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Iterable vs Oracle Eloqua comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Iterable
Ranking in Marketing Automation
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Eloqua
Ranking in Marketing Automation
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Marketing Automation category, the mindshare of Iterable is 1.2%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Eloqua is 5.7%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Marketing Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Iterable1.2%
Oracle Eloqua5.7%
Other93.1%
Marketing Automation
 

Featured Reviews

TR
Digital Marketing Manager at Nestle
Marketing team has automated personalized lifecycle emails and now creates more engaging campaigns
The best features Iterable offers are automation and simplicity in use. Iterable is dynamic and allows us to engage customers at all stages of the customer journey. Iterable has allowed our customer communication to be automated. With thousands of customers, the ability to automate email communication has saved our team incredible amounts of time. While Iterable is used largely by our marketing team, we do have individuals who are less tech-savvy with limited coding experience, yet confident in navigating the platform. Iterable is very user-friendly and has maintained its simplicity. Iterable has saved our team an incredible amount of time and manual labor through automation of emailing. With the creative and engaging content created in Iterable, customers are more likely to engage than previously, hence increasing customer engagement. We have saved between sixty to seventy percent of our time through automation. Iterable has allowed us to automate email campaigns to customers by planning a series of emails six months prior to their delivery.
Madhan Krishnamoorthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Functional Consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Integration with CRM and third-party systems significantly boosts campaign management
The native integration could be improved, as Oracle Eloqua has decommissioned it. Manual uploads require changing the data priority order to top priority. Sometimes form capturing data fails, and campaign response issues occur. The pricing of Oracle Eloqua is quite high as it is an Oracle product. Compared to other marketing automation platforms such as Marketo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and Pardot, the price point is higher. The technical support is rated at eight because it can be difficult to get in touch with them after working hours. Support is only available during business hours, so if assistance is needed outside of the nine-to-five window, users must wait until the next day.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Iterable has positively impacted my organization, as it enhanced campaign execution speed, increased engagement and conversion rates through personalization, reduced our dependency on engineering for routine campaign changes, and improved collaboration between marketing and technical teams."
"Iterable has positively impacted our organization as we have seen an improvement since geolocation features improved our weekly email conversion rate by 300%."
"Using Iterable has helped me manage my customer workflows very well, as the process is smooth and quick, and whenever I set up the workflows, the data events trigger immediately, making it a user-friendly workflow setup."
"Iterable saves our time and has better customer relationship benefits, making a very good relationship with our customers because once we have already created the workflow, client communication has been automatically done and our work, work pressure, and work stress have been reduced, creating a very good impact on a better work environment."
"Iterable is one of the best, efficient, and user-friendly CRM campaign management tools."
"Iterable positively impacts my organization because it is our main platform that we use in order to communicate with our customers, so its value is one hundred percent."
"Iterable helped my team and key metrics significantly, allowing us to save up to 30% of the time, and the speed of overall operation efficiency has improved."
"Iterable allows us to trigger SMS messages through Twilio based on real-time user events such as abandoned actions, incomplete transactions, account or subscription changes, inactivity or re-engagement milestones."
"The solution is stable."
"The campaign canvas is extremely versatile, while being easy to use."
"The ease of maintenance is the most valuable feature."
"I like the insight part, where we can pull the reports. Oracle Eloqua can generate reports on the activities that customers take or that we do. That is one interesting part that I enjoy working with."
"Eloqua's marketing automation tool has made me not only a better marketer but has given me a new outlook on marketing."
"Eloqua gets modern marketing, plain and simple."
"It is a user-friendly product."
"Eloqua has a drag-and-drop interface based on HTML5 and is the easiest WYSIWYG editor for creating landing pages and HTML emails that I've ever seen."
 

Cons

"Iterable challenges I have faced include a steep learning curve for advanced use cases; basic campaigns are easy to launch, but advanced and personalized campaigns or event-based logic take considerable time, which is a challenge for new users."
"When I consider needed improvements, I find that the limitation in handling many brands in a single project can be problematic, which affects the use of custom event data within Handlebar logic, and the foldering option for snippets and lists needs improvement."
"That is something that is currently frustrating."
"However, the challenge occurs when a large number of users are simultaneously on the whiteboards, but otherwise, there is no problem with scalability."
"Iterable can be improved regarding handling attributes, as it has limited limitations on event attributes and profile attributes."
"Although the platform is powerful, advanced use cases require a learning curve and deeper analytics and performance optimization at scale could further enhance its value."
"I would like more training and resources on how to use Iterable."
"Iterable has a straightforward and impressive setup, but there are some nuances relating to how the setup works when operating in different markets."
"The solution does not have a good database architecture."
"​Reporting is very clunky and not user friendly.​"
"Due to its advanced nature, some traditional marketing users can be put of by the different approaches and requirements"
"This product hasn't kept up to date on features; they haven't adapted to or adopted newer ways of doing business."
"Costs a bit more than some of the other providers and there's a bit of a learning curve compared to less powerful Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) Some advances features like Eloqua for Sales are at an additional cost."
"Price can be somewhat expensive"
"Some times new features get rolled out too soon, but the good thing is they constantly adapt to the demands of their customers."
"There are some limitations with the platform in terms of creativity."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Oracle Eloqua's pricing is medium."
"The tool is pricey compared to products like Marketo."
"Oracle Eloqua is quite an affordable solution."
"Oracle Eloqua can be expensive compared to alternatives."
"It's quite expensive."
"Our licensing costs are yearly."
"The solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
20%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Transportation Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Iterable?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been very good.
What needs improvement with Iterable?
One area where Iterable could be improved is usability when Journeys become very complex. It is a powerful tool, but managing many branches, conditions, and campaigns can be quite complex and diffi...
What is your primary use case for Iterable?
My main use case for Iterable was lifecycle marketing and cross-channel customer engagement. I used it to manage onboarding, activation, and retention campaigns across channels like email, push not...
What needs improvement with Oracle Eloqua?
Some areas of Oracle Eloqua that could be improved include enhancements for campaign features, such as the ability to filter contacts based on date intervals or related functionalities that current...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Eloqua?
In my company, I work with Oracle Eloqua and do not use it internally. My usual use cases for Oracle Eloqua include day-to-day work, where I'm currently working on implementation-related tasks, spe...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Eloqua?
I am not sure how to answer that. We take care of emails and fetch the data regarding that only. I have not explored many other options given by Oracle Eloqua.
 

Comparisons

 

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Eloqua, Oracle Marketing Cloud
 

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