SAP Customer Data Solutions vs. SessionM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Customer Data Solutions
Score 8.2 out of 10
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The SAP Customer Data Cloud, based on Gigya (acquired by SAP in 2017) is a product suite that allows users to identify consumers, business customers, or partners across devices and channels to drive registrations and engagement; manage access, permission, and consent; and transform data into unified customer profiles.N/A
SessionM
Score 10.0 out of 10
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SessionM is a customer engagement platform that combines customer data management, loyalty program and offer management, and cross-channel campaign management (SMS, email, push, and in-app messages).N/A
Pricing
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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
SAP Customer Data Solutions
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP CUstomer Data Solutions is far superior to ASAP FOODZ in all aspects. Customer support, reliability, staff engagement, customer satisfaction, etc are all better. Customer Data Solutions is hands down better than any other data solutions software that we've used. I highly …
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There is a dedicated team for SAP setup that helps in providing specialized or customized services to the user. The platform's accessibility lets us obtain reports and information in real time so we reach clients at the proper moment by optimizing delivery time appealed to us …
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SAP has been the best partner I have worked with during my career. The platform offers highly valuable features for crafting and structuring data presentations, enabling informed decision-making by management.
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They are simply the best team you could hope to have in your back pocket. Once you get the gist of it you can set up almost anything you can think of.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
We carefully looked at different solutions to manage customer data and ultimately chose SAP Customer Data Solutions. What sets it apart is its complete management of customer data, robust analytics, and effortless integration with marketing tools. SAP's user-friendly interface …
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SAP customer data platform is market leader in data unification. Integration with multiple data channels with real time customer data helped in decision making process.
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Resources and specialized IT personnel is needed for the effective administration and deployment of Informatica Customer 360. This resource-intensive for smaller organizations. Although Informatica has the ability to integrate, the process of setting up and establishing these …
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SAP Customer Data Solutions differs from many of his competitors since it's the only solution which provides an end-to-end approach that starts directly from the website integration (which is not demanded to whoever manages your website but it's integrated directly), and …
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This is an industry leading tool which also has matured over the period of time and is better suited for large corporations and mission critical applications.
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I have not used a different App
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A better integration with out database was the key factor that led our decision to move forward with this tool. Keeping in mind that it was more costly, we knew that it would be a safe bet, would bring a more data-driven culture to our team, the capacity to create laser focused …
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP is bigger and better in all the ways from its competitors. However, when costing is a concern from a client, then they tend to use a budget friendly solution like Hubspot or Salesforce.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
It was the best in the market and many organization's were using this when we looked for the options available in the market. It has best customer ratings and good brand value.
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Ultimately, we chose SAP Customer Data Solutions for several key reasons:
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Better customer service at SAP. No concerns whatsoever with regards to safety and security of customer data. Timely updation of systems which ensures smooth functioning of the platform with very little down time. Cost of implementation and licensing is something which is a …
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For better customer support.
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We have used Gigya for a long time. I didn't participate in the selection process.
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OAuth and Octa were two possible alternatives. We decided on CDC mainly for the good integration with other SAP products.
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
SAP CDC is better for enterprises without too many developers. Also, cover OOB Consent and Identity together
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
The products I evaluated integrate directly and natively with SAP Customer Data Cloud
Chose SAP Customer Data Solutions
There's no other product I tried as ready to use as SAP CDC. It doesn't offer only endpoints or API to manage authentication but a full suite of functionalities almost ready to be integrated with a few customizations
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It is easily manageable for those using SAP for other ERP processes as well.
SessionM
Chose SessionM
SessionM was light years ahead of Fishbowl, in the data science tendency assumptions that are built into the system, plus they don't offer an app for your brand to use. You'd have to employ a 3rd vendor to manage that. It's also important to note that SessionM sees ALL guests …
Features
SAP Customer Data SolutionsSessionM
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Customer Data Solutions
7.8
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6% below category average
SessionM
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Tag library7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag variable mapping7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Page load times8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
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SAP Customer Data Solutions
7.9
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4% below category average
SessionM
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Standard visitor segmentation7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Management
Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Customer Data Solutions
7.9
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7% below category average
SessionM
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Account Scoring7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Governance8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Connectors7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enhancement7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Visibility7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Data7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Identity Resolution8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP Customer Data SolutionsSessionM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
9.5
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Usability
9.1
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Availability
8.9
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Performance
7.3
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Support Rating
9.1
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In-Person Training
9.1
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
7.3
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Configurability
9.1
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Ease of integration
9.1
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Product Scalability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
4.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It's best suited for business business to turn digital interaction in to richer and high value and experience that reach across computing platform also it offers a holistic and integrated approach to managing customer data and enhancing and personalized experience.it also draw actionable insights.because it offers wide range of products . perfect customer insight data solutions
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SessionM is ideal for enterprise restaurants, brands, and organizations to build and drive loyal behaviors via technology platforms. They've built their system via robust APIs integrations, but are now diving into a white label app system that allows smaller brands (100 units+) to utilize their incredible technology in their own brand, as opposed to just bigger players. They're the best at what they do.
