Most of the problems relies on data quality, data activation and most of them on internal (in-house) and local regulations. There exist some force limitation form he product too to adapt it to the technology architecture.
Pros
Expose and activate data
Merge identities
Collect Web data
Cons
Household model to avoid merged profiles by primary keys
Bugs and connection error messages
High maintenance issues and incidents
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited For FSI and 100% digital business models. Guarantee and facilitate the identity relation individually.
Less Appropiate Even when you have a B2B tier there's is a lot to enhance in this to manage a sales management pipeline. It would be perceived as a CRM evolution/ substitution.
We use RTCDP to build audiences for paid media, on-site personalization, and email campaigns through AJO. Our use cases span across all banking products but are rooted in improving our personalization efforts.
Pros
Improve time to market
Data refresh
Improve operational efficiency
Cons
Lookalike modelling does not work all the time
Customer AI does not combine attribute & event data
Likelihood to Recommend
Improving the accuracy of of our paid media audiences and can improve the overall match rate compared to our previous DMP solution.
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Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)
I work for Dick's Sporting Goods and we use RTCDP to collect data, create audiences and run journeys. Our main problem with it though is that we have a contract for AEP but are unable to use AJO as an esp due to a contract with another vendor. We wont be able to unlock the full capabilities until this contract ends
Pros
Organizes data
gives insight into profiles
connects well with other Adobe tools
Cons
the UI is full of bugs
Limits on number of audiences, profiles etc..
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great as a CDP when your org is only using Adobe tools but due to the fact that we have other vendors, it is unable to work fully as expected.
Adobe RTCDP is our enterprise customer Data platform adapted as part of strategic initiative to move to Adobe suite of products for marketing and experience automation. It works well along with AEP, AJO and CJA
Pros
Near Real-time segmentation and audience qualitifcation
Integration with rest of AEP products
Activation is easy
Cons
Audience manager functionality should be rolled into this product
Activation is limited to specific channel and use cases
Adobe Target integration need some work
Likelihood to Recommend
It is still very powerful CDP, specifically its functionality of real-time segmentation and activation
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Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We use Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform for a range of customer acquisition, engagement and retention use-case for financial services businesses across multiple geographies. Our most critical use-case is personalisation of customer experience across digital touch points.
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
Cons
UI too slow on experience event schemas that have data labels
Ability to handle shared device scenarios
Reporting interface has lot of room for improvement
Likelihood to Recommend
CDP enables most digital marketing use-case at a high scale, including personalization, paid media retargeting and marketing automation. CDP is not suited for handling complex curation on data, especially when users have arrays of product info, the segmentation is quite complicated. Also the smaller campaigns where the data sources simply contain a flat file list of email addresses,
We use Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform to activate personalization at scale use cases by streamlining data collection and then activating on the relevant audiences that we create from the underlying data. It serves as the brain behind our activation engine. We use it to learn from the performance of the data as well.
Pros
Structured data in a single format
Easy to segment
Native connectors are present
Cons
Seem less way to access underlying data by leveraging AI for analysis
More native connectors to 3rd party platforms
Agentic workflow to support efficiency when segmenting relevant audiences
Likelihood to Recommend
- It is well suited for when customers have their data structured in a data lake already where they can readily access it. - This is suited for those customers who are looking for a way to better understand their customers and then communicating with them to track their journey throughout.
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Consultant in Customer Service (5001-10,000 employees)
We use Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform to stitch online customer data to customer data from offline platforms, ERP systems, CRM and Sales cloud platforms. The use cases are for Marketing and Communications teams and the problems it addresses is stitching website data (Adobe Analytics) to data from all the other platforms . We are also using CDP profiles for AJO use cases.
Pros
Identity Graph : Keeping events tied to the original IDs, while having separate profile stores that have merged data
Having Edge Profiles separate from Hub Profiles for faster segmentation
Experience event schemas tied to Profile schemas
Cons
Options for De-linking Identities from the graph
categorize namespaces that have unique values and namespaces that have shared values for different profiling in the Identity Graph
Less Deterministic matching and more Algorithm based matching