Adobe Real-Time CDP

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Customer Data Platform
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Build customer profiles that power real-time experiences.

How to Replace Adobe Real-Time CDP

Overview

Adobe Real-Time CDP is a customer data platform built on Adobe Experience Platform that unifies cross-channel data into real-time customer and account profiles. It enables marketers to create high-value audience segments for real-time B2C and B2B use cases without relying on third-party cookies. The platform provides tools for unified profile management, audience activation, data governance, and cookieless marketing.

Features

33 features across 14 categories

AI(1)

AI AssistantAI

Easy-to-use conversational AI Assistant to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, quickly access product information, troubleshoot issues, and learn new concepts

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Analytics(2)

Cross-Device Understanding

Understand customers across their devices to improve engagement

Propensity ScoringAI

Predict the likelihood of conversion with propensity scoring

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Audience Management(5)

Audience AgentAI

Easily create actionable audiences with Audience Agent and proactive AI-powered insights to keep campaigns on target and relevant

Centralized Audience Management

Manage audiences for your entire business centrally, even those built in other applications

Look-Alike AudiencesAI

Find new customers and respond to changing behaviors with look-alike audiences

Real-Time Audience Activation

Activate B2C and B2B audiences in real time on Adobe and non-Adobe marketing applications

Real-Time Segmentation

Instant grouping of users based on live data including current behavior, recent actions, or up-to-date attributes

Automation(3)

Customer Journey Orchestration

Orchestrate customer journeys on an easy-to-use canvas

Data Engineering AgentAI

Automate data onboarding and SQL prep with Data Engineering Agent

Prebuilt Workflows

Boost efficiency with prebuilt workflows that consider how data sources are used to create audience groups before activating them

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Channel Management(1)

Multi-Channel Reach

Brands and publishers work together to reach relevant audiences across channels including connected TV, commerce media, walled gardens, digital audio, and DSPs

Collaboration(2)

Collaboration-Based Audience Activation

Real-Time CDP Collaboration enables joint activation to reach prospects and customers across channels while prioritizing privacy

Joint Audience Analysis

Real-Time CDP Collaboration simplifies how organizations can drive joint audience analysis with collaboration partners

Also in: Notion, Airtable, Obsidian

Data Governance(7)

Consent Collection

Transparent tools for consent collection to manage customer data responsibly

Consumer Data Request Management

Manage consumer data requests with both an API and user-friendly interface

Data Labeling

Data labeling tools for enterprise data governance

Data Source and Policy Visibility

View data sources and policies before activating audiences

Policy Creation and Enforcement

Policy creation and data usage enforcement to ensure compliance

Privacy-Centric Data Collaboration

Maximize the value of first-party audiences through secure and privacy-centric data collaboration and expanded partnerships with trusted advertisers and publishers

Sensitive Data Protection

Prevent users from activating sensitive data

Data Integration(4)

Data Collection and Distribution

Real-Time CDP Connections streamlines how data is collected and distributed to Adobe Experience Platform and other systems and tools

Federated Audience Augmentation

Augment audiences with profiles federated from AWS Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake

Real-Time Data Streaming

Stream data for real-time insights and faster time to market

Third-Party Data Integration

Prospect new audiences from third-party data partners backed by durable identifiers that don't rely on third-party cookies

Data Management(2)

Real-Time Profile Enrichment

Enrich customer profiles and audiences in real time with attributes from data partners that help to fuel personalization

Unified Profiles

Unify and normalize known and pseudonymous customer data across all online and offline sources to create real-time, actionable B2B and B2C customer profiles

Guides & Templates(1)

Use-Case Playbooks

Use partner data, use-case playbooks, and an AI Assistant to drive better audience activation

Integrations(2)

Pre-Built Advertising Integrations

Quickly reach your audience with pre-built, advertising-focused integrations using durable identifiers

Third-Party Platform Connections

Connect data to systems and tools such as Facebook and Google while improving site performance

Marketing Automation(1)

Cross-Channel Campaign Activation

Strengthen cross-channel campaigns by activating both known and unknown data

Personalization(1)

Targeted Customer Experiences

Deliver more targeted customer experiences and in-the-moment personalization

Reporting(1)

Campaign Performance ReportingPremium

View campaign performance and reporting in a single environment to inform advertising and co-marketing efforts (Coming soon)

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Adobe Real-Time CDP. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Adobe Real-Time CDP alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 33 features.

Buy Adobe Real-Time CDP

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$24,000
Maintenance$360/mo
3-year total$36,960
Dev time~2 months

Buying Adobe Real-Time CDP saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 33 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

10 known integrations

Adobe Customer Journey AnalyticsAdobe Experience PlatformAdobe Journey OptimizerAWS RedshiftDatabricksFacebookGoogleGoogle BigQueryMicrosoft Azure Synapse AnalyticsSnowflake