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- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy and time saving
Reviewed on 2023/03/29
Great business partners. They work with you to build, teach and help you succeed in using their...
Great business partners. They work with you to build, teach and help you succeed in using their product. The team is amazing and always helpful and on top of what we need.
Pros
We really like how easy it is to use the tool. Users who are not as experienced in SQL can easily put together audiences, build data extensions and update data without ever typing a line of code.
Cons
Would love to be able to transition SQL code to DESelect segments. Backwards compatibility maybe?
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great place to store and segment all our customer data
Reviewed on 2024/06/11
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It lets us easily filter through our customer data to create relevant target audiences through segmentation, and holds enough detail on them to allow us to personalise our campaigns, while still complying with GDPR.
Cons
If I get something wrong setting up a target audience, it's not always clear what I've done wrong. It's always human error, but sometimes I'd appreciate more handholding so less detective work is required when a new data extension brings up 0 customers.
- Industry: Broadcast Media
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
DE select search product
Reviewed on 2023/11/06
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DE Select - this is a great product that helps us in a daily work and saves a lot of time in Marketing Cloud.
Cons
Many times it stops working from no reason. So stability of the feature (deselct search).
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great addition to Marketing Cloud
Reviewed on 2024/01/17
Pros
DESelect has been an outstanding addition to our Marketing Cloud tech stack. It has allowed us to enable less technically-inclined individuals to create customer segments without having to get technical resources involved. They also have a great on-boarding team and support staff in case you run into any issues.
Cons
DESelect has a bit of a learning curve at first due to the many features and functionalities of the platform.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
DESelect integrated with SFMC
Reviewed on 2024/02/26
Pros
The ease of use and ability to connect all our data sources which allows for easier segmentation and model building
Cons
I don't have any cons for using deselect yet. I enjoy the tool and it has been helpful to do what we need
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great data segmentation and targeting tool
Reviewed on 2024/05/21
Pros
Ability to see exact customer send numbers for email comms pre-send, rather than afterwards (which was my previous experience using Audience Builder in Salesforce). The level of segmentation you're able to perform within the data.
Cons
Takes getting used to - feels a lot more complex than Audience Builder to wrap your head around.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Outstanding Platform
Reviewed on 2023/12/19
Pros
I love the drag and drop ease of creating data extensions. I love that i can merge multiples together to make 1 easy send.
Cons
I cannot think of anything that i do not like.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy-to-use tool and fantastic customer service
Reviewed on 2023/07/17
DESelect has helped us create targeted segments for our direct marketing activities and I can't...
DESelect has helped us create targeted segments for our direct marketing activities and I can't imagine if I would have to do the same in SFMC. With DESelect it's easier to filter out all data and the data preview allows me to avoid mistakes.
Pros
I enjoy how easy it is to create DE without being the most technical person on team. And the possibility to create templates and data sets have made my job so much easier and faster.
Cons
It took me a while to understand the structure of data views, but with the help of their customer service I'm now available to create more advanced DE and I often use data views to collect more data about activities of our subscribers.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Innovative, Simple and Amazing tool
Reviewed on 2023/07/12
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DESelect is so easy to use and it's a great tool for our company! I use it almost every day and I like the fact it doesn't require a complex code. It also gives more space to work around behavioral data. It's very innovative and I highly recommend it!
Cons
So far no bad experience while working on Deselect
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A great tool for our company!
Reviewed on 2023/07/12
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DESelect has been a fantastic fit for our company, as it's really easy to use, fast, innovative and user friendly.
Cons
It took me a little while to understand the logic behind building lists in this way but now I'm a regular user it's a super easy and handy tool to use.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great tool
Reviewed on 2023/07/11
My experience with DeSelect is great I am able to create custom lists and reports only possible...
My experience with DeSelect is great I am able to create custom lists and reports only possible with SQL which would have taken me a long time previously. I'm also not comfortable with SQL so using DeSelect has saved me a bunch of time and allowed me to do things I was previously unable to do and left frustrated
Pros
DeSelect is great tool to simplify and speed up the process of using SQL within MC which for me is a must to get the most out of the platform
Cons
I have nothing I dislike about DeSelect
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Easy, time-saver and intuitive
Reviewed on 2023/10/18
Pros
Previously, segmenting our data for marketing campaigns was a highly repetitive and time-consuming process due to the diverse sources of our data. However, we've now created a repository of precise, reusable segments that can be easily refreshed whenever needed.
