What is Segment?
Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps companies harness first-party customer data. Our platform democratizes access to reliable data for all teams and offers a complete toolkit to standardize data collection, unify user records, and route customer data into any system where it’s needed. Segment provides the customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first. Using Segment, companies can collect, unify and connect their first-party to over 200 marketing, analytics and data warehouse tools.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
92 Plan to Renew
78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Segment?
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Respectful
- Fair
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
CRM Integration
Omnichannel Integration
Real Time Capabilities
Data Aggregation
Data Security
Behavioral Triggers
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Data Enrichment
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Segment Reviews
Douglas C.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
Instrumental in driving real transformation.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Segment from other similar products?
Segment stays true to the core purpose of a CDP—collecting, unifying, and transmitting data—without conflating it with engagement marketing or analytics functions, which are more suited for DXP solutions. This focus makes it a pureplay CDP, helping avoid confusion and ensuring its role is clearly defined within a data strategy.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ease of use and the ability to govern and collaborate transparently around a common source of truth from a data perspective. It unites product, engineering, and marketing teams effectively, allowing them to work toward shared goals with reliable, well-structured data.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be hard to contextualize the value vs. cost for those who are unfamiliar with CDPs or are new to the concept. However, Segment’s team does an excellent job of simplifying and reinforcing the true value of a CDP on a case-by-case basis, especially given the market confusion around the term.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Ensure you have a clear understanding of the outcomes you want to achieve and strong management over the roadmap and incremental capabilities needed. It's important to have dedicated ownership or a team to govern the platform, managing the diverse requirements of stakeholders and translating those into a cohesive and governed configuration.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Faraz A.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Sep 2024
Good product but little pricey.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Segment from other similar products?
The point that differentiates Segment from other similar products is that Segment makes it easy for marketers to create workflows for customer experiences, while other products focuses on strong data infrastructure and real-time data delivery to different platforms.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Segment is that it is easy to install and it consistently provides data and provides flexible user analytics.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I believe that the rapidly rising price rate of the product is what I dislike about the product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It can focus on providing better customer support services and try to improve data security.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Gouthami K.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2024
Excellent tool to handle customer data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Segment from other similar products?
With its advanced capabilities in analytics and ease of integration, Segment stands out from other competitors in the market, so it helps businesses gain more insights about customer data easily.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Segment is its ease of integration because it makes managing data across different platforms simple.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While there are no major dislikes, but what I dislike a little about it is its learning curve. For people who are new to this platform, it might take some time to understand it.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend exploring its features to understand whether its meeting your business needs and goals.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing