Adobe Target vs. Dynamic Yield

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Target
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Adobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management products.N/A
Dynamic Yield
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Dynamic Yield is presented as an AI-powered Experience Optimization platform that delivers individualized experiences at every customer touchpoint: web, apps, email, kiosks, IoT, and call centers. The platform’s data management capabilities provide for a unified view of the customer, to allow the rapid and scalable creation of highly targeted digital interactions. Marketers, product managers, and engineers use Dynamic Yield for: Launching new personalization…N/A
Pricing
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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 FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Adobe Target
Chose Adobe Target
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Chose Adobe Target
This tools are very important to create a new visual experience to Adobe Target.
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We have integration and use cases for both solutions, personalization at Marketo and use cases based on data from adobe analytics
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I still use Optimizely as it helps with project managing. We have been using that for quite sometime and we have recently started using Adobe Target Platform and are testing both of them to see which one would work the best for us. In terms of reporting Adobe Target has been …
Chose Adobe Target
Ease of use, integration with Analytics eliminated any waiting periods. Easier to implement and has more features in one place.
Chose Adobe Target
For us, the decision was very straightforward. We chose to invest in the Adobe stack and utilize tools that are developed to integrate together and complement each other. Ex: Adobe Target 'A4T' integration within Adobe Analytics. Optimizely appears to be a great tool, but …
Chose Adobe Target
Google Optimize - Way better than Adobe, even the free version. It automatically work with Google Analytics, and tracks revenue out of the box. Fantastic. Use this.

Optimizely - As a paid service, this is another good option. Tracks revenue out of the box, good heatmapping, most …
Chose Adobe Target
Previously, we had the opportunity to work with some similar services and to be honest we had a disastrous experience because they were not what we were looking for, but since Adobe Target was implemented it has proven to be a highly professional service for our company.
Chose Adobe Target
In my personal opinion, Optimizely is a clear choice here while Google Optimize is for the low-budget minded decision-makers and Evergage for the COE more geared toward personalization; however, in our case we were already locked into using Target prior to my arrival. I don't …
Chose Adobe Target
I have used Optimizely for A/B testing. Optimizely makes it easier to set up almost any type of testing experiment. Optimizely is also strongly recommended for a limited number of users and when you want to optimize the cost. Optimizely was selected over Adobe Target since the …
Chose Adobe Target
I have not used another product like Adobe Target.
Chose Adobe Target
We seriously considered another software but because we use so many other Adobe products this made the most sense for us. If you are not dependent on other Adobe software and are a smaller company, in my opinion, Target may not be the best fit.
Chose Adobe Target
Target has far superior functionality, it integrates with Adobe Analytics and is easy to build tests.
Chose Adobe Target
It fits on top of our comprehensive data stack
Chose Adobe Target
Many of the same features, but Adobe Test and Target was much more expensive.
Chose Adobe Target
Usability and implementation is harder with other products than with Test and Target.
Chose Adobe Target
Maxymiser,Monetate,Optimizely
Chose Adobe Target
We have looked at Optimizely but at this point are sticking with Test & Target. We like the integration it has with our Analytics tools such as Ad Hoc and SiteCatalyst. Also, we feel that Adobe has some interesting products that we would like to dig into in the future such as …
Chose Adobe Target
I have used Google Analytics on my personal website but I can't compare it with Test and Target, because Google Analytics is free which will do less than what Adobe Test and Target does.
Chose Adobe Target
While my organization has been using Adobe Test & Target, I have had the chance to evaluate Optimizely, another tool that allows for multivariate testing with a smooth interface. The reason I like to stick with Adobe Test & Target is its ability to interface and interact with …
Dynamic Yield
Chose Dynamic Yield
Better Product Recommendations, Ease of Use, Affinity based Personalisation, Predictive Targeting and out of the box templates.
Chose Dynamic Yield
It's mostly the speed and efficiency that make Dynamic Yield the go-to platform. It's very customizable, and tracking can be done in real-time, which is a strong point. Built-in component testing enables all team members to view and track changes easily. Not only that, it is a …
Chose Dynamic Yield
While each of the other platforms may have certain features or aspects that are stronger than Dynamic Yield, Dynamic Yield is certainly the best platform I've used of the ones listed. The ability to do both experimentation and personalization in one platform (and to have a tool …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield has many more features than Google Optimize so this allowed us to hit many more use cases which may have previously been out of reach. We switched to Dynamic Yield after Google Optimize was shut down.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We can do a lot more with Dynamic Yield with not just the testing side of things but the product recommendations, personalisation and the out of the box features.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield provides far more capability and ready-to-go templates for small-medium sized businesses, as well as decent API implementation for businesses who want to have a deeper integration. The ease of implementation and faster time-to-market is why we chose Dynamic Yield.