Cons
I haven't experienced any issues with DESelect so far.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great tool
Reviewed on 2023/07/11
Pros
It's easy to use and quick, with a great support team
Cons
To be quite honest, I don't have any bad feedback, everything has been positive and straightforward so far
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Quick and user-friendly
Reviewed on 2023/07/12
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DESelect is an impressive and sophisticated tool that has sped up the process of building queries and data extensions with a simple, user-friendly drag and drop feature, and without the need for complex coding or SQL knowledge.
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I haven't encountered any issues with DESelect so far...
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
My favorite app in AppExchange
Reviewed on 2023/04/24
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I've been using this tool for another month and I think it's really worth the price. The entire segmentation process is moved to a much higher level, no time is wasted on the implementation and results of SQL code. I heartily recommend. favorite
Cons
Nothing ;) As I mentioned in title this is my favorite app in SFMC to apply.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
DESelect has finally allowed us to use Salesforce Marketing Cloud to its full potential
Reviewed on 2023/02/13
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I love how easy DESelect is to integrate. Also the ongoing support from [sensitive content hidden] has been nothing short of incredible. He is like an addition to our team. Since integrating with DESelect we can achieve even the most complicated of selections with drag and drop. Now we never have to say no to our clients!
Cons
We would really like to be able to drop fields in their end position instead of having to add them to the bottom and drag them into position after the point.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
DESelect helps save time!
Reviewed on 2023/02/14
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One of the best features that DESelect provides is being able to schedule a list I created to run on a daily basis in DESelect that automatically updates in SFMC. This eliminates me having to create an another Automation in Automation Studio and helps save me time to focus on other areas of my role. I also love the DESelect Search feature, where you can key in what data-extension you're looking for in SFMC and search will tell you exactly where to locate it. Huge help!
Cons
I think it would be great if DESelect offered the exact SQL query so I can learn how to read and understand the language better for future use cases.
Response from DESelect
Hi Junior,
Thank you very much for your review!
We agree that a "side-feature" of DESelect is being able to create Selections for SQL learning purposes and, good news is: you can see the SQL generated within DESelect!
To see the SQL generated for a Selection, you can click on the "View SQL Query" button in the Preview step.
Here's an article for further reference:
https://support.deselect.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005240318-How-to-run-a-Preview-of-a-Selection-

- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
No coding needed
Reviewed on 2023/01/26
Pros
Brings an ease to segment your customer database
Cons
None that i would find out in comparison to MC SQL queries
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
DESelect in Česká Spořitelna
Reviewed on 2023/01/23
Pros
DESelect helped us a lot with bridging the knowledge gap between IT and Business People. Therefore even non technical colleagues are able to segment their campaigns with ease.
Cons
Most of the missing functionalities are part of the higher licence, where we would see a decrease in the value for money as those features are mostly "nice-to-have".
- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great product for creating custom data extensions
Reviewed on 2023/02/09
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As someone that does not know how to write SQL queries, DESelect makes creating custom data extensions a breeze! The drag and drop features are so easy to use too!
Cons
Nothing! This is a very user-friendly software.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
DeSelect is a really good investment
Reviewed on 2022/12/20
We save a lot of time when it comes to accessing data, you can use DeSelect with raw data from both...
We save a lot of time when it comes to accessing data, you can use DeSelect with raw data from both sendable and non sendable data extensions, and you can even access synchronized data extensions. Doing complicated queryes from multiple data sources used to take a lot of time, but with DeSelect this is a lot more efficient. With DeSelect you don´t need to know SQL and everyone can easily learn it. Also - DeSelect support is great and everyone who works there are so nice and willing to help at all times. They really want you to succeed which makes learning and starting to use DeSelect a really good experience.
Pros
What I like the most is that it saves a lot of time from learing and writing heavy SQLs. You can access tons of data sources in a few clicks and customize it as you please. It is also very intuitive as long as you know your data model and Marketing Cloud. It´s no longer a hazzle to create complicated segments and add all the personalization you wish.
