Segment

Segment

Customer data hub

4.6/5 (31 reviews)

Segment Overview

What is Segment?

Segment is a customer data management and analytics solution that helps you make sense of customer data coming from multiple various sources. The app integrates with hundreds of other apps, pulling data from these apps into a single platform. It also pulls data from your websites as well as from devices such as mobiles, tablets, browsers, smartwatches, iBeacons, point-of-sale registers, and TVs. You can access all of your data in Segment and automate it to a schematized SQL database using Amazon Redshift to analyze how your product is being used, identify trends, understand revenue, and evaluate campaign performance. Segment stores a copy of your raw data so you can access it anytime. With Segment you can export your data to any of your existing, internal systems and apps. You can also replay your historical data into new apps and tools that you have subscribed to or are trialling. Segment's live stream feature lets you view events in real-time such as when someone makes a purchase on your site or app. You can also use the Segment plug-in to integrate Segment with your ecommerce platform.

Segment Overview

Pricing

Starting from
N/A

Pricing options

Free Trial
Free
Subscription
Value for money

Free - 100,000 events per month
$29 - 1,000,000 events per month
$79 - 10,000,000 events per month
$349 - 20,000,000 events per month


Segment Features

Devices
Business size
S M L
Markets
Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, United States
Supported Languages
English

Screenshots

Segment screenshot: Choose your integration in Segment
Segment screenshot: Choose your integration in Segment Segment screenshot: Event tracing in Segment Segment screenshot: New Segment feature- live debugger

Segment Reviews

Segment Reviews

Overall rating
4.6
/
5 31 reviews
Excellent
22

Very good
7

Average
1

Poor
0

Terrible
1

Value for Money
3.8
Features
4.6
Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Support
4.3
94% recommended this app
Jonny D.

Segment - The Data Layer to Have

Segment solves the problem of add script once. Enable quickly.
Data flows and needs a pipe to steer it in the right direction. Segment makes this easy.
Create a data science team in seconds and connect to a wide and vast number of tools and connections from Adwords to Facebook all the way through to iOS and Android. This covers many bases.


Tamás S.

A reliable tool for event tracking and syncronization

In our organization Segment is mostly used to track events from the website backend. There are other feature rich alternatives for frontend tracking but server-side tracking is not a priority for them.

Segment really saves a lot of software, devops and data engineer hours alike by reliable continuous data delivery.


Guruprasad H.

Good tool for startups

Overall, it helps you to start really fast. We at www.quiznext.in use segment to collect data from our app and send it to warehouse, firebase, fb etc.


Christopher S.

Great software to remove the burden of countless API integrations

Saved a ton of dev time


Fayssal J.

Segment is a great tool, if you can afford it then you should start using it right now.

Always happy to recommend segment ! A great tool.


Jonny D.
Industry: Financial Services
Company size: 51-200 Employees

Segment - The Data Layer to Have

Used Daily for 2+ years
Reviewed on 2019/09/02
Review Source: Capterra

Segment solves the problem of add script once. Enable quickly.
Data flows and needs a pipe to steer it in the right direction. Segment makes this easy.
Create a data science team in seconds and connect to a wide and vast number of tools and connections from Adwords to Facebook all the way through to iOS and Android. This covers many bases.

Pros

Segment have built a best in class data layer and data management tool.
The tool is easy to set up and creating destinations and understanding sources is simple.

Add the code for Web, Mobile or a data warehouse. Then enable product and marketing teams to enable and disable marketing and product tools easily.

The new personas feature is also incredibly powerful.

Make collecting analytics .track and .page and .identify easy.

Cons

Segment does make data easy and because of the quality of the tool it does come at a cost. The benefit is it does scale with you because the price plan works on MTUs. But it really depends on the size of your business.
Beware not to over enable and connect too much if you are not using it. This will add un-necessary load which can impact mobile page speed.

Rating breakdown

Value for Money
Ease of Use
Customer Support

Likelihood to recommend: 9.0/10

Tamás S.
Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 51-200 Employees

A reliable tool for event tracking and syncronization

Used Daily for 1+ year
Reviewed on 2019/10/24
Review Source: Capterra

In our organization Segment is mostly used to track events from the website backend. There are other feature rich alternatives for frontend tracking but server-side tracking is not a priority for them.

Segment really saves a lot of software, devops and data engineer hours alike by reliable continuous data delivery.

Pros

- Intuitive UI.
- Event tester on the UI.
- Several client libraries.
- You can sync even your backdata, e.g. when setting up a new warehouse.
- Pricing is based on users not events.

Cons

- Custom schedule for synchronisation or event validation is only available in higher packages.
- Some integrations just don't support a moderately sophisticated setup. E.g. if you don't want 1 million API calls a day you should construct specific Segment calls to update Salesforce leads.

Rating breakdown

Value for Money
Ease of Use

Likelihood to recommend: 8.0/10

Guruprasad H.
Industry: E-Learning
Company size: 13-50 Employees

Good tool for startups

Used Daily for 2+ years
Reviewed on 2019/02/05
Review Source: Capterra

Overall, it helps you to start really fast. We at www.quiznext.in use segment to collect data from our app and send it to warehouse, firebase, fb etc.

Pros

Easy setup, Easier to collect data and send to warehouse. Integration with other tools is easy.

