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Google Analytics 360 vs Heap vs Tealium Customer Data Hub comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Mindshare comparison

Web Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Analytics 36012.6%
Amplitude16.2%
Mixpanel10.7%
Other60.5%
Web Analytics
Web Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Heap7.2%
Amplitude16.2%
Google Analytics 36012.6%
Other64.0%
Web Analytics
Tag Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tealium Customer Data Hub23.7%
Qubit Opentag29.9%
Google Tag Manager24.1%
Other22.30000000000001%
Tag Management
 

Featured Reviews

Navcharan Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistent Seo Manager at RTDS
Have improved decision-making with effective reporting
Several positive aspects about the product stand out as advantages. Valuable insights can be gained from the unsampled reports available in the product. The cloud type needs to be specified whether it's public, private, or hybrid. The overall rating for Google Analytics 360 is 9 out of 10, where 10 represents the best product.
JF
Engagement Manager at TheMathCompany
Provides actionable user behavior insights and improves feature prioritization decisions
I didn't encounter many components that were annoying. One main area of frustration was finding data. When wanting to find data about clicks on a specific UI feature, element, or button, sometimes the objects were not named in a descriptive way. That was our problem on the implementation side, not Heap's. I also found that the analytics dashboards in Heap couldn't be customized as much as desired. I couldn't adjust the charts in the widgets or the settings on each widget to the level wanted in either data granularity or physical size of the widget on the dashboard page. Additional flexibility in dashboard building and widget building would be beneficial.
Gertrude  Maisha - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at UPS
Centralized data has unified profiles and now drives more accurate targeting and reporting
The great audience-building property makes Tealium Customer Data Hub ideal for real-time marketing initiatives. It also helps us to interact with our internal tracking system and our analytics suppliers. Tealium iQ makes tag management super easy, especially across multiple sites, and in my experience, it is one of the best features Tealium Customer Data Hub offers. I love how it stitches data from different sources in real time, making segmentation much more accurate. The built-in consent management platform helps a lot with staying compliant and managing user preferences centrally. All of these features are very great because they mainly help to unify and activate client data across CRM, billing, and marketing systems, specifically tag management, real-time data stitching, and the consent management platform. Our personalization and targeting have improved significantly with cleaner data, showing the positive impact of Tealium Customer Data Hub. Finance and business development now get better reporting from unified client profiles. Having one place to manage tags and privacy preferences has saved us both time and trouble.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is packed with many of the same reports you'll find in high-priced solutions, especially concerning data relating to real-time visitor tracking."
"It's got incredible depth, yet it’s free."
"Once you get the hang of GA, you can really use it to your advantage."
"Provides us with useful data and analytics about website traffic, giving us information about how to make our web pages better."
"I previously used WebTrends, but Google Analytics was more appealing because it was easy to setup, and it was available online for free."
"A solid choice for users who need simple, straightforward analytics, accessed through an easy to use interface."
"Since 2008, nearly every website I have worked on as an SEO and digital marketing professional has had Google Analytics deployed."
"We have increased our visits, views, and average stay on site time, which has led to an increase in revenues, and better targeting of our digital marketing campaigns."
"Discerning application and UX weak points, driving better user retention."
"After using Heap, I started understanding the complete user journey because of its great feature, the auto-capture, which captures everything from seeing the ad to closing the deal."
"You can track customer behavior with your project, such as how the customer envisions, navigates, uses CPA, and every touch point on the website. You can plan to optimize the phases and the customer behavior of the journey."
"Heap enables one to easily track how customers use one's applications on both the web and mobile."
"Heap has positively impacted my organization by giving our team visibility into how users interact with our application, allowing us to move from guessing to real-time information."
"The reporting has helped improve investor relations and let us quantify our growth and progress with ease."
"An immensely useful feature is the retention graphs with the ability to generate retention data for individual features."
"With its ability to easily define user events, one can easily detect how one can better optimize one's product to drive better retention and feature use."
"Tealium Customer Data Hub is the real deal, and my overall rating for this product is 9 out of 10."
"The vast amount of native connectors that Tealium has in its marketplace is valuable to us."
"It's a nice tool, and the data from Tealium is more appropriate compared to other tag management tools."
"The feature I like the most in Tealium Customer Data Hub is AudienceStream CDP. It's the main product with many features, allowing us to build complex and straightforward use cases directly. Tealium Customer Data Hub is an easy tool to use. The client and server sides are user-friendly, especially the server side, including Tealium CDP, EventStream, and AudienceStream. Marketers without technical knowledge can quickly build use cases in audiences and connect them to vendor channels. No technical knowledge is required for these users. The platform offers easy integration and implementation. While technical aspects exist for building more complex use cases, a marketer can directly develop and implement use cases quicklyin the platform."
