TrustRadius Insights for Adobe Target are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Out-of-the-box options: Users have appreciated the out-of-the-box testing options, making it quick to set up tests.
Integration with Adobe Analytics: Reviewers have found the integration with Adobe Analytics to be a significant advantage for quicker data access and robust customer reports.
Robust targeting capabilities: Several users have highlighted the application's robust targeting capabilities, including powerful segmentation features and profile script functions for complex tests.
Seamless integration with Adobe Cloud: The seamless integration with Adobe Cloud was cited as a valuable feature by users, allowing leverage of cloud data for testing purposes.
User-friendly interface: The user-friendly interface has been praised for optimizing website performance efficiently.
We do A/B tests through it. Website A/B tests, and mobile app A/B tests. So experimentation.
Pros
So the distribution of all the experiments is really good. And also the way it facilitates all the data so that you can analyze it better in Adobe Analytics. It's really good.
Cons
So all of the part where it uses AI, it becomes more of a black box, so it loses the explainability of why stuff is working and that makes it harder to iterate on other tests, other experiments. If you don't know why it works, then how are you going to do it better next time?
Likelihood to Recommend
So A/B testing for sure. Less well suited, I would imagine experimentation, but on an offline angle to it that it wouldn't necessarily work that well. But online experiments for sure it does work.
My team uses Adobe Target for tagging and experimentation for secure login and the mobile app. We have many use cases across that are used to track and test user experiences for our product teams. We provide tagging strategy for application developers to track components within pages. We complete ~20+ tagging and experiments per month.
Pros
A/B testing
Click tracking and component tagging
Integration with other Adobe tools
Cons
Manage timeouts
Latency issues
Exeperiments across SDK & nonweb SDK pages
Likelihood to Recommend
Target is great for basic experimentation using A/B testing. Most of our stakeholders use Target for enhancements to CX. The data capture allows for insights into experimentation.
Our organization mainly uses target for personalizing landing pages based on campaigns and customer metrics. In addition, we use it heavily for A/B testing.
Pros
A/B Testing
Personalize content
Dynamic rendering of content based on user metrics
Cons
Improved compatibility for dev based testing on local servers not publicly hosted
Likelihood to Recommend
Extremely useful for A/B testing content on pages. Provides good insight into performance and allows advanced segmentation to dive further into data.
We use it to drive CRO discipline and do AB testings. Its very difficult to implement in different environments, we couldn't have the right support, and we also have to pay for that too (when we're paying for the tool). Also its not very friendly with other analitycs tools.
Pros
Personalization
Experiments view
Cons
Experiment results view (calculator)
Design features (to edit when you're not a dev)
Implementation with another analitycs tools (not with AA, for ex: GA4)
Implementation in environments (especially on app)
Likelihood to Recommend
In this special case, we migrated to Target when Google Optimize deprecated. It was a big change, tho Optimize was "more friendly to use" in terms of ux and implementation.
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Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)
We use AT to generate experiences to our users or clients, we create different s experiments for CRO extrategy. It's a great product, have a nice features but it's very difficult to implement the tool on the environments (like websites or apps). And another pain point is that the support to implement this tool have a additional cost.
Pros
Many Features
IA complements
Great audiences
Cons
Difficult to implement
UI is not easy to understand
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need to create experiments like ab testings or personalizations, Adobe Target is a really good tool for that.
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Verified User
Project Manager in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees)
Adobe Target is important for our organization and theoretically enables us to more easily run A/B tests and carry out personalization on a number of our sites. Target also enables us to run these tests and personalizations with less, if any, developer support, allowing us to quickly iterate on new ideas
Pros
Enables A/B testing through a visual editor
Integrate well with Adobe analytics for further analysis
Makes it easy to reuse certain experiences
Cons
New UI is extremely buggy
New UI has reduced functionality compared to the old UI with certain features completely missing
Customer support for Target is abysmal and takes extended periods of time to get any satisfactory support
Likelihood to Recommend
When it works, Adobe Target is effective in carrying out A/B tests and personalized experiences across a wide variety of sites and even mobile apps. Its also relatively easy to designate audiences and segment tests /personalized experiences to run only for specific user/audiences and in specific portions of a site.
I use Adobe Target for personalization and AB testing We deliver personalized content trough target based on the profile of the costumer and the audience, we work with Adobe Target and Adobe Analytics to deliver this experiences.
Pros
AB Testing
Personalized Banners
Change colors of landing pages
Cons
More use cases for WebSite that doesn't have e-commerce.
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Targetallows companies to start having personalization use cases based on data, it is very friendly to use and very predictive to generate this cases.
Adobe Target has been really beneficial as it helps one visually create and manage A/B tests and rules-based targeting activities. It offers a simplified implementation strategy for our digital platforms and is effective as it manages all communication, offers automated personalization and provides recommendations about services. It helps to share data and results with ease.
Pros
Data results
Collaboration
Improved conversion rates
Tracking responses
Cons
Refined search
Understanding Platform
Reporting
Likelihood to Recommend
We had used Adobe Target, for an event where we were inviting clients for a tax seminar. Adobe Target helped us understand the target audience by reviewing A/B test and seeing the number of people who are actually interested in attending the event and any pre-questions before the event. It helped us segregate the groups according to the questions that were asked.
We use Adobe Target for pre-authenticated Site AB testing and personalization.
Pros
VEC is easy to use.
Form-based editor offers additional customization for developers.
A4T allows users to use Analytics reporting for their Target tests.
Cons
Difficult to get feature enhancement requests to be prioritized.
Adobe support is fragmented across TAMs, Admin Console support cases, and engineering and consultants.
There are too many Adobe Target service maintenance/outage notifications that don't affect us.
When specific IDs do not persist, Adobe Target profile attributes will also not continue, which will affect audience targeting in Prod.
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe Target is an excellent platform for AB testing; Marketers can easily use the VEC to make simple content changes. However, if formatting changes are involved, such as Adobe Target not having a default template, marketers must work with developers to leverage the form-based editor. Adobe's personalization capabilities through Auto Target are exciting, but there is ambiguity about how custom attributes are weighed in Adobe's ML model.
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Verified User
Professional in Product Management (10,001+ employees)
Use it to expand recommendations and introduce personalization. Ability to test use cases to increase conversions and revenue. Segmenting our visitor base has allowed us to get to a more granular level and understand pain points and understand what causes friction for our end users. We have been able to scale quicker and expand the footprint.
Pros
Test any container on page
Provide out of the box options
Work with analytics to get data quicker
Cons
Lack of avenue to customer data CDP
Lack of real test environment
Likelihood to Recommend
I can tailor my use case to specific customer attributes and situations and be able to get timely feedback on how the experience was either positive or an area for improvement.