Overview
What is Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)?
Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) was a tool used by marketers to manage tags, and for collecting and distributing data across digital marketing systems. Adobe DTM is a legacy, and it will not receive feature updates. Adobe invites users to…
Adobe DTM is a flexible, customized, secure web analytics solution, but with a learning curve
Easy to Use, Great Version Control
Does what it says on the Tin!
Adobe Dynamic Tag Management Solutions
Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (5)10.0100%
- Ease of writing custom tags (5)10.0100%
- Tag variable mapping (5)10.0100%
- Rules-driven tag execution (5)9.090%
Pricing
What is Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)?
Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) was a tool used by marketers to manage tags, and for collecting and distributing data across digital marketing systems. Adobe DTM is a legacy, and it will not receive feature updates. Adobe invites users to upgrade to Launch on the Adobe Experience Platform.
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Features
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 10Role-based user permissions(5) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Tag Management
Features related to tag management
- 9Tag library(4) Ratings
The software natively supports a variety of vendors, including the most important or common ones such as Google and Adobe.
- 10Tag variable mapping(5) Ratings
The software allows users to manipulate data and map it to known variables in the tag without custom development.
- 10Ease of writing custom tags(5) Ratings
The software allows users to create and implement custom tags when a certain tag is not among the available templates.
- 9Rules-driven tag execution(5) Ratings
The software allows for flexible tag firing based on multi-part load rules, as well as tag sequencing and dependencies.
- 10Tag performance monitoring(4) Ratings
The software tracks things like tag load time, blocking tags, uptime / response time, and tag killing, and sends alerts.
- 10Page load times(5) Ratings
The tag management software has helped improve page load speeds.
- 10Mobile app tagging(4) Ratings
The software can manage tags for mobile apps as well as websites.
- 7.1Library of JavaScript extensions(2) Ratings
The software offers a library of pre-built JavaScript functions for use with tags and load rules for data manipulation, UI functionality or data collection.
Data Management & Integrity
Features related to data management and integrity
- 10Event tracking(4) Ratings
The software tracks events such as form abandonment, video plays, downloads, parallax scrolling, and infinite scroll.
- 10Mobile event tracking(4) Ratings
The software tracks mobile-specific interactions, such as zoom, rotate, and dialing phone numbers.
- 7Data distribution management(3) Ratings
The software manages the collection and distribution of data among various technologies.
- 10Universal data layer(4) Ratings
The software utilizes a set of universal data made available through the browser, server, or HTML content.
- 1Automated error checking(3) Ratings
The software automatically detects and alerts users of code errors.
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What is Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)?
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Reviews
(1-5 of 5)Dynamic Tag Management - Tagging at Scale!
- Code releases are not needed to update analytics, media, and other tags on your site.
- It reduces your dependency on web developers to deploy tracking code.
- You can add, remove or modify tags without knowing any coding knowledge.
- If your site has multiple domains and sub-domains, then you can easily manage them all without involving web developers.
- It is only available with Adobe Marketing Cloud so you can't buy it as an independent product.
- It is easier to use than Google Tag Manager, but not nearly as popular.
- Whereas Google Tag Manager is free, Dynamic Tag Management must be purchased as part of Adobe Marketing Cloud.
- Tag library
- 90%9.0
- Tag variable mapping
- 100%10.0
- Ease of writing custom tags
- 100%10.0
- Rules-driven tag execution
- 90%9.0
- Tag performance monitoring
- 100%10.0
- Page load times
- 100%10.0
- Mobile app tagging
- 100%10.0
- Library of JavaScript extensions
- N/AN/A
- Event tracking
- 100%10.0
- Mobile event tracking
- 100%10.0
- Data distribution management
- N/AN/A
- Universal data layer
- 100%10.0
- Automated error checking
- N/AN/A
- Role-based user permissions
- 100%10.0
- As you may know, Dynamic Tag Management is being discontinued partly because of its focus on Adobe only products, which made it difficult to implement third party software with it, and because it wasn't an open platform that allowed a community to build into it.
- Being able to quickly deploy tags without involving a web developer saves money and time.
- Tag Iterations can be done quickly and easily using different tagging templates that DTM can deploy without a code release.
Adobe DTM is a flexible, customized, secure web analytics solution, but with a learning curve
- The ability to measure the start and end of an online process to determine where web visitor's are falling out or not completing things such as login, web forms, and shopping cart
- Measure website traffic
- Measure and report shopping cart funnel
- Can be customized to fit your unique business needs
- Because Adobe Analytics requires adding DTM tags to the site, it does require some basic web development skills to ensure it does not impact pageload speed. When working across a large organization with many developers, it is equally important the developers do remove the code, lacking the understanding of what it is.
- The utilization of eVars, Sprops, and events to tag a website, creates a learning curve for technical teams. There is a gap in knowledge of UX | UI design and the strategy of what should be measured and treated as a click event vs. pageload.
- The Adobe consultants provide very little "real world" examples and they do not look at your web design and the user's functionality to recommend a DTM tagging strategy
- All implementations should start first with a tagging strategy: 1) define what are the most important, critical actions or behaviors on the website 2) Write out the details within the Adobe provided spreadsheet for assigning eVars, Sprops and Events 3) Tag the site
- When consulting within the business team, try to refrain from talking eVars, Sprops and events. It is simply too confusing and is much easier to ask what are the online behaviors or interactions that are most important across the site or on the page and then translate those into a DTM tagging strategy and prioritization.
- Don't try to tag everything! Which often results in over engineering, too many technical resources spending too many hours tagging and testing. Quantity of data is not the same as quality.