"The tool helps us see the audience's journey."
"I really enjoy Tealium as a whole, including its tag management part and its CDP capability."
"The tool offers a wide variety of extension stacks."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, the statistics are not updated in real-time and it takes a little time. There are pages where it updates faster than others."
"Beginner users access the live help section a lot, because of how confusing it is, so it would not be bad if the function was located within the administration section."
"The technical support from Google has room for improvement."
"One area that Analytics falls short is in creating a report archive."
"Sometimes, the statistics are not updated in real-time and it takes a little time."
"An area where I would like to see improvement in Google Analytics is the auto-syncing of functions in Google Tag Manager into Goal tracking."
"Not the right product if you need detailed click stream analysis or integration with your firm's customer segmentation."
"There is a time lag of 4 hours for the tracking to get updated in the system."
"It's more expensive."
"The product could benefit from more advanced UI features."
"Their analytics could be more user-friendly."
"Based on my experience, there's some room for improvement. The application is a bit slow. Also, I must read through old documentation when I need to check for new features. It's not very user-friendly. Once you're in the application, it's easy because it has many features. But for first-time users, you have to go through all the documents, which can be challenging."
"I would rate Heap's scalability around 6 out of 10 because we are still not completely familiar with it."
"Their analytics could be more user-friendly."
"I also found that the analytics dashboards in Heap couldn't be customized as much as desired."
"You can do anything you need with Tealium and reach your goals. You may face difficulty finding talents using this solution as it is new to market."
"In the UI, some data is not visible. I think improvements related to bug fixing are needed in the tool."
"Sometimes, the extensions do not load properly before and after events."
"Tealium Customer Data Hub does not provide any reporting analytics."
"Tealium AudienceStream does not support concurrent development."
"It takes a long time to save and publish on the site, which can be very annoying in my experience with Tealium Customer Data Hub."
"The solution's documentation could be vastly improved to make life easier for people using it on a regular basis."
"I believe Tealium Customer Data Hub could be improved by providing a collaborative environment that allows users to work in the same profile simultaneously."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The installation cost is really low and does not require a team with a super performance to run."
"Heap's pricing can be heavy according to the usage and requirements for control billing."
"The solution is expensive."
"Tealium's pricing can be expensive compared to others, but it's worth the investment due to its extensive features and capabilities."
"The price is based on event volume."
"In Tealium, there is something called events, and the pricing is dependent on the event. You will be charged only if you have active data flowing it in and out."
"The tool's price is somewhere in the middle, meaning it is not too expensive and not too cheap either. The pricing model comes with flexibility."
"It's not as expensive as other tools."
"Tealium Customer Data Hub is an expensive solution, but it is not more expensive than Adobe."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Insurance Company
16%
Real Estate/Law Firm
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise13
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Google Analytics?
My general rating for Google Analytics 360 is nine out of ten, where ten is the best. This is the most important ques...
What is your primary use case for Google Analytics?
For Google Analytics 360, I can describe a few use cases and their purposes.
What advice do you have for others considering Google Analytics?
Several positive aspects about the product stand out as advantages. Valuable insights can be gained from the unsample...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Heap?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a smoother process, and my teammates helped me out because ...
What needs improvement with Heap?
I recommend making Heap stronger, more user-friendly, and integrating it with other apps such as Instagram, Facebook,...
What advice do you have for others considering Heap?
My advice to others looking into using Heap is to use auto-capture and complete capture a lot because these two featu...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tealium Customer Data Hub?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Tealium Customer Data Hub is that the cost is very cost-eff...
What needs improvement with Tealium Customer Data Hub?
I believe Tealium Customer Data Hub could be improved by providing a collaborative environment that allows users to w...
What is your primary use case for Tealium Customer Data Hub?
My main use case for Tealium Customer Data Hub has been to support our marketing and e-commerce efforts using Tealium...
 

Also Known As

Google Attribution 360
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Sample Customers

Air Show Buzz, AlfaStrakhovanie, Amari, Global Tech LED, Klarna, La Tienda, Nissan Motor Company, Rasmussen College, Shoes of Prey, Twiddy
Zendesk, Marketo, Ernst & Young, Salesforce
L.L. Bean, Tripping.com, Charter Communications, Lincoln Financial Group, Citrix, Luxottica, Electronic Arts, HARMAN International, ALM Media, American Eagle, Ancestry.com, Brand New Day
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