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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomfire

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bloomfire provides knowledge engagement, aiming to deliver an experience that connects teams and individuals with the information they need to excel at their jobs. Their cloud-based knowledge engagement platform aims to give people one centralized, searchable place to engage with shared knowledge and grow their organization's collective intelligence.

    $25

    per month

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
    Pricing
    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$25No setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomfire
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    160 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Bloomfire and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomfire and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    API00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Bloomfire and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Bloomfire and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Bloomfire and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Bloomfire and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Campaign management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Cloud enablement00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Content aggregation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Content classification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customer data analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multi-website management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Digital asset management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
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    Slite
    Score2.8 out of 10
    Yext
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Guru
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Verint Knowledge Management
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomfireSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomfire
    Ad testing:
    • PTS: needed to bring a new senior marketing team member up to speed on how we got to our current TV campaign
    • Solution: Series featuring consumer insights, why specific spokesperson, agency brief, the entire creative process - scrips, animatics, rough cuts, feedback, and testing at each step. Including the actual creative from each step.
    • Total time to build: 1 hour
    Concept testing:
    • PTS: things get lost, findable but version control
    • Solution: everything in one placeConcepts, testing, IHUTs, verbatims, videos with transcripts. Reduces the possibility of missing something, helps with any builds (reuse), but gives us a the chance to dig deeper. Example: search on terms like "indulgent", or "crispy" or "share" much faster
    • Total time to build: 1 hour
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud is well-suited for organizations that have clients who periodically or routinely need to access historical data or documents. The product also offers an exceptionally effective tool to engage with customers around support/service issues and the entire Case management functionality built into the Salesforce platform. The product might be less well-suited in environments where there is exceptionally high staff turnover within customer accounts, or where there is a substantial lack of very basic computer skills.
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    Pros
    Bloomfire
    • Quickly reach out to whatever employee segment you want to reach by posting a topic and it will send a notification to everyone in that group with a link to the posting.
    • Bloomfire saves all of the previous posts so in your free time you can go to the site, and explore the various range of topics others have posted. The information on there will only be as good as the person posting it, but it will be people within your company and industry posting it. So it will always be helpful.
    • Bloomfire is a place to be noticed by your peers. Have a great topic you want to express, my company allows all to post there as long as we keep it professional. So you can share your ideas or experiences in a safe and productive manner. But we do have some fun on there too!
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    Salesforce
    • Complete integration with the Salesforce ecosystem. Data displayed in your Community portal reflects records from a Sales Cloud organization
    • Highly customizable. A Community Cloud portal can be totally customized both visually and with different funcionalities with little to no coding skills required
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    Cons
    Bloomfire
    • I would recommend adding a feature to combine different posts/series by job title (so in addition to the Revenue Ops category, there could be a structured walkthrough for Revenue Manager).
    • Live Q+A sessions for group onboarding initiatives.
    • Ability to label bookmarks by priority/job type.
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    Salesforce
    • The documentation for implementing Experience Cloud can be a bit confusing as their rebranding hasn't made it's way into all articles, resulting in different terminology being used to refer to the same thing
    • Some things are not as intuitive regarding their customizability, so there's a bit of a learning curve (i.e. Lightning apps can't be used to customize layouts in Experience Cloud)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomfire
    Most likely we will renew, our team needs a refresher on possible opportunities to advance our usage and learning of opportunities to move this answer to a 10, can't live without it.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Bloomfire
    Bloomfire is an easy-to-use platform for posting information and asking questions of my peers. It also has a user-friendly search capability. Yet like any other CMS, the secret to success rests in such items as the ability to use metadata to tag content or posts, and Bloomfire provides a wide range of options to make posting content and subsequently searching for it.
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    Salesforce
    Usability is pretty streamlined, especially if you're familiar with other Salesforce products, but even if not, take it from me, as I just entered the technological space about two years ago, that this product is pretty simple to learn. You don't have to jump in with your head underwater. Small wins and learnings along the way are what foster long-term understandings and enable your evolution alongside the product. I definitely recommend Salesforce Trailhead along with it
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    Performance
    Bloomfire
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    It's delivered on our original requirements and we've found ways to grow its usage. We continue to build on our original success and we can report our data out to leadership to show a true return on investment which is great for growing support and expanding uses for the system.
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    Support Rating
    Bloomfire
    I have not needed to pose questions to the support team yet, as it is a very simple piece of software to use, however, its help documents and the bot ready to answer questions let me know I am in good hands. The help center could load a little quicker, but that's my only complaint.
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    Salesforce
    We have weekly calls with our Salesforce reps. They bring new ideas to the table and help with taxonomy builds. They have also answered many questions and connected us to the right people for us to grow our knowledge and utilization of the platform. They are a good partner overall in comparison.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomfire
    I like Bloomfire because it is more concise with the work I do whereas Google search engine would provide broader information. It has just been so user-friendly, and easier to use [than] I could have imagined. I would use this program over any other that I have tried in the past.
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    Salesforce
    I have used Datatel/Colleague/Recruiter before. There were issues because only one person at the institution was able to have the student's record open at a time. This was problematic when collaboration between departments was necessary especially in the case of admissions, financial aid, and registration. We also had to do our work and then log out before asking a questions of another department. Sometimes simultaneous use was necessary. However, this was years ago and they may have since updated the program.
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    Return on Investment
    Bloomfire
    • Feedback from users in being able to perform transactions for members has greatly improved.
    • There has been an increase in engagement of material presented in posts by learners in training classes.
    • Reps and agents say they feel confident they can easily locate information if ever there is a need on the front line.
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    Salesforce
    • Improved online admission application completion rates from mid-60%s to mid-80%s.
    • Positive user experience from start-to-finish to leverage one data system for all prospective student data
    • Fewer data integrations transforming and loading sensitive student data by leveraging Salesforce Community Cloud to access already existing data
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Bloomfire Screenshots

    Screenshot of You are provided with a variety of options to brand your Bloomfire community, such as customizing its colors, displaying your organization’s logo, and building a custom Promo Bar. This creates an aesthetic that truly reflects your company’s culture.Screenshot of Bloomfire features an AI-powered search that makes sharing and searching for information a lot easier. It deep indexes every word in each piece of content, regardless of whether it’s a PDF, slide deck, video, or any other file type. The platform also creates tags for your content automatically. And if a video is uploaded, Bloomfire automatically transcribes it, making the spoken words searchable and allowing users to jump to the exact part of a video where certain keywords appear.

All of those features result in an easy and smart searching experience. There’s no need to navigate through folders or guess file names. All you need to do is perform a search like you would with Google. When searching, you can further narrow down your results based on categories such as author and content type.Screenshot of Bloomfire's AI enables you to search and find the video you are looking for based on its audio contents.Screenshot of Use Bloomfire while you work seamlessly across your favorite apps.