- Tag library
- 50%5.0
- Tag variable mapping
- 50%5.0
- Ease of writing custom tags
- 70%7.0
- Rules-driven tag execution
- 80%8.0
- Tag performance monitoring
- 80%8.0
- Page load times
- 90%9.0
- Mobile app tagging
- 80%8.0
- Event tracking
- 90%9.0
- Mobile event tracking
- 90%9.0
- Data distribution management
- 70%7.0
- Universal data layer
- 90%9.0
- Automated error checking
- 10%1.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 100%10.0
- Excellent ROI investment "if" strategy and roll out are prioritized appropriately. Because this is a custom solution, Adobe does not provide this level of guidance.
- From a project management timeline perspective, if the team rolling this out tries to tag everything, then they will quickly run out of time and overextend resource hours.
Easy to Use, Great Version Control
- Rules: There are a wide variety of native triggers that are included for both plain vanilla HTML and single page applications that allow for many specific combinations of triggers.
- QA: The plugin that allows for QA within the console makes it easy to tell if a rule is firing or not without the creation of a separate environment.
- Version Control: It is mercifully simple to roll back to an earlier version if something goes awry. Remember, no matter how good your QA, something will eventually slip through. It's much better to be able to roll back with a couple clicks.
- Single Page Applications: While it's greatly improved over the years, being able to accurately target certain actions on single page applications. In particular, applications built on React are difficult. The addition of a hash change trigger was quite useful, but more is definitely needed.
- Data Elements: Great new tool, but I need it to be easier to create. I'm not an inherently technical individual, and the main benefit of tag management is reducing the need for technical people.
The only situation in which I think a tag manager is not appropriate is if you have a dev with too much time on their hands. Otherwise, get a TMS and get DTM.
- Tag variable mapping
- 100%10.0
- Ease of writing custom tags
- 100%10.0
- Rules-driven tag execution
- 90%9.0
- Tag performance monitoring
- 90%9.0
- Page load times
- 90%9.0
- Mobile app tagging
- N/AN/A
- Event tracking
- N/AN/A
- Mobile event tracking
- N/AN/A
- Data distribution management
- N/AN/A
- Universal data layer
- N/AN/A
- Automated error checking
- N/AN/A
- Role-based user permissions
- 100%10.0
- The key factor is that my devs are not tied up with petty things like adding JS or advertising pixels. Simple work like that can be handled by me while they work on feature development.
- Release cycle is much shorter when a dev is needed, say for a direct call rule that involves JS being written. We don't have to go through the normal release cycle and can do it on an ad hoc basis without all the rigmarole of a hot fix.
Does what it says on the Tin!
- Manage web analytics tags!
- Tag Marketplace is woeful. To say that "over 300 tags are supported" is disingenuous at best.
- No/unclear product roadmap.
- Logging of user actions.
- Documentation support. It is impossible to extract the configuration to produce a client document which can only be done via manual cut/paste into document.
- Lack of data layer flexibility.
- They claim that mobile tag management "is not allowed by Apple" therefore it will not be developed! Thus, it does not address how instrumentation tags should be deployed/altered in between pushes to app marketplaces.
- Support is poor/very poor.
- Tag library
- 10%1.0
- Tag variable mapping
- 50%5.0
- Ease of writing custom tags
- 50%5.0
- Rules-driven tag execution
- 60%6.0
- Tag performance monitoring
- N/AN/A
- Page load times
- 60%6.0
- Mobile app tagging
- 10%1.0
- Library of JavaScript extensions
- 10%1.0
- Event tracking
- 80%8.0
- Mobile event tracking
- 20%2.0
- Data distribution management
- 10%1.0
- Universal data layer
- 10%1.0
- Automated error checking
- 10%1.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 40%4.0
- It does shorten the analytics value cycle dramatically. Ask question > Architect > Deploy > Collect > Report > Answer Question
- Data confidence
- Code maintainability
- Easy: Fire an event, set a variable value.
- Easy: create containers, deploy, debug.
- Easy: grant access to users.
- You need a JavaScript resource to be able to use anything but the most basic functions. If you do not have that resource available, you will struggle immediately.
- Any data analysis whatsoever.
- Work with different data layer standards.
- Deploy anything apart from GA/UA/Omniture
Adobe Dynamic Tag Management Solutions
- It is a rules based tag management system that allows the application of tracking pixels much easier than hard coding.
- By placing 2 pieces of code on the top and bottom of each page of a website, we can create rules that track certain events and relay the information back to Adobe Media Optimizer and Google analytics.
- It has simplified the coding process so one doesn't have to generate tons of gory javascript to deploy on each individual page to get tracking.
- The initial training can be challenging, especially for people without a strong coding background, but it isn't impossible.
- The publishing process is relatively intuitive, but could be improved upon.
- As it is a newer program for Adobe, support is limited.
- It has sped up the coding time of individual website 10 fold.
- The rate of failure of tracking pixels to fire has dropped dramatically.
- It has significantly sped up the progress of getting individual clients implemented into AMO.
- none
- We use it it track on page conversion tracking on client website which almost always diver to a 3rd party booking engine.
- We also use it to implement ecommerce tracking in Google Analytics.
- It also provides parametes to give us full tracking of revenue, room nights booked, and return on investment.
- It has a built in testing platform which allows you to test the code before actually applying it to the website live.
- It has made it easy to the point that with minimal direction, we can utilize analysts without extensive coding knowledge to create rules and apply tracking to websites.
- By speeding up our implementation schedules
- In applying ecommerce tracking to non-AMO clients.
- In applying code to track shopping cart abandonment to assist with remarketing if possible.
- Use it as the model of how we create clients new websites with the use of DTM in mind.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Implemented in-house
- Getting users trained on the program initially.
- the testing feature really takes the guess work out of writing rules and prevents real time glitches going live.
- the creation of the initial codes is quite easy to generate.
- writing rules is quite logically designed to make it easy for even the inexperienced coding person.
- none really.