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Rating
5/5
Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
GA importer included
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Via CSV or API
As CSV or via API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Adobe uses tracking cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly, monthly
Flexible scheduled reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Line up goals for simple funnel
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
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