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Adobe Target vs Amazon Textract comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Target
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Personalization Engines (1st)
Amazon Textract
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Adobe Target and Amazon Textract aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Adobe Target is designed for Personalization Engines and holds a mindshare of 12.7%, up 10.7% compared to last year.
Amazon Textract, on the other hand, focuses on Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), holds 2.3% mindshare, down 4.7% since last year.
Personalization Engines Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Target12.7%
SAS Customer Intelligence 3607.2%
BloomReach6.1%
Other74.0%
Personalization Engines
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Textract2.3%
ABBYY Vantage4.7%
UiPath IXP4.5%
Other88.5%
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
 

Featured Reviews

SW
Senior Analyst at Tetrapack
Personalized content has streamlined role-based experiences and saves time for rapid updates
In Experience Manager, we perform authoring tasks. For example, if I need to add a form to my website, I need to author it from the Web Experience Manager, and then that will be available. However, that requires a release and everything. With Adobe Target, we can create an Experience Fragment and export and import it into Adobe Target, and we can use that Experience Fragment as content on the website. This does not require a release, and we save a lot of time in that process. We have saved a lot of development time. Usually, if we have to push changes to production, we need to go through a release cycle. We need to push our changes to QA, stage, and then production. We have a sprint of twenty-one days. With Adobe Target, if we want to do a hotfix or something of that kind, we can do it immediately, test it immediately, and push it to production without a release cycle. This saves money, time, and resources.
SomdipRoy - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Skillnetinc
Have faced limitations due to integration complexity but have processed documents efficiently and reduced manual effort
Bedrock is basically a framework that can manage multiple large language models. Another useful tool is Amazon Textract which extracts text from documents. It helps with compliance because Amazon Textract itself doesn't store anything. When hundreds of documents are uploaded in an S3 bucket, the S3 bucket will store the documents, but Amazon Textract itself doesn't store anything. It pulls the contents of the documents and then passes them on to the next system, making it compliant. It helps in a great way by reducing the load on LLM and reducing the cost.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Additionally, Adobe Target offers features like multi-variation testing, automated personalization, and recommendations, which are particularly beneficial for e-commerce websites. Integration with other Adobe tools like AEM and Adobe Audience Manager further enhances its capabilities in audience segmentation and analytics for retargeting strategies."
"In two weeks, we achieved a six to seven percent increase in revenue."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automated personalization, AI, and machine learning algorithms."
"It allows for quick implementation of out-of-the-box features based on segments or geolocation, enhancing our ability to personalize customer experiences effectively."
"There's a full dashboard created for you to define what you want to personalize and how you want to display it. There is a categorization between the audience experiences and recommendations, where you can easily write your own criteria."
"I find Adobe Target very good for long optimization tests. After testing, it tells you which version is the winner and what improvements can be made. This gives me the confidence to provide a better customer experience by adopting the winning version of the page I'm testing."
"The most valuable features in Target are creating activities, rules, extensions, and workspaces for data analysis."
"The best features are the form-based and visual-based methods; the form-based method allows us to use languages like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create campaigns, while the visual-based method offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface to create campaigns."
"Amazon Textract is superior because it has features that allow you to use analytics or intelligent automation with the OCR; it will automatically identify key and value pairs, so you can use the data easily."
"With the help of Amazon Textract, we are reducing labor and manpower because with just one API call, we can get all the extracted information with its coordinates."
"The support is actually very good; I've worked with Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, but compared to the others, AWS support is excellent."
"In a project, I integrated Amazon Textract with Bedrock and passed the extracted document text to the LLM using Bedrock."
"Amazon Textract was easy to use."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, the campaigns I create in Adobe Target don't work for unknown reasons. When this happens, I must start over from scratch to fix it, even if I use the same setup. This issue can be frustrating because the activities should work but don't display content on the page when it loads."
"The solution's technical support team is an area with certain concerns where improvements are required."
"The product is very good, but recently they migrated from the old UI to the new UI. In that case, the documentation was not up to the mark."
"There are certain problems. Recommendations sometimes do not work when there are too many of them created. The Java script created inside the recommendation fails to load."
"There's room for improvement in Adobe Target, especially when simultaneously implementing the same activity across multiple websites. Currently, we can only run one activity per page, which can be limiting. Also, running various activities concurrently or executing near-real-time use cases can be complex and challenging with Adobe Target."
"Adobe Target can improve its reporting and dashboard creation."
"The solution currently lacks more personalization through the server side."
"The customer support team is very slow in responding to queries."
"Some easy integration with other systems could be improved."
"The product has not given correct results for me. It was not accurate, especially with handwritten items and documents with pencil marks, which Amazon Textract failed to identify correctly."
"Sometimes the tabular data does not process properly for complex tabular structures or complex tables."
"They should provide an offline solution because in many areas in India and outside, there are clients facing Internet issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adobe Target Premium is an advanced version, which is more expensive than the Adobe Standard."
"All Adobe products are a little bit on the higher side."
"There's no fixed price with Adobe; it depends on negotiations and business arrangements."
"The solution's pricing is reasonable."
"It has a high cost, so it is not a product that everyone can afford."
"The pricing of Adobe Target depends on the perspective. It can be deemed as fair from a business perspective but it might be expensive for individuals."
"The platform is quite expensive."
"The product is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
17%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise15
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Adobe Target?
The product is very good, but recently they migrated from the old UI to the new UI. In that case, the documentation was not up to the mark. It was difficult for me to get to know the new product UI...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Target?
Our company uses only Adobe products including Adobe Launch, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, and Adobe Experience Manager as a CMS platform and back-end platform. We have one authenticated portal wh...
What advice do you have for others considering Adobe Target?
I am working on the analytics side, so I am not aware of the web experience tool. However, because I am working on the analytics side, you can ask me about Launch, Adobe Target, and Analytics. We h...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Textract?
Organizations typically build the CI/CD pipeline. The main application could be hosted anywhere - it could be hosted on a machine, EC2, or it could be containerized. Some organizations do manual de...
What needs improvement with Amazon Textract?
Some easy integration with other systems could be improved.
What is your primary use case for Amazon Textract?
In an organization with an opening for a developer position, the organization receives hundreds of resumes. Instead of manually evaluating those resumes, Amazon Textract can be used to pull the con...
 

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