Chose Dynamic Yield
DY is easier to understand, has much better support than any of the other products i've used, and much easier to setup / integrate
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is leaps-and-bounds beyond other platforms when it comes to advanced capabilities. If all you want is to A/B tests two separate landing pages, it is probably overkill. If you want to optimize your customer's digital experience across audience-types, including …
Chose Dynamic Yield
I have used homegrown recommendation tools in the past. DY is more robust than anything I could build in house.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Chose Dynamic Yield
No contest between Convert and Optimizely - those are very decent A/B test programs but also standard. The biggest contender was A/B Tasty and we chose DY due to the ease of client vs server side implementation within the platform and robust analytics/product recommendation …
Chose Dynamic Yield
You get a lot more for the amount you pay compared with similar offerings. The out of the box templates also make it easier to get started especially if there is limited engineering resource. Like that it supports testing / personalization / recommender at the same time.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield has proven to surpass my experiences with both Optimizely and Braze in many ways - notably with contact time and support from the team, which has made a huge difference to the success of the tool for us. But also in my experience, I've found there to be a much …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield was the most robust, flexible, and intuitive option, as well as the best fit for our Single Page Application environment.
Chose Dynamic Yield
I have not used other products in the same space as DY.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We've used product recommendations through our website platform and while it was a couple of years ago and I can't remember exactly who we reviewed, we did compare Dynamic Yield to two or three other competitors before deciding to move forward with them.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Because you can use both personalization and A/B testing in one platform was the biggest reason for moving forward with Dynamic Yield. Also having a dedicated customer success manager was also a reason to move forward.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is easier to use and the customer support hands down is the best we have ever encountered. The out-of-the-box campaigns are greater and easier to use on Dynamic Yield.
Chose Dynamic Yield
DY can be linked to the product feed allowing use cases that are not possible on a simple testing solution.
Also, DY is simple to use for the marketing team, there is no need for technical knowledge to set most of the experiences. To conclude, DY can be used as a CDP with a …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic yield has everything you need out of the box where VWO pricing is tiered which can be frustrating. Dynamic yield is solid on personalization and more flexible with what can be done and achieved.
Features
Adobe TargetDynamic Yield
Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.6
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5% above category average
Dynamic Yield
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a/b experiment testing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Split URL testing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multivariate testing9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app testing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Test significance7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced code editor8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page surveys9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visitor recordings8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Preview mode9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Test duration calculator9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment scheduler9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Client-side tests9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Server-side tests8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.5
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0% below category average
Dynamic Yield
-
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Standard visitor segmentation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Dynamic Yield
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Heatmap tool9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form fill analysis9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test reporting9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Results segmentation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
CSV export9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe TargetDynamic Yield
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
6.3
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Usability
8.5
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8.6
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Availability
6.1
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Performance
8.0
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3.5
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In-Person Training
8.1
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Online Training
6.1
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Implementation Rating
7.2
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User Testimonials
Adobe TargetDynamic Yield
Likelihood to Recommend
We recommend this application because it allows us to segment and track the traffic of our domain under an analysis of their behavior, ranging from counting the number of clicks they make on a single element to the most complete action within our page in real time.
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It's ideal for testing continuous improvements in user experience - we're achieving good results from A/B testing and multivariate testing, and tracking the impact is very slick and compelling. We currently don't have any Dynamic Yield integrations set up for our app due to the complexities involved. We are also unable to track user behavior on platforms nested outside our domain (such as CTAs on our site that link to external booking engines).
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Pros
  • Because the software is established there is lots of online help available and most of the bugs have been worked out
  • Adobe has a vast supply of resources if your pockets are deep enough.
  • The dashboard is easy to follow and is getting more user-friendly. You no longer have to be an HTML wizard to implement changes.
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  • Product recommendations are easy to set up, and powerfully personalizable through either hands on refining or automated A/B testing
  • Customer insights are easy to set up and can be applied retroactively to data
  • A/B testing anything from different graphics to copy to page layouts is easy to set up and implement site wide
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Cons
  • There should be some more clarity around what makes a test significant. While this can be decided by the client themselves, some direction from the tool would be helpful.
  • Also, if there was an easier way to organize campaigns and search for them it would be helpful. Right now there is just a long list of campaigns and you have to rely on search to find a specific campaign. What if you don't know the name of the test?
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  • The impact (either positive or negative) of potentially overlapping campaigns, especially the UX personalization or custom code campaigns, may not be easily identifiable.
  • It would make more sense for the new deep-learning and machine learning (ML) driven strategies be made part of the standard offering, as opposed to positioning them as add-on subscription, given that many other completing services are baking in ML as part of their platform evolution.
  • The documentation on the API and custom code implementation can be fleshed out further.