Cons
Nothing that I don´t like, but I got more to learn. I would really recommend to do the training to get the full experience. There are so many capabilities that are so useful once you know how to access them and use them.
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Immediate ROI Through Time-Savings and Data Optimization
Reviewed on 2022/10/26
Our time-to-efficiency on Marketing Cloud would have been SIGNIFICANTLY longer if not for DESelect....
Our time-to-efficiency on Marketing Cloud would have been SIGNIFICANTLY longer if not for DESelect. On top of having a very custom data structure in SFMC, we also have a high volume of query builds with a lot of complex audience segmentation and ABM targeting. If we had to rely on on-staff SQL knowledge, we would have required investment in training and/or new talent, and feared that would still leave us vulnerable to query inaccuracies. Instead, we found DESelect in the 11th hour during our implementation and they were able to get us configured, trained, and ramped in a matter of weeks, while helping us solve our very specific use cases. What's more, they were able to show us how better to organize our data and selections through picklists and templates, which has led to more accurate and efficient querying. At this point, I don't know how we could live without it.
Pros
User-friendly drag and drop functionality, and easy query automation scheduling. The picklists were a game-changer for more intuitive and accurate query building. And their customer support is second-to-none; our [SENSITIVE CONTENT] is so knowledgeable and responsive, he's made our implementation such a positive experience.
Cons
The way we're configuring our queries to reference a central data source, there is significant risk if something is changed or deleted. The same features that allow us to scale quickly can also break multiple queries at once. An "undo" command or other protections on critical selections might give us more peace of mind in this regard.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy way to define the target group for your marketing campaign
Reviewed on 2022/12/19
DEselect allows an easy access to any data source of Salesforce MCL (synchronised and custom...
DEselect allows an easy access to any data source of Salesforce MCL (synchronised and custom created data extensions, as well as MCL data views) with all its attributes, both for filtering in a selection and for using as an output. That, instead of writing SQL statements. It also supports the creation of data source templates and filter sets which significantly helps reusing typical patterns. DEselect as a company itself, reacts fast on questions and issues, the support is very professional.
Pros
End-to-end process for a target group selection including the definition, creation and modification of the target data extension in MCL. The output data can easily be mapped or calculated, aggregated or transformed upfront, as needed. Integration into MCL so that the selection can be schedulled in MCL Automation Studio, or the results accessed in Contact Builder or Email Studio.
Cons
The usage of the tool still requires a good knowledge about how databases work in general, and specifically the underlaying data structure and data. The performance, even for quick previews or counts, depends strongly on MCL performance, while working on more than one query in parallel is not supported.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Segmentation tool built for MarketingCloud
Reviewed on 2022/01/13
Before DESelect, we were using Salesforce SalesCloud Reports & Campaign Combiner to create segments...
Before DESelect, we were using Salesforce SalesCloud Reports & Campaign Combiner to create segments & selections used for emailing purposes. It did not require any SQL knowledge. But, in the background, data processing problems arose when creating selections, apart from the time-consuming actions from our data analysts & marketeers. As a company, we have a large number of daily and weekly queries to handle.
At this point, DESelect was consulted to make segmentation much easier, also for complex email selections. We felt there were no other solutions in the market or on the Salesforce AppExchange. As we have no SQL experience in-house, MarketingCloud Queries was also no option. This sort of work can distract marketeers from their real workload. Their focus must be on the targets and KPIs, rather than spending time figuring out how to do segmentation.
Using DESelect is much more efficient and much easier than using SQL especially if you are a non-technical person. DESelect’s drag-and-drop functionality and a more visual representation of SQL statements really help marketeers make their selections, avoiding spending more time than they should.
Pros
Easy drag-and-drop functionality
A more visual representation of SQL statements
Preview mode
Less time-consuming
Cons
Not easy for non-data minded marketeers (knowledge of data relationships needed)
Errors occur often
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
If using Marketing Cloud must also Budget for DESelect
Reviewed on 2022/10/18
Not having advanced sql knowledge we could never write hundreds of queries in a timely manner. ...
Not having advanced sql knowledge we could never write hundreds of queries in a timely manner. DeSelet solves for that
Pros
Not having to have a team of SQL programers on staff or having to go to IT for every request.
Cons
Anything that was missing or needed enhanced was added in future quarterly updates.