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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Experience Manager

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering marketing content.N/A

    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Bloomreach is presented as an agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses can use Bloomreach to create experiences that drive growth and loyalty. Bloomreach states that they currently drive personalization for 1,400+…N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Experience ManagerBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details—Bloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.
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    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Bloomreach
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Higher ROI. A larger range of channels. Reduced campaign set-up and management effort.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    126 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    127 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    99 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    98 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    129 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    128 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    85 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    88 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Experience ManagerBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.4
    38 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.438 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.0
    33 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    8% above category average
    API7.829 Ratings7.879 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.340 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.847 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.428 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.5
    38 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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    WYSIWYG editor7.433 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.734 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.637 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.835 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.629 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.3
    37 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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    Content taxonomy7.731 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.236 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.9
    56 Ratings
    4% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.751 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings7.852 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings6.425 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.954 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.345 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.755 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.3
    43 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.936 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.437 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings7.440 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.719 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    38 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings8.635 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.627 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    33 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.828 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings8.320 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Experience Manager and Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.5
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.456 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.253 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.053 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Experience ManagerBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (85 ratings)
    9.8
    (147 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (50 ratings)
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.4
    (14 ratings)
    Bloomreach Customer Support
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (110 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Experience ManagerBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    I'll answer the second one because I mean, the first one I don't have an issue with. The second scenario is we oftentimes have the need to spin off very small campaign style sites or sites that generate leads but are unbranded and that sort of thing. So that's hard to do in AEM because you have to then create another organization within AEM to do that. And we're talking about sites that are maybe five to 10 pages in size. So we've been investigating Edge, but then that's a different workflow, so we'd have to train people on that. So it would be nice if there was something within the AEM structure that could allow you to do something very similar to Edge, where you make some small micro sites that are not necessarily branded, that you could still host within the platform and not have to retrain everybody on a completely different platform.
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    Bloomreach
    Perfect for onboarding, retention, win-back, and VIP nurture campaigns where customer behavior and timing matter. Excellent when you need to react instantly to customer actions across channels.


    Example: A shopper abandons their cart and immediately receives a push notification followed by an email with the exact items they left behind.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • It allows us to scale so that we can make a change on a global footer. And it applies to all of the different property websites. It allows us to set up components and compartmentalize things in a way. The big thing is that it's scalable. And then it also ties into Adobe Analytics and other Adobe products. So we are a complete Adobe shop. Every Adobe product that we can use, we use. I don't think we do it for marketing so much, but for doing target testing and analytics, data scientists are using the same product and so it all speaks.
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    Bloomreach
    • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
    • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
    • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Can sometimes be difficult to troubleshoot bugs/issues as they arise
    • Sometimes difficult to set up restrictions on how components can be designed to make sure they fit in with existing content
    • While the integration with Adobe target works fairly well, the process can be a bit opaque and hard to understand, making it difficult to troubleshoot when issues arise
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    Bloomreach
    • While Importing the offline data, sometimes the auto detection is failed to detect the csv file
    • While we import with wrong mapping, even after pressing escape before the import starts, its not cancelling the import. it start running. It would be great if it stops the import
    • it would be great if we receive email for successfully finished imports too
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We had and still have a fantastic experience using Adobe CQ. Lots of flexibility, great integration with other Adobe products we already use and a powerful technology make it a great fit for our corporate environment. Also as the community grows, it makes it easier to network with other developers and users to get new ideas on how to continue to get the best out of the software.
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    Bloomreach
    We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    It depends if it is from an administrator point of view or from a business content author point of view. I think from business author point of view the solution is good and with the GEN AI capabilities coming it is doing better and better, however from an administration point of view there are still a lot of improvements to ease the maintenance of user access management and as well as the integration configuration aspect.
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    Bloomreach
    In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Being part of Adobe Suite means you are already notified when the tool has any outages. However, I have never faced unplanned outages. Whenever you face any issue with the site, it is clearly stated if there were any planned outages and how quickly you will be back to normal. So, I will say that even the outages are planned and managed in a great way like their other services.
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    Bloomreach
    It has always been available with great response times. Honestly in almost 5 years there was like one outage and I have to admit that it was solved so quick that I don't even know if it's fair to even call it that. Bloomreach is extremely reliable, can't fault it.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    With respect to performance, Adobe experience manager is one of the best in the CMS space. We didn't observe frequent slowness on platform, however the systems which are accessing experience manager should be of good specifications without which slowness would be observed. Adobe experience manager works well in integration with other solutions, unless the destination application is designed to trigger frequent calls to AEM.
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    Bloomreach
    ten out of ten, Bloomreach has revolutionised our marketing capabilities. It has allowed us to get real time data insights from our customers, and then put these into action. Previously it would be a very time consuming and slow process for us to get any sort of campaign out but not anymore, this has lead to increased conversions and revenue
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Adobe Experience Manager, in all its capacity, is a great alternative to any other CMS you are using. It helps in rapid development and makes life easier for maintaining the website for multi-language sites. Technical know-how is eliminated at content authoring. Better documentation in terms of live examples with videos would be appreciated.
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    Bloomreach
    I have given this rating as i feel the team is very responsive and helpful whenever issues arise. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization provides clear guidance and practical solutions which make it easier to get campaigns live quickly. They also share the best practices and recommendations that help us make the most of the platform.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Bloomreach
    The team was really helpful in explaining
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Bloomreach
    It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Depending on your individual needs, It is really quite simple to create an authoring experience for a website that looks really good. I have been part of many implementations and many teams and have seen many projects that were super successful and others that were not implemented well. AEM has room for a lot of flexibility in the implementation process compared to other CMS like SharePoint
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    Bloomreach
    None it went smoothly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Overall, I prefer AEM as an enterprise site management tool. It allows levels of access control and delegation, while leaving the server management and updates to a specialized team. I do miss the flexibility of being able to search and replace that I have in a WordPress site, and I miss the ability to have one file for redirects like I had in percussion
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    Bloomreach
    Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    Instead of being directly involved in the tool purchase, I am involved in analysis or what we can use to maximize the tool. Small organizations may find it expensive. However, if the team or organization focuses more on your ROI or the features you will get, then it will definitely be worth it. Pricing is based on a number of factors, including team size or the use of the tool. The user can select the pricing option that best fits their needs based on the number of form submissions they make or the number of pages they wish to publish on their global/multisite sites.
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    Bloomreach
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Bloomreach
    there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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    Professional Services
    Adobe
    The professional services team within adobe is one of the best in terms of technical and solutioning knowledge. However, considering the billing charges of adobe professional services team, it is always recommended to involve them during platform initial setup or when a complex solution is to be built with platform customizations.
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    Bloomreach
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • too soon to tell on increased conversion rates based on external marketing factors in play but having increased visibility into customer engagement trends will most likely lead to improvement of our conversion rates.
    • There have been productivity gains from the perspective of actually migrating all of our externally managed sites to the same in-house Adobe Experience Manager platform and then being able to utilize those universal components.
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    Bloomreach
    • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
    • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
    • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
    • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
    • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Experience Manager Screenshots

    Screenshot of AEM Forms - Creates an adaptive formScreenshot of AEM Forms - themes libraryScreenshot of AEM Forms - where to create a templateScreenshot of AEM Forms - the interactive communications editorScreenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - document-based authoring enables marketers to create and publish content with familiar tools.Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - Universal Editor, an advanced visual editor, empowers marketers to edit and publish content.

    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization Screenshots

    Screenshot of funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of web layers with A/B testingScreenshot of the drag and drop campaign editorScreenshot of the WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templatesScreenshot of the CRM with 360° customer behaviour history