Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization vs. Microsoft Dynamics 365

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.7 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
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a CRM providing sales, marketing, and service functionality. It is offered as SaaS and on-premise. Dynamics 365 is part of the larger Dynamics suite of business intelligence and ERP products.
$44
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMicrosoft Dynamics 365
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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
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Single, connected solution. Support app and mobile communications out the box. Built-in analysis and analytics.
Microsoft Dynamics 365

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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
56 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365
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WYSIWYG email editor8.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.852 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages6.525 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing7.854 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.145 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting7.655 Ratings00 Ratings
List management7.844 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.538 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
43 Ratings
4% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365
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Lead nurturing automation8.736 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading8.137 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management7.240 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks8.519 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.9
38 Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365
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Calendaring8.435 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.527 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.0
33 Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365
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Social sharing and campaigns7.728 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration8.220 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.3
56 Ratings
0% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365
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Dashboards7.256 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.153 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.853 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.0
84 Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics 365
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API7.779 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.140 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability7.847 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Third-party software integrations8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics 365
6.9
70 Ratings
11% below category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.069 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.067 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings6.051 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings7.063 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.066 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings6.048 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.060 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings6.051 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
6.7
55 Ratings
12% below category average
Case management00 Ratings6.051 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.045 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.049 Ratings
Marketing Automation
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Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics 365
7.5
67 Ratings
1% below category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.061 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
CRM Project Management
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
8.3
64 Ratings
9% above category average
Task management00 Ratings8.059 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings9.053 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
7.0
65 Ratings
8% below category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.055 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings5.061 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.064 Ratings
Customization
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
7.8
67 Ratings
4% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.165 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.060 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.052 Ratings
Security
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
6.5
62 Ratings
24% below category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings7.056 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings6.057 Ratings
Social CRM
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
7.5
37 Ratings
2% above category average
Social data00 Ratings8.036 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings7.037 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
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Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics 365
6.5
56 Ratings
12% below category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings7.056 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings6.029 Ratings
Platform
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Microsoft Dynamics 365
7.0
48 Ratings
5% below category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMicrosoft Dynamics 365
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(147 ratings)
5.6
(90 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(8 ratings)
8.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
5.6
(20 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(15 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
7.4
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(110 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(4 ratings)
9.2
(4 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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3.8
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(15 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
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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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Microsoft
Provides our company access to manage and customize the folds tailored to our needs. We needed to have certain paragraphs on certain paperwork per customer. MD 365 has those options to customize where needed and remove when not. The system is easy to navigate, and training can be done in a matter of days, even without prior knowledge of the system or similar systems.
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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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Microsoft
  • Best to use for AP - like in our organization, there are plenty of AP bills, so with Dynamics, we can quickly enter the same into the Excel utility, which means CSV-based upload, and then we can easily upload the same to the software. It's a time saver.
  • Best for Bank reconciliation - MS Dynamics makes Bank reconciliation easy. Banks can easily sync with software and easily get reconciled.
  • Generating invoices to customers and directly sending them to their inbox is easy with this software.
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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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Microsoft
  • Small learning curve, obviously. You won't figure this out in a day, a week, or even a month. But given time, you can learn to be an expert. Or you can always get a consultant or hire in somebody. But learning the tool isn't out of the questions by any means.
  • Licensing can be confusing at times and isn't cheap, but it is cheaper than Salesforce. Plus no additional fees for data calls to better integrate your D365 CE data with other systems.
  • The Classic user interface left a bit to be desired, but now with the much-improved Unified Interface, the web client and the mobile client look the same, much more modern, and have more flexibility and power behind them for customizers as well.
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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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Microsoft
CRM has allowed us to keep all of our data in one place that is easy for all users within the company to view. I came into the company after they had been using CRM for about 4 years. They have all said that since we have used this it has helped us control work processes better, it has allowed us to be able to track things so much better, and has been something that has helped unite many processes that used to be all over the place. We are currently using CRM 4.0 and are planning on upgrading in the next 18 months to the 2011 version. Support for 4.0 is almost all but dried up. Understandably so. Some of the customization we have done, and a plugins we use, are now contained within the 2011 version so we are looking forward to that upgrade. We use an email marketing company as well, and they primarily support the 2011 version, but their product connects and is integrated within CRM. This is a great benefit as well so that all of our marketing information can be contained in one location.
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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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Microsoft
The usability is easily adopted for users familiar with other Microsoft products. Dynamics 365 has several interfaces that cross over browsers and tablets. These multiple interfaces will be phased out and updated to a single unified interface eventually to provide the same usability across all devices. The backend configurations is slowly improving with the introduction of PowerApps compared to pre-D365 Online versions
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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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Microsoft
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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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Microsoft
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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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Microsoft
Our partner, Ledgeview Partners has been FANTASTIC to work with. They are always timely in their response and have taken time to understand our business and our specific needs. We've made a lot of advanced customizations and they have been a great help in making those updates.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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Microsoft
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Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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Microsoft
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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Microsoft
We used a data warehouse to house our data, and our IT team and implementation vendor worked diligently ahead of time to construct idea implementation plans. Out of millions of records- we had less than a dozen errors, which is remarkable. My major insight is simply having a group of completely devoted individuals working towards your goal who fully understand the desired outcome. Focused resources for implementation season are critical to success.
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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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Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics was part of a system overhaul for a local school, and we looked at many products. If we had used it for a company with low turnover, then it might have been more feasible. They needed something a new person could learn quickly, someone who might also be learning marketing terms at the same time - especially if there is nobody to train the individual now expected to know the system. Similar issues occurred with all of these programs (we called it being too big for their britches), and one of the bigger things we liked was that it is more compatible with MS Office products in both technical and visual appeal. If you have a steady employees who use a CRM consistently, low turnover, and those who are very familiar with Office products, Dynamics would be the smartest option for you. Unfortunately, this was just not true for the school environment
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Bloomreach
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Microsoft
On our purchase, I'd been interrogated about our usage. Our needs are met by Microsoft Dynamics 365, which is simple to use. With so much data and information available, we must ensure that it is presented correctly to managers. Due to a lack of use, we don't have to spend as much money on Salesforce.
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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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Microsoft
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Professional Services
Bloomreach
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Microsoft
My company's preferred program right now is Microsoft Dynamics 365. We use it to keep track of customers and important sales metrics in a streamlined manner. Anyone familiar with CRMs will find the tool extremely useful. Considering that we have a good turnover, this product will be used for its basic segments. As a result, there are few chances of error with Microsoft dynamics because it is so easy to use. Many options for recording data on these leads are available. It meets our needs and pays off.
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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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Microsoft
  • For those without a centralized, all in one solution for major HR, Finance and other departments, Microsoft Dynamics 365 has vastly improved employee time utilization and profit.
  • Migrating clients from on-premise to the cloud has reaped benefits including better security, no unscheduled downtime and frequent updates to functionality.
  • Those transferring from cheaper solutions have lost money in the aim to be better integrated with other Microsoft products and AI they don't really utilize.
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ScreenShots

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