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Piano Activation

Score8.5 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Piano Activation?

Piano Composer, from Piano Software in New York, allows users to design, test, deploy, and manage audience experiences based on scenarios, rules, triggers, and conditions, all without IT. It presents out of the box loyalty and engagement solutions, and allows users to engage customer segments on the content they find most interesting and valuable - based on page attributes, metadata, or URL conditions.

Piano Composer is a great all-rounder for segmenting users and driving desired behaviour

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a digital and print news publisher. We use Piano Composer for our subscription flows. For example, to create and manage dynamic paywalls, dynamic subscriptions and landing pages. We also use Piano Composer's segmentation capabilities and range of algorithms to improve our targeting. This helps us to create the best experience we can for users, while also ensuring we optimise our revenue from advertising and subscriptions so we can continue to provide high quality journalism.

Pros

  • Very easy to use interface
  • Powerful algorithms to improve targeting
  • Great engagement with clients about improvements and future roadmaps

Cons

  • Acquires companies often and integration of these sometimes cause bugs and outages
  • Can be slow to load sometimes
  • Any custom work you need done by their developers takes far too long

Return on Investment

  • Increased digital subscriptions substantially
  • Enables quick and easy testing, which saves lots of time
  • Is quite expensive as a tool overall, so you need to balance the benefits to the number of users you have

Alternatives Considered

Optimizely Web Experimentation