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Pros
  • The CIAM solution offers a single point of collections for registered users, streamlined on all websites configured
  • Social access is made easy since it's handled directly by the CIAM and supports more than 50 social networks
  • GDPR and similar laws are handled out-of-the-box
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  • Using data science to determine guest tendencies and actions: their system is incredibly smart and tracks historical actions to guess/estimate future actions, and creating programs to influence those actions.
  • Integrated communication platforms to speak to all of our guests within various tactics—email, push notifications, text messages, in-app messages, etc.
  • Loyalty management & CRM: creating and managing a program that runs consistently across the system.
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Cons
  • I find the interface a bit complex and challenging to navigate. I remember having difficultly grasping it completely especially when I was new to the system. Simplifying the user experience would make it more accessible for everyone, making tasks quicker and more intuitive.
  • integrating it seamlessly with other software and platforms could enhance its functionality. I would really really love an integration between BenchMark email marketing tool.
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  • Some improvement could be made on their integrations process with all platforms (olo, monkey media, etc.).
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Likelihood to Renew
We use SAP CDC since it was Gigya and not a SAP solution. In these years, we only lost one customer, all others are happy with this solution and how we integrate it.
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Usability
We mostly work with the API which is of very good quality and is well documented.However, some of our success is also due to having very talented developers on staff, and also understanding advanced gamification design. The tool supports a talented team! It won't actually do everything for you automatically.
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Reliability and Availability
The platform pulls data from multiple sources, cleaning, and restructuring it allowing us to expand our growth opportunities by providing highly tailored suggestions on each page for our visitors which made it tremendously simple for us to provide rich and customized experiences to our visitors in the best way possible.
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Performance
There are some latency issues. The 24 hour caching problem mentioned earlier is a problem. Sometimes the Gigya system makes two calls instead of a single call if we go directly to the social platform. For this reason, it's sometimes more efficient to go direct rather than use Gigya.
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Support Rating
We have had multiple instances of help from Gigya to get our custom implementation working, including detailed technical assistance to a third party. We have found Gigya to be thorough and timely in their responses to all queries, which are consistently excellent.
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In-Person Training
because it was made directly in the company
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Online Training
They trained me in a train the trainer model. I then trained the internal team. Total training was about two hours, with an additional two hours for system setup.
Training was maybe a little thin, but the system was fairly easy to learn and this wasn't really a problem.
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Implementation Rating
There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, and perhaps we were unclear on some of our requirements. Once they figured out what we wanted though, things went pretty smoothly. Just some minor hiccups in the beginning
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Alternatives Considered
SAP CUstomer Data Solutions is far superior to ASAP FOODZ in all aspects. Customer support, reliability, staff engagement, customer satisfaction, etc are all better. Customer Data Solutions is hands down better than any other data solutions software that we've used. I highly recommend customer data solutions to anyone that may be considering it.
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SessionM was light years ahead of Fishbowl, in the data science tendency assumptions that are built into the system, plus they don't offer an app for your brand to use. You'd have to employ a 3rd vendor to manage that. It's also important to note that SessionM sees ALL guests and POS content in the system, not just loyalty identified transactions.
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Scalability
because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
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Return on Investment
  • We've been able to curate highly targeted marketing campaigns that resonate with our audience and have improved customer engagement and conversion rates.
  • Using insights from the software, we refined our marketing plans and campaigns for better impact.
  • Our marketing strategies were enhanced through our seamless integration with other marketing tools and platforms, promoting efficiency and accuracy in our marketing initiatives.
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  • Our work with SessionM has been so incredibly impactful to our brand loyal guests, and the value they bring to our brand. For example, our loyal guests are worth $100+ more than our non-loyalty guests.
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ScreenShots

SAP Customer Data Solutions Screenshots

Screenshot of Customer Login in SAP Enterprise Consent and Preference ManagementScreenshot of User Identities report dashboardScreenshot of Search by Custom Fields windowScreenshot of Customer Data DataflowScreenshot of Account InformationScreenshot of SAP Customer Data Platform