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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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • 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
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • 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.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • 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
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Lead Forensics
Adobe Analytics
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Hourly updates
Data Retention
12 months
3 months
25 months by default
84 months
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
by means of an API
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Via CSV or API
by means of an API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Via e-mail or SMS
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Flexible scheduled reporting
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
See Cohort analysis
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
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
also called triggers
Up to 1.000 success events
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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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