Constellation ShortList™ Marketing Analytics Solutions

About This Constellation ShortList™

The call for the chief marketing officer to serve as the growth driver and orchestrator for the modern enterprise has amplified the need for marketing analytics tools to quickly evolve from campaign performance trackers into more robust business intelligence and decisioning tools. But this shift has not excused marketing teams from delivering insights and measures proving the value and impact of campaigns and engagements. This has pushed modern marketing analytics solutions to deliver analytics on everything from budget, performance and optimization while also delivering robust intelligence on customers, resources, and opportunities.

Legacy functions of marketing analytics solutions—including the ability to synthesize and normalize data from a multitude of internal and external channels— continues to be core to consideration. Platforms must also deliver powerful BI functionality that empowers marketing to embrace a culture of data-led decisioning. As marketing engagement has become more predictive and data more prescriptive, marketing analytics tools must also follow suit to give marketing a clear blueprint and roadmap for growth acceleration and profit optimization.

Top of mind for many vendors in the space is applying generativeAI features and capabilities to fundamentally shift how marketers interact, interrogate and ingest data. AI is also being applied to data normalization and cleansing to ensure accuracy in analytics and ready access across multiple data sources. The ability to interrogate customer and campaign data in a self-service, visually appealing, easy-to-explore interface has become table steaks for any marketing analytics solution. AI that helps ingest and manage data and automate connector updates but also surfaces intelligent insights for rapid decision-making is a requirement. This list includes solutions that are powerful for marketing data scientists, yet are ready for non-technical marketers to stand up and operate.

Threshold Criteria

Constellation considers the following criteria for these offerings:

• Ease of use and setup for nontechnical users with functional options for developers and analysts 
• Ability to ingest and report on marketing and advertising data across all online and offline interactions and campaigns 
• Robust marketing attribution, forecasting and predictive analytics capabilities 
• Customizable role-based dashboards 
• Easy-to-create (and share) visualizations across a wide range of chart and graph types 
• Integration with sales force automation, marketing automation, advertising platforms and other customer data sources for consolidated customer engagement visibility 
• Extensibility through ecosystem of third-party integration apps 
• Facilitate data collaboration and interrogation with other marketers and cross-functional teams 
• Triggered workflows and automated actions to turn intelligence into optimization actions 
• Security, authentication tools, role-based access, data governance and lineage tracking 
• Intelligent models built from user-defined core business metrics 
• Anywhere accessibility across desktop and mobile 
• AI and ML to assist with data ingestion, analysis and decision intelligence 
• Generative AI capabilities generally available or on a near-term road map to allow marketers to construct simple requests or ask new questions of data sets 
• Product vision and roadmap 
• Post-sale support and community

 

Constellation evaluates over 40 solutions categorized in this market. This Constellation ShortListis determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share and internal research.

• ADOBE ANALYTICS
• AMPLITUDE ANALYTICS
• DOMO FOR MARKETING
• HEAP
• LOOKER FROM GOOGLE
• MICROSOFT POWER BI
• PLANFUL FOR MARKETING
• SALESFORCE
• SAS CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE 360
• SISENSE