SAS Customer Intelligence 360 vs SendPulse

SAS Customer Intelligence 360 is a customer engagement platform for turning customer insights into personalized actions across channels. Its capabilities include audience management, journey orchestration, marketing decisioning, and marketing AI. Organizations can target audiences using a hybrid data architecture that lets them keep data where they choose. Journey tools plan activity across touchpoints, support analytically driven scheduling, and enable collaborative workflows. Marketers can build complex decision logic and use templates for next-best action, next-best offer, and lead scoring. Built-in analytics include likelihood-to-churn and likelihood-to-purchase measures; GenAI-guided tools support model creation and activation. The platform connects with cloud services, customer data platforms, CRM systems, analytics tools, and marketing applications. Built-in and custom REST connectors reach external applications on premises or in the cloud. Security controls include PII detection and redaction, masking, encryption, hashing, and configurable retention policies. SAS says the product is designed to support GDPR, CCPA, and other regional privacy requirements. Cloud delivery combines customer-level digital data with traditional sources. Listed platforms are Android, iOS, web, and API. Pricing is available on request.

SendPulse is an email marketing service for managing subscriber audiences and running email campaigns. It includes email automation, audience segmentation, and A/B testing, but does not offer landing pages. SendPulse is available on the web, iOS, and Android. Its free plan supports up to 500 subscribers and 15,000 emails per month, with three sender email addresses, 250 MB of image storage, five automated flows, and one event. The Standard plan is $9.60 a month when billed annually, with unlimited emails for up to 500 subscribers, 100 sender addresses, 1 GB of image storage, three A/B test groups, and ten saved segments. Pro is $11.52 a month billed annually, with 300 sender addresses, 2 GB storage, four test groups, and 50 saved segments at the same subscriber limit. Standard pay as you go costs $48 a month for 10,000 emails, valid for a year. Enterprise has no listed price and specifies at least 2,500 contacts, along with unlimited sender addresses, users, and saved segments.