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Likelihood to Renew
Once you get started with your testing program, you realize that it is necessary to continue. You must keep optimizing in order to remain a vital competitor in today's marketing world. Even if you're not using Test & Target or any other user experience testing software, you ought to be performing comparison tests on your own, simply by routing your audience to different experiences and quantifying the aggregate of the results.
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implementation took a long time but also, DY has really proven that they are transforming and adapting their platform to be more user friendly and the right technology choice for their brand or company
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Usability
The recent UI update is a complete mess. It is difficult to navigate and find features that previously existed. The reactiveness of the page depending on window size is also ridiculous and it is absurd that depending on how large your window is, entire columns of functions will disappear with no indication that they are missing. The usability of the tool has fallen off a cliff.
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Overall, the interface is not difficult to understand. Although to create campaigns or define strategies for recommendations, some study is required.
Also, some reports are hidden, you really need to know where to look in order to see them (e.g. strategies performance or email campaigns performance).
Also, there is a lack of context help that would improve a lot the usability, especially when you face a feature or a report for the first time.
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Reliability and Availability
i don't think we use the full functionalities of the tool, but to use the full functions, it's almost impossible (Too hard)
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Performance
The bottleneck is never the software program
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Support Rating
On several occasions, we have had the need to ask for help from the Adobe Target support team, and I must say that they have provided us with an excellent experience, as they take care of solving the problems quickly and with high precision
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Allison Schwartz, Customer Success Manager at Dynamic Yield has been nothing less than amazing and stellar! She really sets the standard for customer success and support. Their technical support is fast and reliable, and their educational resources are top of the line
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In-Person Training
The instructor that came to train us was awesome and this training was very useful. I would recommend it for anyone who is going to be using this software. I only mark it lower because it is an added expense to an already expensive product, and a lot of the training covered the "Target" portion of the software (which again, we didn't use)
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Online Training
The training was very easy to understand, however it would have been more useful to my development team than me. It was also primarily over-the-phone, which is never as easy to follow as in-person. We ended up scheduling and paying for an in-person training session to supplement the online/phone training because it wasn't helpful enough.
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Implementation Rating
Implement using a global mBox on the page so you can change any and everything over the traditional method. Traditional method is good if you do not have technical web dev resources, do not know Javascript/jQuery, or you have money to blow on mBox calls. Global deployment reduces mBox calls and allows you to touch many parts of the page easily. A lot more customizable
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Alternatives Considered
For us, the decision was very straightforward. We chose to invest in the Adobe stack and utilize tools that are developed to integrate together and complement each other. Ex: Adobe Target 'A4T' integration within Adobe Analytics. Optimizely appears to be a great tool, but for us aligning with the Adobe suite, ensuring that future product enhancements and tools would work well together was a very important key factor in our decision
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We selected Dynamic Yield because of Better Support & Partnership Experience, Superior Experimentation Capabilities, All-in-One Platform for Personalization, Testing, and Targeting Its better suited then other tools with A/B testing, better hyper personalization, AI - driven capabilities, low - code, better support
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Return on Investment
  • This is something we've been working to improve on, as far as how we're calculating and tracking this, but Target has had a substantial ROI on our business.
  • I will say specific to our efforts, we could have probably done similar work if not the same work using a different testing tool (Optimizely for example), but Target has been good for us.
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  • Dynamic Yield supports us in our CRO offering as our optimisation platform of choice - we are leveraging this tool heavily in the application of these services - allowing us an ongoing income stream.
  • Dynamic Yields adds value to our clients - we can confidently recommend DY's recommendations and AI as better than those that are offered "out of the box" within Shopify. As a Shopify Plus agency, leveraging this better technology is often a quick way in which we can show almost immediate value to new clients to improve their conversion rate and revenue per user.
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ScreenShots

Dynamic Yield Screenshots

Screenshot of The Dynamic Yield Dashboard, which offers a high-level overview of personalization campaigns, site performance, audiences, product updates, and more. With customers building and managing dozens, sometimes even hundreds of concurrent campaigns, the Dynamic Yield dashboard provides a snapshot of key information and surfaces items for potential optimization from campaigns that require action.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's customer segmentation engine, used to unify customer data across digital and offline touchpoints. Data can be onboarded from multiple sources to create one cohesive dataset from which to power experiences. Users can collect, store, categorize, and synchronize data from a CRM, ESP, DMP, APIs, or POS.Screenshot of The interface to create cross-touchpoint personalization campaigns and experiments at scale. Users can coordinate independent personalization experiences to deliver a cohesive, consistent customer journey from start-to-finish.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's Predictive Targeting capabilities, which provides machine-learning optimization. Dynamic Yield’s Predictive Targeting engine will continuously analyze and identify opportunities to serve the most relevant content for each audience segment.