client bases, as well as stand out in a crowded public space. Measure linear and digital media metrics across channels aids in giving insights in an efficient manner. Nielson Cloud also assists businesses …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Nielson has a larger section of databases, so there are multiple options while integrating third party datasets. Even though Adobe Creative Cloud is more focused on creative agencies, the Nielson Marketing Cloud puts more emphasis on data-driven ad agencies, which works really …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Atomized is great for visualization and is better in that area. However, Nielsen Marketing Cloud is much more in-depth and has many more features available that allow for a larger variety of types of analysis and other capabilities. It is a much better overall product in this …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
We have tried a myriad of other survey companies and have found that customization does not exist in the way we like to utilize it in the prefabricated platforms. We liked Nielsen better than SurveyMonkey because there was no forced branding page at the end that would force …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
I honestly think the capabilities of AAM surpass NMC from building and syndicating audiences to running overlap analyses. I didn't select NMC myself but I know our team has a lengthy list of complaints against their platforms.
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
I like exelate better than boomerang but unfortunately I like BlueKai more than Exelate. Bluekai offers more segments which gives me more options - if exelate can just release more segments from time to time I can see them running neck and neck with BlueKai.
Features
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformNielsen Marketing Cloud
Data Collection
Comparison of Data Collection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Collection of first-party data00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Collection of third-party data00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Access to Third-party Data Providers00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Data Classification
Comparison of Data Classification features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.6
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4% above category average
Audience taxonomy00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Tag Management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Data Analysis Dashboard00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Nielsen Marketing Cloud
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Data Transfer00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
DSP integration00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
DMP Analytics
Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
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Ratings
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Campaign Analytics00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Audience Analytics00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Adobe Real-Time CDP
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Score 8.1 out of 10
Enterprises
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Adobe Real-Time CDP
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformNielsen Marketing Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
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8.0
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Support Rating
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5.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe Real-Time Customer Data PlatformNielsen Marketing Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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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It helps you evaluate the success of your marketing initiatives and make real-time changes using built-in analytics and Nielsen Artificial Intelligence. It also helps businesses find, acquire, and create new advertiser client bases, as well as stand out in a dynamic public realm. Measure linear and digital media metrics across channels aids in giving insights in an efficient manner.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Audience building is completely intuitive and easy to do!
  • The audience planner tool helps easily assess duplication across segments and audiences
  • The NMC team is always there to lend a helping hand
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Cons
  • 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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  • This software program is the maximum often down of any that I even have to get right of entry to. For being an enterprise standard, I assume the reliability can be significantly improved.
  • It has a restricted guide on mobile. I dislike the pricing version and the contracts which can be required for users. I might choose a monthly agreement alternative that could now no longer lock us in.
  • Data discrepancies are common, there is most effective month-to-month reporting available, and no keyword seek gear to use.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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I still use exelate every day for my media plans that are either direct response or extremely geo-targeted.
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Usability
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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Very easy to utilize. Features are basic. Again just not too much in the way of involved customization
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Support Rating
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I am rating this as neutral due to having minimal interaction with them
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Alternatives Considered
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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Atomized is great for visualization and is better in that area. However, Nielsen Marketing Cloud is much more in-depth and has many more features available that allow for a larger variety of types of analysis and other capabilities. It is a much better overall product in this realm of expertise.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • We are using it for analytics, statistics control, and for a single pane of glass and reviews for our senior leadership. We fetch significant insights from this device which can be then provided to our stakeholders to higher understand the achievements and loopholes.
  • We can make Marketing strategies with the help of this. Also, it is benefiting financially and getting productive.
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