Cons

Not all integrations are seemless. Many integrations require client side app installation, which just reduces the code a bit. Once you start attracting decent users, it turns out to be expensive and need to look for alternative tools.

Rating breakdown

Value for Money
Ease of Use
Customer Support

Likelihood to recommend: 9.0/10

Christopher S.
Industry: Food Production
Company size: 51-200 Employees

Great software to remove the burden of countless API integrations

Used Daily for 2+ years
Reviewed on 2018/04/25
Review Source: Capterra

Saved a ton of dev time

Pros

It takes the burden off of our own teams to manage a slew of API integrations. This saves us a ton in developer costs in time, and makes it very easy to vet new tools for our analytics and marketing stacks.

Cons

Like any abstraction layer, not everything is plug-and-play. As you start to use more integrations, this becomes more complicated in it's own right, and you sometimes need to regress back to a standard API integration.

Rating breakdown

Value for Money
Ease of Use
Customer Support

Likelihood to recommend: 10.0/10

Fayssal J.

Segment is a great tool, if you can afford it then you should start using it right now.

Used Daily for 2+ years
Reviewed on 2018/07/31
Review Source: Capterra

Always happy to recommend segment ! A great tool.

Pros

The last tool to integrate with various apps. Write once and integrate infinitely.
Time saving is worthless and make your app load much faster.

Cons

Pricing is not small businesses friendly ;(
Would be great if we can write and view integrations comments from other users.
Please share future integration pipeline.

Rating breakdown

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Ease of Use
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Likelihood to recommend: 10.0/10

User recommendation
8.8/10
Based on 31 user ratings
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Segment Pricing

Segment Pricing

Starting from
N/A
Free Trial
Free
Subscription
Value for money

Free - 100,000 events per month
$29 - 1,000,000 events per month
$79 - 10,000,000 events per month
$349 - 20,000,000 events per month

Free - 100,000 events per month
$29 - 1,000,000 events per month
$79 - 10,000,000 events per month
$349 - 20,000,000 events per month

Value for Money
3.8/5
Based on 31 user ratings
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Segment Features

Segment Features

API
Activity Dashboard
Ad hoc Reporting
Business Intelligence
Charting
Collaboration Tools
Customizable Reporting
Dashboard Creation
Data Filtering
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Drag & Drop Interface
Filtered Views
Monitoring
Real Time Analytics
Real Time Data
Reporting & Statistics
Third Party Integration
Trend Analysis
Visual Analytics
Features
4.6/5
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Additional information for Segment

Additional information for Segment

Key features of Segment

  • 24/7 monitoring
  • 99.99% uptime
  • Analytics for ecommerce
  • Customer data management
  • Export API
  • Hundreds of app integrations
  • Invite collaborators
  • Live events stream
  • Pull data from POS, iBeacons, smartwatches
  • Query data in Amazon Redshift
  • Raw data strorage
  • Real-time analytics events
  • Replay historical data
  • SQL data visualization
  • Send data from mutiple devices
  • Unlimited projects
  • Webhook integration

Benefits

  • Data import: Pull together customer data from your apps, websites and from multiple devices - from phones to smartwatches - as well as internal product and transactional data.

  • Data analysis: Use SQL in Amazon Redshift to query your data, apply cross-product analysis, and forecast trends.

  • Data replay: When you start trialling or using a new application Segment replays your historical data and brings it into these new tools.

  • Advanced integrations: Segment integrates with hundreds of tools, from marketing, to sales, to business intelligence. You can also order new integrations to be built and use the one-click ecommerce plugin for use with ecommerce platforms.

  • Customization: Use webhooks to forward all events to your own servers and invite team members to collaborate on certain projects.

  • Segment FAQs

    Segment FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Segment.

    Q. What type of pricing plans does Segment offer?

    Segment offers the following pricing plans:

    Pricing model: Free, Subscription

    Free Trial: Not Available

    Free - 100,000 events per month $29 - 1,000,000 events per month $79 - 10,000,000 events per month $349 - 20,000,000 events per month

    Q. What are the main features of Segment?

    Segment offers the following features:

    • 24/7 monitoring
    • 99.99% uptime
    • Analytics for ecommerce
    • Customer data management
    • Export API
    • Hundreds of app integrations
    • Invite collaborators
    • Live events stream
    • Pull data from POS, iBeacons, smartwatches
    • Query data in Amazon Redshift
    • Raw data strorage
    • Real-time analytics events
    • Replay historical data
    • SQL data visualization
    • Send data from mutiple devices
    • Unlimited projects
    • Webhook integration

    Q. Who are the typical users of Segment?

    Segment has the following typical customers:

    Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

    Q. What languages does Segment support?

    Segment supports the following languages:

    English

    Q. What type of pricing plans does Segment offer?

    Segment has the following pricing plans:

    Free, Subscription

    Q. Does Segment support mobile devices?

    We do not have any information about what devices Segment supports

    Q. What other apps does Segment integrate with?

    Segment integrates with the following applications:

    ActiveCampaign, Ambassador, Chartio, Help Scout, Iterable, LiveChat, Lodgify, Olark, Optimizely, Thinkific

    Q. What level of support does Segment offer?

    Segment offers the following support options:

    Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support