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    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

    Score8.3 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

    Braze

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies.N/A
    Pricing
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationBraze
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsBloomreach 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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    Community Pulse
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationBraze
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomreach
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Bloomreach is robust product that benefits from steady investment and some good experience. It lacks some of the latest automations and has a cost structure that is hard to manage and monitor. It is not user friendly but does accomplish most of the tasks we want to complete …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Blows all competitors out of the water
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    On Par. Again, I am very new to Bloomreach Engagement.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud provided a more competitive licensing arrangement and their ability to integrate our source data was the best. They were also the most willing to complete a POC with us; the other two vendors were very lethargic and eventually denied our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    The support was much stronger and the sales process far more straightforward.

    We moved from Emarsys which was a poor platform
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    Braze
    Chose Braze
    Braze is by far the most user friendly tool. The frequency and usability of the super regular product releases they roll out really sets them apart in a stale marketplace historically dominated by Salesforce, Adobe and other big players. They think App first - critical in the …
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    Chose Braze
    Braze and Iterable stood out as the best two customer engagement tools for us, but the level of support and out-of-the-box features offered by Braze pipped them slightly ahead of the competition. Overall, they showed the tool as the best solution we needed, specifically to our …
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    Chose Braze
    Braze has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to Bloomreach and Hubspot. Personally I prefer Bloomreach for lifecycle journey and orchestration however I've felt integration and scaling to be more straightforward with Braze. Other platforms have been reviewed but for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Braze
    Braze is an organization fit given the nature of the business, But Salesforce Marketing Cloud could also be very useful, it just require a lot more enablement.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    127 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    111 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    98 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    82 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    128 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    110 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    65 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    88 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    64 Answers
    Features
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    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Braze
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.9
    56 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Braze
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.751 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.852 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.951 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages6.425 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.345 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Braze
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.3
    43 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Braze
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    Lead nurturing automation8.936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.440 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks8.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Braze
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    38 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Braze
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    Calendaring8.635 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.627 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Braze
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    33 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Braze
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    Social sharing and campaigns7.828 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration8.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Braze
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.5
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Braze
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    Dashboards7.456 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.253 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.053 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Braze
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Braze
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    API7.879 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.340 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.428 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationBraze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (147 ratings)
    9.2
    (82 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    8.9
    (49 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.4
    (14 ratings)
    -
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    Bloomreach Customer Support
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (110 ratings)
    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
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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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    Braze
    Braze is a fantastic tool if you're looking to build a large number of CRM journeys using complex canvas structures and maximising use of customer data to segment and personalise. There are numerous tools to ensure each channel is maximising impact and engagement. Braze offers great features for testing, managing message frequency and control groups and using dynamic attributes and liquid code. If you're looking to limit your use to single-send campaigns with no or few automations, I don't think this is the right tool. From my experience, many Braze users also use external tools for analytics rather than Braze's native analytics.
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    Pros
    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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    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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    Cons
    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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    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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    Usability
    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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    Braze
    It is an easy-to-understand platform, thanks to its design and accessibility. You can, for example, easily find any users and their data, check exact volumes of segments, follow the history of messages sent, and create reports. We can connect Braze with other platforms for analysis or email design (Snowflake, Hightouch, Stripo...).
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    Reliability and Availability
    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
    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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    Braze
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    Support Rating
    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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    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    In-Person Training
    Bloomreach
    The team was really helpful in explaining
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    Braze
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    Online Training
    Bloomreach
    It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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    Implementation Rating
    Bloomreach
    None it went smoothly
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Braze
    Braze is just the best one when it comes to aesthetics and usability, which matter when you're working every day, making complex or even simple changes to highly contextual campaigns for multiple stakeholders. Even without following tutorials, you just get it instantly and start crafting journeys very quickly. And they continue to keep adding new features at a rapid pace, so credit where it's due.
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    Scalability
    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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    Braze
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Braze
    • We are currently trying to reduce churn of our members, numbers are stable but not as good as they could be.
    • We have achieved well in the upselling of our products, and expect to see a good proportion of revenue from this at the end of the year.
    • Higher engagement in our app work, performing much better than email. Keeping things interactive really helps.
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    ScreenShots

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    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